Positive Performance Improvement: A New Paradigm for Optimizing Your Workforce

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.

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.