SURPRISES IN THE BOOK ACHIEVING PEAK PERFORMANCE

Recently I reviewed the 2009 book, Achieving Peak Performance which was the fifth volume of the Meta-Coaching series. Why? Because I was working through the new training and manual on Unleashing Productivity. I will be delivering that training in May in Moscow and needed to deliver to the Russian translators a more current manual. So I read the book for the first time as a book, and several things surprised me about it. I had really not looked at the book in over six years and with the passing of that much time, I had forgotten about many of the things I put in that book.

1) Lots of Patterns. The first thing that surprised me was that I had absolutely filled that book with coaching patterns—some 39 patterns in that single book. If you do Performance Coaching, here is a book that will give you a wide-range of focused conversations to help people close the knowing- doing gap. In fact, closing the knowing–doing gap is the central theme of this book. To that end, chapter three has 15 patterns designed to “Get Yourself to Take Effective Action.”