Creating Passion-driven Teams: How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance (Kindle Edition)

by Dan Bobinski (Author), Gary Harpst (Foreword)

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Product Description

Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right conditions for his plants to flourish.

Make your job easier. Get the inside scoop on the secrets of success that motivate teams to top performance. In the matrix of workplace roles and responsibilities, managers are pivotal to corporate success. Yet a manager is often the unsung hero who must adapt to demands from all sides--and do so with little or no training, and without mentorship for the role. Learn from Dan Bobinski, who draws from 20 years of consulting experience, extensive studies of best practices, and the latest in neuroscience research.

You'll learn the principles and methods top managers use to develop passionate, engaged employees who are dedicated to success. You'll be able to:

* Motivate without manipulating
* Turn mistakes into a fervent drive for quality
* Equip teams to enthusiastically adapt to change
* Create environments in which people strive for excellence--and more

Today's workforce requires managers to be more than just a person in charge. Creating Passion-Driven Teams show you how to tap your team's natural motivations and achieve consistent, sustained top performance.

About the Author

Dan Bobinski is the president and CEO of Leadership Development, Inc., and director at the Center for Workplace Excellence. For more than 20 years Dan has coached and trained managers and leaders in the Fortune 500 as well as small and mid-sized businesses. His Workplace-Excellence blog has been listed among the top 100 daily must-reads for entrepreneurs, and his newspaper column on workplace issues is syndicated internationally. Dan is a passionate speaker and trainer on management topics, and he holds a master's degree in human resource training and development as well as a BS in workforce education and development. Dan lives in Boise, Idaho.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Publisher: Career Press (June 20, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002BDTS7U
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,770 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great on many levels..., August 31, 2009

By	Jason R. Miller (Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Creating Passion-Driven Teams: How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance (Paperback)

I really loved this book and wished it was standard reading years ago while getting my business degree.
It brought important issues with the creation of teams that work, and more importantly, the facilitation of these teams. The fact is, a business degree doesn't come with experience. In fact, most of the college ciriculum in management is built on theories that have worked years past in an environment that no longer exists. Much of that does not include team building.

This book really goes into the aspects that work, experience that has a weight to it, along with some common sense.

Thanks!

Jason

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book on How to do it, July 18, 2009

By	Debra D. Murray "Blue Spring Wellness Owner" (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Creating Passion-Driven Teams: How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance (Paperback)

I have read many books on business and agree with the "Good to Great" premise of the importance of getting the right people on the bus. But I still did not know how to do it in my own business. I found Dan Bobinski a couple of years ago and he began teaching us how to get the right people in the right place and train them on what to do, then how to review their performance. This has produced happier team members. His new book "Creating Passion Diven Teams" lived up to my expectations and more. As an employer I am still learning how to get the conditions right - the more steps I take towards this - the more passionate people I find in my workplace. This books teachs me what I should do to make this happen and reminds me of what I already know and am not doing. I highly recommend it for any business owner who wants to get out of micro-managing and someday have some peace. I have recommended this to other business owners and purchased 10 copies for my team members. Investing in passionate team members will bring a great ROI for my company - I am already starting to see that after practicing some of these principles for a few years.

5.0 out of 5 stars Changes How You Think, January 28, 2010

By	Gary Harpst - See all my reviews

I believe in this book so much that I wrote a "forward" to it. I gave a lot of thought to my reaction to that book so I quote it here:
"In the information age, we have shifted to an economy that is primarily service based. A service-based economy's primary assets are people and their innate ability to identify and solve problems - to innovate with purpose. In this "how to" book, Dan highlights the almost unlimited upside to unlocking the potential of individuals and teams working toward common goals.
When reading a book, I first peruse the table of contents to get a sense of what is covered. When looking at the table of contents in this book, my first reaction was "this looks like a bunch of familiar topics." When I started reading, however, I found myself drinking deeply from his principles and examples, and realizing how far I had to go to provide the kind of environment that enables and unlocks the capability of the people around me -- and even myself.
I whole heartedly recommend Creating Passion-Driven Teams. For some, it will be an eye opener to things you have not really thought about. For others, it will provide a much needed reminder of things you say you believe in, but aren't doing. Either way, the practices Dan describes need to become habits for all of us."

If you manage people, read it - you'll be glad you did!