High Performance Leadership: Creating, Leading And Living In A High Performance World

Using vivid examples and interviews from one of the world's most successful Olympic sport systems; an Everest expedition; medical retrieval; special military forces and numerous businesses, Graham Winter - three-times Chief Psychologist for the Australian Olympic Team and international business consultant - reveals in step-by-step models, tools and techniques on how the best leaders create high performance cultures.

Based on the High Performance Leadership Program - licensed for five years by PwC Consulting - this is a powerful, proven and easy-to-implement approach to leadership that is essential in the fast and competitive business environment of the 21st century.

Chief executives, managers, team leaders and business owners will all learn how to:

• Create a culture in which success is inevitable
• Apply the techniques of the Olympic Coach to their own program
• Design a dynamic performance model that every person in his or her organization can embrace.

High Performance Leadership combines the excitement and graphic examples of high performance worlds with the practical on-the-ground tools and techniques needed to get immediate business results.

It will capture your imagination and give you the performance language and tools needed to bring others with you on the high performance journey.

Olympic sports present a vivid example of how to achieve world-class performance through a special blend of management, teamwork and individual performance.
Based on a hugely successful leadership and team development process which has been tested in over 50 organisations (and licensed by PwC), Performance Leadership aims to give leaders the world class skills and tools required to win in today's dynamic business environment.
Case examples include the inside story of how the highly successful Australian swimming team reaped their haul of medals at the Sydney Olympics.
Graham Winter was Head of Psychology Services to the 2000 Australian Olympic Team, and is a PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant. He has authored an extensive business training and development process linked to his Business Athlete concept.