The Top Performer's Guide to Change: Overcoming Fear to Turn Change into Opportunity - Softcover

Ursiny Ph.D., Tim; Kay, Barbara A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402207735 ISBN 13: 9781402207730

Publisher: Sourcebooks, 2006

Synopsis

Top performers just like you face change every day. In our fast-paced business world, you must know how to adapt to change quickly and seamlessly.

The Top Performer's Guide to Change is your essential change handbook, giving you the tools you need to manage change and come out on top. Discover:

• Why you must know how to handle change
• How to increase your "luck" in changing times
• What dangers lurk in every change
• How to adapt and take charge
• Secrets to impacting and leading others
• Tools to guide you during change

Top performers are champions of change. You are just a short read away from mastering this essential skill.

About this title

About the Authors

Tim Ursiny, PhD, is a success coach and the author of The Confidence Plan (Sourcebooks, 2005) and The Coward’s Guide to Conflict (Sourcebooks, 2003). Gary DeMoss is the author of Making the Client Connection (Dearborn, 2004) and The Financial Professional’s Guide to Persuading 1 or 1,000.

Barbara Kay is an executive coach and trainer with Advantage Coaching & Training. She combines her business and professional psychology background to bring excellence, achievement, growth, and fulfillment to individuals and organizations. Barbara coaches individuals, entrepreneurs, and executives to develop their talents and energize their success. In her work with large and small organizations, Barbara trains teams in a wide variety of areas including communication, coaching, conflict, and change. Her goal is to develop dynamic, fun, and powerful teams. She has published articles in professional publications and speaks for corporate groups and professional associations. The Top Performer’s Guide to Change is Barbara’s first book. In her free time, Barbara volunteers in her church and enjoys family time with her husband, Bob, and sons, Tom, William, and Charles.

From the Back Cover

?Change Is Not an Obstacle, It's an Opportunity
Top performers just like you face change every day. In our fast-paced business world, you must know how to adapt to change quickly and seamlessly.
The Top Performer's Guide to Change is your essential change handbook, giving you the tools you need to manage change and come out on top. Discover:
--Why you must know how to handle change
--How to increase your ?luck? in changing times
--What dangers lurk in every change
--How to adapt and take charge
--Secrets to impacting and leading others
--Tools to guide you during change
Top performers are champions of change.
You are just a short read away from mastering this essential skill.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

?Chapter 1

Why Top Performers Must Know How to Deal with Change

"Nothing endures but change."
―Heraclitus

How do you feel when something in your life shifts dramatically? People differ greatly when it comes to their reaction to change. Some people love it; they thrive on new opportunities and events. Other people hate the twists and turns of change; they are most content when everything stays the same.

What kind of person are you? Do you roll with the punches pretty well? Do you find that new situations and events bring variety and excitement? Or are you more unsettled by change? Perhaps transitions are difficult and you feel disrupted when your routine is disturbed.

If you don't know, think about how you felt the last time that you were surprised by an announcement of change at work, got a new project, or shifted to another boss. Did you find yourself thinking about the future and new opportunities, or feeling loss or fear over what changed?

Edition details

• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402207735
• ISBN 13: 9781402207730
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128