5 Steps to Expert: How to Go from Business Novice to Elite Performer. This item is unavailable.5 Steps to Expert: How to Go from Business Novice to Elite Performer

Every elite performer—from Tiger Woods to Richard Branson—begins their journey to mastery at the beginning: establishing a set of deliberate practice activities that are tightly coordinated and focused sequentially on improving specific aspects of performance, one step at a time. Drawing from the latest, breakthrough research of the characteristics that define expert or elite performers, 5 Steps to Expert provides a detailed roadmap for anyone who aspires to advance from their present level of competence to a higher level of performance and the leaders, managers, and HR coaches charged with improving individual competence and organizational competitiveness.

Paul G. Schempp, PhD, president of Performance Matters, Inc., is a professional speaker, consultant, author, and scholar. A noted authority on expertise development, he has applied research to practice in designing performance programs for business and sports organizations; he also coaches individual golfers on the PGA, LPGA, and European and Canadian professional tours. Schempp has served as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and taught at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. Named the 2004 Distinguished Scholar by the International Center for Performance Excellence, he appears frequently on television and radio and is scientific consultant to Golf Digest. Schempp is also a professor at the University of Georgia.