Positive Performance Improvement: A New Paradigm for Optimizing Your Workforce - Hardcover

Richard F. Gerson; Robbie G. Gerson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891062033 ISBN 13: 9780891062035

Publisher: UNKNO, 2006

Synopsis

For more than 25 years, this husband-and-wife author team has been leading the way in building performance improvement programs that put the focus squarely on the most important element of any initiative: the individual worker. In Positive Performance Improvement, they bring together the best in research with real-life examples from their years of work in the field to dispel the prevailing myths that limit the success of many of today's efforts to improve performance. They help uncover the clues to what drives an individual's success and present a unique Talent Optimization Performance System that makes their Positive CORE model both tactical and practical in any coaching, performance appraisal, or ongoing performance management situation.

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About the Author

Richard Gerson, Ph.D., is president of The HEAD Coaching Institute, a coaching firm specializing in using sport and performance psychology techniques to increase the effectiveness of people and organizations. He is also president of Gerson Goodson, Inc., a training and consulting firm specializing in performance management and improvement. Author of nineteen books and hundreds of articles, he is a Certified Performance Technologist and recently received a lifetime achievement award from the Tampa Bay Chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement.

Robbie G. Gerson, MSM, PHR, is executive vice president and managing partner of Gerson Goodson, Inc., and heads up the human resources consulting practice of the firm. Bringing more than twenty years of experience in human resources and performance management to her clients, she coaches executives and leaders on ways to enhance their leadership skills, improve the performance of their direct reports, and generate increased productivity from their teams and organizations.

From the Back Cover

Master the Psychology of Performance Improvement

Turn your human performance technology "system" into a human-focused, continuous performance improvement effort by putting people at the very center of what you do. POSITIVE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT draws together the latest research, a dynamic new model, questionnaires and exercises, and rich examples of how these powerful concepts and tools have helped workers everywhere achieve high levels of performance and success. Here is a fresh, new approach to enhancing performance, coaching performers, conducting a performance management program, and increasing organizational effectiveness through individual achievements.

"Guarantee performance? Only the Gersons could conceive it and deliver it. This book is the new standard for performance improvement." --Roger Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida State University; Distinguished Research Professor, Sonora Institute of Technology; Director, Roger Kaufman & Associates

"A novel, commonsense approach to enhancing performance by focusing on strengths. I encourage all HPT professionals to embrace this new paradigm." --Susan Delp, President, Positive Performance Partners, LLC

"Stresses performance improvement through what people do best, not what they do worst, and requires that performance be directed to benefit society, not just the individuals involved. These two philosophies offer potential success in a field saturated with failed prescriptions." --Dr. Alan Balfour, Chair, Department of Management, College of Business, and Director, Graduate Leadership Program, University of South Florida

From the Inside Flap

Presenting a simple yet effective new way to improve performance, POSITIVE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT veers away from the prevailing focus on fixing what is wrong with workers and the workplace today--performance gaps, personal deficiencies, weaknesses in core strengths. Instead, it zeros in on what can make the most dramatic impact and ensure long-lasting improvement:

* Start with the individual--the most critical yet most often overlooked component in any human performance technology intervention * Focus on the psychology rather than the technology of performance improvement * Build on what is right about the individual's successes, experiences, and relationships * Pay attention to motives and values, performance rituals, and the ability to perform under stress

Drawing on the latest research in positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, and sport psychology, authors Gerson and Gerson introduce important building blocks for creating strong relationships; questionnaires and assessments to help uncover clues to what drives an individual's success; and a Talent Optimization Performance System that makes their Positive CORE model both tactical and practical in any coaching, performance appraisal, or ongoing performance management situation.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891062033
• ISBN 13: 9780891062035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160