Michael K. Simpson Books

On-going coaching and development that can be a “game changer” for all employees! All great coaches know how to ask good open-ended questions and how to give effective feedback. They keep a balanced and honest perspective that separates the person from the problem or issue; coaching to leverage their unique strengths and helping them improve weaknesses with a mindset focused on continuous improvement. This ongoing coaching and development can be a “game changer” for all people and teams with access to it.  But what about the teams and players that aren’t empowered―or even allowed―to expand their roles? Or the team members whose careers don’t inspire or play to their natural gifts, talents, and strengths? It’s painful for any organization or manager when people on their team aren’t given the tools to succeed; and more painful still when the team member doesn’t yet realize it. But by coaching through leadership, any manager of any organization can create a supportive structure that helps assign the right roles, resources, tools, and career opportunities that will best leverage their strengths. Each chapter includes a series of powerful and provocative coaching questions for any leader or manager to use immediately in the workplace. 

To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach. You're a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business...but can you fully motivate and engage your team? Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people--the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole. Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive tool for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don't just manage; energize, galvanize, inspire. Be a coach.

Deeply personal and compellingly written by the younger brother in this story, the book is uniquely set against America's involvement in two great civil wars-our country's own conflict in the 1860s and Vietnam in the late 1960s. It is an evocative journey into the author's family history and the universal themes central to it-the bonds of family and star-crossed love, duty versus faith, the true nature of patriotism and conscience in war, and the turbulent end of innocence. Rich in emotional textures, Sons of My Fathers is a transformative and timeless coming-of-age narrative

Detective Inspector Jimmy Nicholls is an outstanding young police officer in the Met who is leading the investigation into the brutal murder of four drug-addicted lowlifes, killed on the doorstep of one of the most notorious crime bosses in London. As he begins his investigation, he finds himself being warned off investigating the crime boss by the Met Commissioner, who also happens to be the father of his girlfriend, and a man he has known most of his life. With no leads and little in the way of forensic evidence, the case doesn't seem to be going anywhere. That is until the killer gets in touch with Nicholls in a completely unexpected way and warns him not to speak to anyone else, or his life will be in danger. Nicholls initially has no choice but to comply with the killer's demands but as more details are revealed, Nicholls learns some grisly details about his own family's past that leads him to question who the real criminals are. Nicholls and the killer begin to form an uneasy alliance as they work together to uncover some shocking truths about the relationship between organised crime and corruption in London. As the machinations of power are slowly revealed, Nicholls learns of a nefarious plot by the criminals to take control of the government. It is down to him and the killer to stop it.

Kommandos waren gestern: Nur Führungskräfte, die mitreißen, inspirieren und ihre Angestellte mental unterstützen, bekommen auch die engagierten und motivierten Mitarbeiter, die sie brauchen. Ohne Empathie und Motivation kommt heute kein Vorgesetzter mehr aus: Gefragt sind daher nicht mehr autoritäre Chefs, sondern Führungskräfte mit Coachingfähigkeiten! Für alle Führungskräfte stellt dieses Buch den wegweisenden Coaching-Ansatz von FranklinCovey vor. Ausgehend von den vier Grundpfeilern Vertrauen, Potenzial, Einsatz und Ausführung werden die sieben entscheidenden Fähigkeiten vorgestellt, von Vertrauen bilden über den konstruktiven Umgang mit Fehlern bis hin zu effektivem Feedback. Damit wird das Buch zum grundlegenden Ratgeber für alle Coaches und Führungskräfte. Mit einer deutlichen Botschaft: Hört auf, nur zu managen! Fangt an zu inspirieren, wachzurütteln, zu motivieren – seid Coaches!