Jump Start!

Become a true leader in your first 90 days by using the effective techniques outlined to create a team/organization that maximizes potential, builds team spirit, and inspires the group to achieve.

Do you want to become a true leader, one who inspires, one who creates great results in a way that nourishes people instead of using them up ans spitting them out? If you're looking for a book on leadership that shows you techniques to create an energized team that can take on anything, this is the book for you. In the first critical ninety days of your new position, you will learn how to maximize that time to: - Assess yourself and your team - Assess the culture of your group.organization - Find out what your group REALLY does (even they may not know) - How well do they do it? - And most importantly WHY do they do it? (they probably don't know this, either!) - How to build a plan to inspire them Once you've learned these key techniques you'll learn how to make these work in an environment that isn't always "warm and fuzzy" so you and your group can have real achievements in the real world.

Paul Bauer has spent his career learning the ways of effective leadership. From very early on, he focused on finding a better way to lead: a way that would help teams and organizations take on and achieve things that matter. Over time he perfected the methods of leading that is all too rare these days: a human-centric approach maximizing potential, fostering camaraderie, and finding the inspiring amid the day-to-day. He has used these techniques in companies from the Fortune 100 to those with barely more than one hundred employees. He has built teams from the ground up, rebuilt existing teams, restructured organizations and re-energized organizations, infusing them with an enthusiasm for the work, each other, and their achievements. Viewing the current state of management, he has become disillusioned and disgusted with the cold, distrustful, purely task-oriented way managers treat their people and saddened by how totally unmotivated most people are in their jobs. He views it as a crime against the human spirit and an unconscionable productivity drain perpetuated by those very managers entrusted to increase it. Paul has written “Jump Start!” to combat this situation by introducing his highly-effective techniques to a whole new audience of managers who want to become true leaders and create teams inspired to do the truly remarkable. Paul has also created a website, Slingshot (www.slingshotonline.net), to provide a gathering place for like-minded leaders to come and learn from each other and support each other in an environment not always receptive to human-based leadership.