Help People Win at Work

A new book I’ve been working to review is the first book of Ken Blanchard’s Leading at a Higher Level series, Helping People Win at Work. It’s a fantastic book in which Blanchard and WD-40 President/CEO Garry Ridge reveal how WD-40 is “Partnering for Performance” with every employee – and more importantly, achieving unprecedented levels of engagement and commitment.

Helping People Win at Work shares WD-40’s Blanchard-inspired year-round performance review system: the goals, features, and the cultural changes it required to be the success it is. Additionally, Garry Ridge shares his “leadership point of view”: what he expects of people, what they can expect of him, and where his beliefs about leadership and motivation came from. Ken Blanchard explains why WD-40’s Partnering for Performance system works so well – and in great detail, how you leverage these high-value techniques in your organization.

There are 5 things this book focuses on:

• Transform performance review into a powerful competitive advantage
• Help people reach their full potential, and build a truly great place to work—even in tough times
• Stop building failure into their performance review systems
• Provide year-round coaching that moves people through all four stages of mastery
• Build a culture that actually shares knowledge and encourages non-stop learning, instead of just claiming to do so

While I am not done reading this book, what I have read is outstanding! The publicist for this book has been nice enough to share chapter 1 with me to share with you. It’s titled Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A. I encourage you to check it out and see if this is a book for you, or for someone you care about that’s a manager.

How can YOU help people win at work?

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