Full name: The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

Author: Marcia Reynolds Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Leadership Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781626560659 162656065X

You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth. Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone--the moment when the mind is most open to learning--to prompt people to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limitations. Drawing on recent discoveries in the neuroscience of learning, Reynolds shows how to ask the kinds of questions that short-circuit the brain's defense mechanisms and habitual thought patterns. Then, instead of being told, people see for themselves the insightful and often profound solutions to what is stopping their progress. The exercises and case studies will help you use discomfort in your conversations to create lasting changes and an enlivened workforce. Similar books: Leadership: Past, Present & Future by Carlos M. Rivera Leading Women by Nancy D. O'Reilly Finding Your True North by Bill George On Leadership by John W. Gardner Changing on the Job by Jennifer Garvey Berger The Secret of Teams by Mark Miller The Carpenter by Jon Gordon Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman The Executive Transition Playbook by Hilary Potts The Talent Masters by Bill Conaty Creating Leaderful Organizations by Joseph A. Raelin Real Influence by Mark Goulston Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins Leaders Made Here by Mark Miller Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes Becoming a Person of Influence by John C. Maxwell Why Motivating People Doesn't Work... and What Does by Susan Fowler Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell