Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest: Coaching Secrets for Life and Work - Softcover

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SCOTT BLANCHARD is a founder of Coaching.com, a web-enabled leadership development coaching service. He is currently executive director of Service Delivery for The Ken Blanchard Companies, an internationally recognized management and leadership training and consulting firm based in San Diego, California. Blanchard lives in beautiful Escondido, California.

MADELEINE HOMAN is the vice president of Blended Solutions at The Ken Blanchard Companies and a founder of Coaching.com. Her clients have included executives at PictureTel, Altel, Adobe, American Standard, and some of the top consulting and investment firms. She splits her time between Dobbs Ferry, New York and Escondido, California.

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LEVERAGE YOUR BEST DITCH THE REST

If you want to be your personal best, you need a good coach. You have one right in your hands. Read it and get to work!'
HARVEY MACKAY, author of the number 1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

'A telling Zen saying, "First enlighten… then, the laundry." Blanchard and Homan's book does both. Spendidly. Usefully.'
WARREN BENNIS

'This book is so powerful it'll wake you up, keep you awake, and coach you as you sleep!'
LAURA BERMAN FORTGANG, MCC, author of Take Yourself to the Top and NOW WHAT! 90 Days to a New Life Direction

'Top executives pay thousands of dollars for personal coaching, knowing that the life-changing benefits are worth every penny. Blanchard and Homan deliver the power of having your very own executive coach for the modest price of a book.'
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, named by Forbes as one of the five most respected executive coaches and author of The Leader of the Future and Coaching for Leadership

Aus dem Klappentext

leverage (lev'ər ij) The power to act or influence.

ditch (dich) Slang, to get rid of; discard.

Finally, you hold in your hands a powerful tool that will show you how to take full advantage of Leverage! your strengths and most positive qualities, while at the same time discarding or getting around Ditch! whatever gets in your way.

Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan, co-founders of Coaching.com, share their ground-breaking programme, honed by fourteen years of high-level executive coaching and consulting. They offer new perspectives on how to spend your precious and limited resources, time, emotions, passions, and energy to generate the best results.

The three part process begins with a twenty-five-question self- assessment, then moves on to the Three Perspectives majorlife queries that focus on how you are perceived, your own self-image, and self-imposed limitations. The final step, the Seven Leverage Points, offers fresh insight into the choices you make and how you conduct yourself in business and in life. You will find immediately applicable tools to appraise and manage your work environment and personal gifts. You will be guided to make tiny but crucial shifts in getting needs met and drawing boundaries.

Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest eliminates the stupid stuff that distracts you and gets in your way. It shows you how to capitalise on what you've got going for you and how to invest in yourself like a hot new stock.