getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes.Great coaches lead the most productive corporate work teams. These special managers guide their team members to superior performance by conducting regular "coaching conversations" and consistently providing developmental feedback. Drawing from more than five years of research involving 2,000 managers and employees, performance improvement specialist Brian Souza teaches leaders how to engage in regular, constructive discussions with their team members. He believes managers can consistently get more out of their teams if they adopt the right approach. Souza uses a popular business book device - the fable - to create two entertaining, recognizable characters who convey his ideas in a readable, instructive way. All words of wisdom - and silliness - come from the characters, not the author's direct instruction. getAbstract recommends Souza's pragmatic advice to aspiring leaders, newly promoted managers and experienced executives - in short, any leader who seeks to elevate team performance. Book Publisher: ProductivityDrivers

This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.

Mediterranean Europe - southern Portugal and Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece and the Mediterranean islands - is often interpreted as a Lost Eden, once verdant and fertile, then progressively degraded and desertified by human mismanagement and the ignorance and folly of successive civilizations. In this ecological history, two scholars seek to challenge this pessimistic view.

Based on data and insights from over 100k virtual and in-person coaching conversations conducted by the talented coaches of BTS Coach, comes the first book to take BTS Coach's evidence-based coaching process to a mass audience. In a concise, easy-to-understand manner, the book reveals 4 mindsets (Be, Relate, Think, Inspire) that are most critical for individuals to experience deep, meaningful change, along with the process and tools for sparking their own powerful conversations to get the best out of themselves and those around them.

Collection of essays explore shared services in the human resources environment.

Improve performance. Transform productivity. Change lives. Whether your team is in an office, on a field, in a classroom, or in your living room -- have you ever thought they had more to give, but you weren't quite sure how to get it out of them? Have you ever wanted them to play up to their potential, but didn't quite know how to make it happen? Are you looking for that one new idea, that one simple strategy that will take your career and your team's performance to the next level? If so, "The Weekly Coaching Conversation" is definitely the book for you. Every once in a while a book like this comes along with a message so simple--yet so profound--it literally changes people's lives. In a story as inspiring as it is informative, bestselling author Brian Souza reveals the secrets to unleashing a person's potential. Introducing a groundbreaking, yet easy-to-apply model that's backed by rigorous research, "The Weekly Coaching Conversation" gives leaders the playbook to turbocharge any team's performance.