Guaranteeing Performance Improvement

Everybody wants to get better at what they do - or at least they should want to. The problem is, not everyone knows exactly how to do this - achieve measurable and lasting performance improvement. This book will help people and organizations achieve those desired results by helping them focus on a positive approach to what makes the performer tick. The author describes seven steps to guaranteeing performance improvement - starting with setting goals and managing expectations all the way through making new behaviors habit. Learn about negative emotions that hinder performance, how praise can hurt results, ways to motivate employees, solutions to motivation-related problems and more. The entire last chapter is devoted to explaining various aids and tools that will accelerate improvement. The book's seven chapters will teach you: How to use sports and performance psychology to generate improvements; Why individual performance patterns are important; How motivation and performer psychology affect improvement; How emotional intelligence relates to performance improvement; Why a focus on the positive leads to improvement; How stress can benefit performance and how stress management leads to performance improvement. With the techniques described in this book, you have more than you need to achieve high levels of performance yourself - or guarantee performance improvement when someone else's performance falls short.