Powerful Leadership Books
It is not enough to send people to leadership training. Leaders must learn to maximize team performance to drive business improvement. These books show how leaders improved their business by first creating high-performing, engaged and empowered teams. New Reality provides the key ingredients that these authors have learned and show you how to get similar results.
Below are suggested books or articles that have influenced or align with the New Reality Leadership approach.
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Outlaws to In-Laws
Download a free story to see how one team transformed from a chaotic, haphazard team to a high-performing team and the impact they had on the overall business performance. Transforming a team to improve business operations and performance does not always require huge costs and complicated processes. New Reality shows how to improve the most important leadership approaches and employee development to significantly improve the business and performance. Read stories of how the new reality approach impacted businesses.
Dynamic and Effective Virtual Training
Our world has gone virtual. Meetings, training, and Education. Learn how to transform your online sessions using simple tips and tools. Dynamic and Effective Virtual Training contains 31 strategies to maximize any online experience. Pick a couple ideas at a time to apply and then add a new approach for additional sessions. Available on Amazon The Two-Minute Facilitator
The Two-Minute Facilitator lists 21 keys to training success. These tips work for live or virtual training. We found these tips make the most difference between poor/average training and exceptional training. These tips can be incorporated by anyone easily; you do not have to be a professional trainer. Here is a preview and we would love your feedback as we finalize and publish it.
It's Your Ship
Captain Abrashoff was assigned to the worst ship in the Navy and turned it into the best ship in the Navy. He describes his approach. While NRL was created before seeing this book, the NRL content strongly supports the same approach and prescribes the same vision as Abrashoff. We suggest having leaders read the book as you create or update your vision. Then, use the NRL process to help shift leader thinking in ways to create the culture described in the book. We also suggest reading his next book called It's Our Ship. Originally, Abrashoff was always trying to out do the other ships. NRL prescribes learning and then helping other leaders or sites learn along with you. Abrashoff realized this short coming and talks about it in his sequel.
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Good to Great
Good to Great compares 15 pairs of companies and deciphers why one of the comparison companies succeeded and the other one either failed or had much lower financial success. NRL looked at these key distinctions and found that many of the NRL case studies related to one or more of these characteristics. Since the book was written, a number of the stronger companies have since declined. In some cases, they disregarded the very things that made them great. NRL has created a study guide of 11 key topics from the book that leaders can use to supplement their development.
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4 Disciplines of Execution
The Covey organization created a succinct, powerful process called 4 Disciplines of Execution. It is a proven process to use very engaged, empowered employees to apply a 4 step process that accelerates business improvement. NRL provides the foundational leadership mindsets that allows the 4D managing process to make a huge difference in your organization. Covey has many great resources you may want to review. A key concept of the 4D process is to understand the difference between the everyday Whirlwind of things that must be done to the longer term goals needed to drive continuous improvement. NRL provides tools and concepts to help teams make shifts in focus to ensure they balance the important, longer term goals while dealing with the demanding day-to-day urgent tasks.
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Uncontainable
Kip Tindell is the CEO of The Container Store. The Container Store is a publicly owned retail chain. Many publicly owned companies focus first on the shareholder and are often short-term profit focused. The Container Store has a different philosophy. They invest highly in employees first who then drive customer satisfaction which in turn improves the shareholders return. NRL believes that companies must invest strongly in the employee through development, engagement, and empowerment. These employees will then own the work and bring their best to the team each day. While cost focus may drive short term upward results, only by following the principles in Uncontainable, which also align with NRL, will a company be successful longer term.
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Mentor Leader
Tony Dungy, professional football coach, discusses the mentoring approach he used with his teams. Mentoring takes coaching to a deeper level requiring a stronger time and energy commitment. Tony describes how he practically applied key principles that drove player and team improvements and were crucial for their overall success. The combined modules and perspectives of NRL align with his approach and are the puzzle pieces needed to strengthen your coaching and mentoring approach to drive your business improvement.
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Love 'em or Lose 'em
With every employee who walks out the door costing the company up to 200 percent of their annual salary to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. This international bestseller gives everyone from the CEO to the front-line supervisor solutions for keeping the employees they simply can't afford to lose. Love 'Em or Lose 'Em shows that what employees really want-even more than costly added perks like bigger salaries-are meaningful work, opportunities for growth, excellent bosses, and a sense of connectedness to the group. They offer 26 strategies-from A to Z-that managers can use to keep their star employees' on the team. This revised edition includes new tips, "to do" lists, stories, and new research.
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