Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

nice book.

An easy informative and thought provoking read

Quiet Leadership is high quality content and essential for anyone exploring coaching - I knew what I was buying and why. In terms of the condition though, I expected a second hand book. However, it was described as Very Good Condition, so I've knocked a star off as it's pretty battered to be honest.

For those less in your face leaders who are able to inspire and work with and through others. This book gives you some of the tools and ways to approach and reflect on what you do.

another read read from Rock

Serious about coaching? Serious about the science of language and the brain? Read this! The book brings together neuroscience & the use within coaching people around goals, dilemmas & performance. I have completed many of David's courses & it has boosted my income, my management position & best of all the way I speak with people & understanding them better. As a writer, David lacks a bit of inspiration at times & I feel as though sometimes I was urging him to get to the point. You will never get as much out of a book than at a seminar or course. This book will give you more than enough food for thought & tools/systems to achieve success in the realms of performance coaching.

Felt a bit simplistic in parts, but kept my attention; I shall use some of it in my work situation.

No quiet what I was expecting - which was an expectation formed from reading the first two words of the title alone. Nevertheless, I rather enjoyed this book and thought the advice good. There are a few original ideas, but mostly it is a version of/advance on something like Schein's Process Consulting, combined with a coaching style of leadership. Occasionally I found the examples a little naive and too neat, but worth a read if you are looking for a different way of leading a team.

Gostei da associação entre os caminhos da liderança e os das conexões neuronais. É uma abordagem inusitada e pareceu-me verdadeira.

A good friend adviced me to read this book. I have to say that it provides me a lot of answers I asked myself regarding the cerebral part which has to be taken into account managing people. My turn to encourage you to read it and To enjoy it.

Inspirational book! I now have all the confidence I require for world domination.

I was recommended this book by a work mentor. I found it very useful in providing a systematic way to listen, query and empower people to realise and improve on their thinking. Well written, excellent references.

Good coaching is simply helping people with their thinking, according to the author. I agree. David Rock explains principles of effective coaching and its powerful impact on and in the brains of people we coach, and his explanations have helped me learn new approaches to use in my professional work as a corporate coach. Two faults with the book: First, the title "Quiet Leadership" misses the potential audience of coaches (as professional coaches don't lead you but rather help you discover possible paths from which you choose your way forward), and the emphasis on QUIET may be unappealing to the often bold and noisy leaders who would most benefit from learning how to lead while coaching to better performance. Second, at times it seems the author is trying to impress me with how smart he is, and the "war stories" get in the way of getting to the meat of the techniques to use. Still, I found great value in the book and highly recommend it to coaches and aspiring coaches, along with works by John Whitmore, Alan Fine, W. Timothy Gallwey. This book will help you learn better coaching questions to ask, help you better understand what goes on within your client's/coachee's mind and brain when you coach well, and get better at noticing your client's/coachee's reactions to your coaching efforts. I'm a better coach from having read and applied things David Rock presents.