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Team Purpose to Performance
A Pocket Guide to Purpose | Volume 3
The catalytic process for legacy-making lasting change.
For over 30 years, Laura Stone has honed a process used by Fortune 500 companies to create high-performing teams.
This book unveils that process for everyone. It’s a step-by-step guide that goes beyond traditional team-building exercises. It delves into emotions, celebrates failures as learning opportunities, and equips teams to not just define their purpose, but translate it into actionable plans and achieve breakthrough results.
Leaders will learn how to cultivate excitement, overcome challenges, and make their teams truly impactful.
A Pocket Guide to Purpose
A quick and simple way to access and advance your purpose.
Who has time for lengthy career guides and dense self-help manuals? “A Pocket Guide to Purpose” condenses years of wisdom into bite-sized, actionable steps.
Discover your unique skills, ignite your passions, and chart a future that brings you joy. Forget the destination; embrace the journey and unlock your full potential, one empowering step at a time.
Whether you’re a CEO or a student, life’s big questions can feel overwhelming. This handy guide, packed with vivid illustrations and simple prompts, offers a refreshingly accessible path to personal transformation.
A Pocket Guide to Purpose for Leaders
A Pocket Guide to Purpose | Volume 2
A Powerful Approach to Create and Unleash Greater Innovation, Inclusion and Engagement
Struggling to ignite your team’s passion and crush those stagnant results? This is your 14-minute rocket fuel to success, with actionable strategies to weave your own purpose into every fiber of your organization.
Discover and land your own leadership purpose, and unlock hidden potential within each individual you lead. Learn to identify aspirations, help craft a purpose-driven culture by coaching your team individually to access and advance their own purpose. Then see your team flourish with impactful results.
Packed with tools, real-world examples, and clear visuals, this guide is your shortcut to elevating each of your team member’s performance while ensuring each team member has line of sight with how their purpose connects to the larger purpose.
Quick & Dirties
These valuable lessons are presented in “bite-sized,” PDF format. After you have learned the core concepts, these are great concept refreshers.
The Leader’s Journey
Similar to Joseph Cambell’s hero’s journey, every leader must acquire self knowledge, team dynamic understanding, and business acumen. It is necessary to understand what strategic imperatives are critical to pay attention to, when to pay attention, and how.
These strategic imperatives include reading current trends both externally and internally. While external monitoring/sensing is critical, this work focuses on the leader’s internal journey. Leading ourselves, the team we lead, and the internal environment including stakeholder leadership and management.
Purpose
Strategic Moment
Triangle Disempowerment
Say Do See
This simple framework will consistently demonstrate your capabilities and build trust with stakeholders, ultimately leading to better results.
The above items are free for you to use. Sign up for one of Laura’s programs for more.
Strategic Gems
Sharpen your competitive edge with our Strategic Gems. This treasure trove contains nuggets of insights and actionable advice on all facets of effective leadership.
Unlock Potential with the Rapid Performance Process Guide
Create Alignment. Drive Results. Unlock Potential. Are you ready to transform performance discussions from vague expectations into high-impact, results-driven conversations? The Rapid Performance Process Guide is a powerful three-step framework designed to bring...
Are You Feeling Stuck or Disempowered at Work?
Difficult work relationships can be frustrating and even disempowering, leaving you feeling trapped in a cycle of blame, resentment, or exhaustion. But what if the real challenge isn’t just the other person—it’s how you’re seeing the situation? The Triangle of...
The Leadership Breakthrough: Delegation vs. Returning Authority
Effective leaders shift from delegation to returning authority—empowering teams with ownership, decision-making, and accountability for high performance.
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Additional Reading
Brown, Brené. Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.
Burnett, Bill, & Evans, Dave. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. Knopf, 2016.
Chamine, Shirzad. Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS. Austin: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012.
Craig, N., George, B., & Snook, S. The Discover Your True North Field Book. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House, 2006.
Frankl, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning. NY: Pocket Books, 1977.
George, Bill. True North.New Jersey: Wiley 2015.
George, B. with Sims, P. Discover Your True North. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Hendriks, Gay. The Big Leap. HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Hurst, Aaron. The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire For Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World. Elevate, 2014.
Ibarra, Herminia. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Leider, Richard. Calling Cards: Uncover Your Calling (deck of cards), Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.
Leider, Richard. Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better. Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010.
Luna, Elle. The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion. Workman Publishing, 2015.
Passion Profiler: www.thepurposelink.com/passion-profiler-tool.
Pink, Daniel. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Hardcover, 2009.
Seligman, Martin. Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being and How to Achieve Them. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011.
Sinek, Simon. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Penguin, 2009.
Voss, Christopher. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.