The performance curve : maximize your potential at work while strengthening your well-being / Laura Watkins, Vanessa Dietzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Laura, author.

Dietzel, Vanessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success in business.

Employee motivation.

Work-life balance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Business, [2021]

Summary:

Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022 Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond - to achieve our goals, rise to challenges and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance, while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a ground-breaking guide to success and happiness in both work and life. Rather than telling you what to do, this book allows you to come up with a roadmap for evolving your inner operating system (your mindsets, emotions and habits) for your unique circumstances. Crucially, this book explores both how you can improve individual performance and how to build relationships and cultures that bring out the best others. By interweaving individual and collective development, this approach is transformational for building leadership and organizational performance. The Performance Curve is a powerful combination of neuroscience, psychological research and practical guidance. These concepts are then brought to life through the stories of remarkable individuals from different sectors, including business, the arts, academia and not-for-profits. Laura Watkins and Vanessa Dietzel draw upon their vast experience and research as consultants and leadership coaches to deliver a ground-breaking guide to enhancing your performance in your life and career.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction: Redefining performance: the virtuous circle of effectiveness and well-being

What you will get from this book

About the authors

Chapter 1: Which curve are you on?

The boom-and-bust curve

The performance curve

The three performance curve catalysts: wisdom, fuel and connection

Part 1: The Wisdom Catalyst

Chapter 2: Working with your inner ­operating system: mindsets, emotions and habits

The wisdom catalyst of the performance curve

What to find in the chapters of Part 1: wisdom catalyst

Our brain and the inner operating system

Working with the building blocks of our inner operating system

The iceberg: from mindsets and emotions to behaviours and results

Chapter 3: Taking charge of the hidden drivers of your brain

Protect-explore modes: who is that behind the steering wheel?

Why are brain modes so important for the performance curve?

The 'hidden drivers' of protect and explore modes

Have a say in who gets to be in the driving seat

Chapter 4: The secret of vertical development

Why does vertical development matter?

The path of vertical development

How developing vertically helps us get in the driving seat of our brains

How can we deliberately go vertical?

Chapter 5: Mastering the three performance curve mindsets

The accountable mindset

The growth mindset

The big picture mindset

How to nurture the three mindsets in ourselves and others

Part 2: The Fuel Catalyst

Chapter 6: Sustaining the continuous development of your operating system

The fuel catalyst of the performance curve

What to find in the chapters of Part 2: fuel catalyst

How habits drive us and can help on the performance curve

How to build sticky habits.

Chapter 7: Performance curve habits: small things, big difference

The five channels for performance curve habits

How to select your repertoire of performance curve habits

How to make performance curve habits part of your life

Helping others build self-awareness and self-management

Chapter 8: Get purpose-fu(e)l

Why is purpose important for the performance curve?

What makes for a high-fuel purpose?

How to identify a high-fuel purpose

Translate your purpose into reality

Build 'habits of purpose'

Chapter 9: Harnessing the power of paradox

Defining paradoxical thinking

Why does paradoxical thinking provide fuel?

A beautiful paradox

Practising paradoxical thinking: five steps

Part 3: The Connection Catalyst

Chapter 10: Going far and fast, together

The connection catalyst of the performance curve

What to find in the chapters of Part 3: connection catalyst

How emotional bond helps us move on the performance curve

The source of emotional bond: vulnerability and empathy

The basis for vulnerability and empathy: socio-emotional cognition

How to build more emotional bond

Chapter 11: Developmental relationships in action

The essence of developmental relationships: emotional bond and stretch

What happens when we lack emotional bond or stretch?

How to build developmental relationships: developmental conversations

Chapter 12: Building performance curve cultures

The three mindsets of performance curve cultures

Building habits of a performance curve culture

Role modelling a performance curve culture

Using training to cultivate a performance curve culture

Chapter 13: Close: using the three catalysts in your daily life

The catalyst toolkit for challenging situations

The performance curve at the systemic level

Closing words

Acknowledgements

Notes.

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472985514

1472985516

9781472985521

1472985524

OCLC:

1273977364