High Performance Leadership: Creating, Leading and Living in a High Performance World - Softcover

Winter, Graham

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9780470820810: High Performance Leadership: Creating, Leading and Living in a High Performance World

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ISBN 10: 0470820810 ISBN 13: 9780470820810

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

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Olympic sports present a vivid example of how to achieve world-class performance through a special blend of management, teamwork and individual performance.
Based on a hugely successful leadership and team development process which has been tested in over 50 organisations (and licensed by PwC), Performance Leadership aims to give leaders the world class skills and tools required to win in today's dynamic business environment.
Case examples include the inside story of how the highly successful Australian swimming team reaped their haul of medals at the Sydney Olympics.
Graham Winter was Head of Psychology Services to the 2000 Australian Olympic Team, and is a PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant. He has authored an extensive business training and development process linked to his Business Athlete concept.

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High Performance Leadership is a fascinating journey inside the world of high performance programs.

Using vivid examples and interviews from one of the world's most successful Olympic sport systems; an Everest expedition; medical retrieval; special military forces and numerous businesses, Graham Winter - three-times Chief Psychologist for the Australian Olympic Team and international business consultant - reveals in step-by-step models, tools and techniques on how the best leaders create high performance cultures.

Based on the High Performance Leadership Program - licensed for five years by PwC Consulting - this is a powerful, proven and easy-to-implement approach to leadership that is essential in the fast and competitive business environment of the 21st century.

Chief executives, managers, team leaders and business owners will all learn how to:

Create a culture in which success is inevitable
Apply the techniques of the Olympic Coach to their own program
Design a dynamic performance model that every person in his or her organization can embrace.

High Performance Leadership combines the excitement and graphic examples of high performance worlds with the practical on-the-ground tools and techniques needed to get immediate business results.

It will capture your imagination and give you the performance language and tools needed to bring others with you on the high performance journey.

About the Author

Graham Winter is an organizational psychologist, consultant, speaker and author with a track record of success in working with high performers in business, sport and other high performance areas.

He is three-times Chief Psychologist for the world-acclaimed Australian Olympic Team (including Sydney 2000), a former Managing Consultant with two of the biggest international consulting firms, and a Director of Strategize, a leading-edge boutique consultancy providing high performance leadership programmes for organizations, teams and individuals.

Through an alliance with PwC Consulting, he has enjoyed the opportunity to work closely with many of the top business leaders and teams in the Asia Pacific Region and has refined the High Performance Leadership Programme on which this book is based.

Graham is a thought leader in how to create and sustain high performance cultures.

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