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Books
Team Purpose to Performance
A Pocket Guide to Purpose | Volume 3
A straightforward method for achieving peak team performance.
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 purpose into every fiber of your organization.
Discover your own leadership purpose, unite your team under a shared mission, and unlock hidden potential within each individual. Learn to identify aspirations, craft a purpose-driven culture, and see your team flourish with impactful results.
Packed with tools, real-world examples, and clear visuals, this guide is your shortcut to a thriving organization. Invest 14 minutes and watch your team soar.
Online Courses
Access Laura Stone Inc. coaching with a self-paced course. Courses require a paid membership.
Accessing & Advancing Your Purpose
The content in this program is based on Laura J. Stone's book, A Pocket Guide to Purpose: A Quick and Simple Way to Access and Advance Your 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. Many bite-sized leadership gems in the Quick & Dirty format. Sign up for a free membership for access.
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.
Open-Narrow-Close: A Communication and Problem-Solving Tool for Peak Performance
Do you ever feel like your team is spinning its wheels? Discussions stall, decisions get bogged down, and frustration mounts. Often, the culprit is a simple misunderstanding: team members are at different stages of the communication process.
Coming Soon: The Book – Team Purpose to Performance
How to Create Legacy-Making Impact Through Teams A Pocket Guide to Purpose Series | Volume 3 Are you tired of your team achieving mediocre results and know you can do better? Typically this consultative process has been reserved only for the C-suite executive leader...
The SAY-DO-SEE Method: The Simple Secret to Building Credibility and Trust as a Leader
Leaders are constantly under pressure to deliver results. We strive for efficiency, maximizing every moment to meet deadlines and achieve ambitious goals. However, in this relentless pursuit, a crucial aspect of leadership often gets neglected: building credibility...
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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.