The Thinking Advantage: 4 Essential Steps Your Team Needs to Cultivate Collaboration, Leverage Creative Problem-Solving, and Enjoy Exponential Growth

by Jill Young

Overview

How do you blow up your company's growth?

 

Start with high quality training. Follow that up with thoughtful coaching by managers who refuse to rescue and value learning experiences. Implementing this proven algorithm creates a thinking company that generates exponential growth. 

 

Author Jill Young shares her vast experience in helping entrepreneurs discover and celebrate the creation of thinkers in their company, identify gaps in their system, and close those gaps.

 

The Thinking Advantage is a unique step-by-step guide to help you

●   leverage creative problem-solving to overcome obstacles

●   recognize ways to improve your interaction with and among your employees

●   identify areas you can grow as a coach to create better results

●   modify your company's training to develop and improve collaborative thinking

●   rethink your follow-up strategy to close better deals

●   create a culture of accountability that attracts high performers

●   activate productivity and rich conversations that produce permanent and foundational change 

 

Ensure exponential growth by increasing the thinkers in your organization starting today!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647463519
Publisher:	Author Academy Elite
Publication date:	10/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Jill Young, an Expert Entrepreneurial Operating System Implementer®, speaker, and author, specializes in guiding business owners to form unified teams that create vision, experience traction, and produce value. Jill has implemented EOS with over 80 companies, coaches, and entrepreneurs, offering tools that propel her clients to the next level of success. She is the author of The Advantage Series©-books designed to accelerate the mindset of entrepreneurs and their teams toward growth-oriented results.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Case for Thinking in Your Company

The Four Steps

STEP ONE: TEACH 

Teaching Adults

Eight Approaches for Adult Learners

Practical Applications

What We've Learned

STEP TWO: COACH 

What is Coaching?

The Coaching Magic Matrix

Observe Mode

Respond Mode

Co-Create Mode

Return and Reflect Mode

STEP THREE: DON'T RESCUE 

A More Thoughtful Hero

Don't Take the Monkey!

When You Can See Farther Down The River

The Fire Department Tool

STEP FOUR: RETURN AND REFLECT 

Experience is a Hot Commodity!

Return: Make the Invitation!

Reflect: Hold Regular Reflection Sessions

Reflect: Types of Reflection Sessions

Reflect: Teach Someone Else

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendices



Editorial Reviews

The simple yet deep observations Jill shares in this book will get your people thinking, solving, and creating at a higher level.

-Gino Wickman, Author of Traction and Entrepreneurial Leap

Too many entrepreneurial leaders and managers are getting bogged down with doing all the thinking in their companies, leading to burnout and low creativity. Using stories and practical applications-and her characteristic lightheartedness, energy, and optimism-Jill Young shows them how to teach their employees how to think, enabling them to move faster because everyone in the company will have their brain cells engaged in thinking at every level.

-Dan Sullivan, Cofounder of Strategic Coach®

The Thinking Advantage is a business book like no other. Jill is the expert on breaking complex leadership principles into practical and memorable steps. Her insights on creating a thinking organization are as astounding as they are applicable. Do yourself and your team a favor-read this book and get ready to collaborate, solve problems, and grow your company in a transformational way.

-Kary Oberbrunner, CEO of Igniting Souls and Author of Unhackable

Every great Visionary and Integrator duo has a not-so-secret wish: for everyone in their company to do more thinking, problem-solving, and idea generation. Too often, people mistakenly assume that their leaders are responsible for all of the thinking. In this book, Jill lays out four simple steps to get your whole company on board with learning, growing, and ultimately contributing to the long-term, greater good of the company.

-Mark C. Winters Co-author of Rocket Fuel

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