Get Momentum: How to Start When You're Stuck

ISBN-13: 9781119180265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 160 str.

Womack, Jason W.

Opis

A powerful and personalized process to improve your life and advance your career Do you sometimes feel stuck, despite real efforts to gain momentum on goals you've set? Momentum means you're doing more than simply getting things done. It's that feeling of satisfaction, the belief that you can achieve big goals and complete important projects that fulfill you both personally and professionally. Get Momentum coaches you in the mindset, skill set, and toolkit required to make progress on the items you have on your life and work goals faster and easier, while living a less stressful, more meaningful life. The authors, Jodi Womack and her husband Jason Womack, provide valuable insights into the psychology of change and how to direct your focus to experience fulfillment at work and in life. The authors share what they know having built a successful executive coaching firm together, as well as facilitating leadership workshops in their home town and more than twenty countries around the world. Contrary to the promise of many self-help/business books, they believe there is no one-size-fits-all recipe for success.Get Momentum teaches you how to make proactive changes based on the solid foundation of your own -quality of life- criteria. Jodi and Jason offer clear, step-by-step guidance on how to define your personal criteria so that you can Get Momentum, improve your life and enhance your career. You will learn how to:

• Answer the Call (What to do when you say -Someone should do something about this -)
• Organize a Team and Gain the Perspective of People You Trust
• Measure Something (Just Not Everything At Once)
• Experiment Specifically and Practice Deliberately
• Build Momentum, Recognize Your Wins, and Pay It Forward

With kindness, accountability and encouragement, Get Momentum will help you tap into your natural way of being to achieve professional goals and personal experiences that are on your bucket list, living a life you're proud to share with others.

Spis treści

1 Being Stuck Sucks 1

2 The Five Stages of Momentum 14

3 Motivation 26

4 Mentors 45

5 Milestones 64

6 Monitor 79

7 Modify 97

8 You Did It! 116

Resources to Help You Keep the Momentum You ve Started 123

Thank You 125

Index 129

O autorze

Jason W. Womack is the CEO of The Womack Company, an international training firm and the author of Your Best Just Got Better (Wiley, 2012). Since 2000 he has coached leaders across industries and trained them in the art of increasing their workplace productivity and achieving personal happiness.

Jodi Womack is the CEO of the Get Momentum Leadership Academy and the founder of No More Nylons, a coaching program providing women business leaders with professional networking expertise.

Blurb

A transformative process to improve your life and advance your career!

Get Momentum teaches you the strategies to use to start important projects and reach your goals. Written by the cofounders of the Get Momentum Leadership Academy, based in Ojai, CA, Jodi and Jason Womack coach you as you practice the skills and tactics you need to overcome inertia and develop the confidence you need to achieve your goals.

"Momentum is a little like friendship. It′s great to have, but too few people are willing to work to get it. The Womacks are eager to guide you to acquire the wind at your back."
SETH GODIN, Author, The Icarus Deception

"An organizational culture–change starts when leaders get momentum and take consistent action that makes things better. The Womacks wrote the book that gets you started."
RON GARROW, Chief Human Resources Officer, MasterCard

"You know that project you′ve been meaning to start? Now′s the time. Answer the 5 Momentum Questions that Jodi and Jason ask and you′ll make progress faster than you ever thought possible."
ALI BROWN, Secret Millionaire show

"Jason and Jodi are masters at helping leaders intentionally make the most of their teams and their lives. This dynamic duo has helped me and the teams I have led become masters of our time, days, priorities, families and lives."
COLONEL BILL DEMARCO, Director of Staff at Air University, United States Air Force

"Jodi and Jason′s newest work will teach you how to get and keep momentum. Get a jumpstart on the projects you′ve been putting off and experience renewed energy and excitement for your work!"
LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, CPAE, Award–Winning Speaker and Author of Doing the Things Right