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                        <title>New Book Shows How Average Performers Can Become Superstars </title>
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                        <description>Average performers can be helped to adopt the winning ways of high performing superstars. Workgroup productivity and corporate performance can be transformed to deliver commercial success for organisations and personal satisfaction for individuals. A new book &#039;Winning Companies: Winning People&#039; by Colin Coulson-Thomas shows how. [PRWeb Nov 23, 2006]</description>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[(PRWeb) November 23, 2006 -- Why are some people so much more effective than others who undertake similar tasks in equivalent circumstances? What do the high performers do differently? The Winning Companies: Winning People research programme examines how people operate in important areas such as building relationships, bidding, pricing, purchasing and exploiting know-how. 



Over 4,000 organisations from smaller firms to major corporations have participated in the University of Lincoln programme led by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas. Some 2,000 of these have contributed to studies to identify critical success factors for key business development activities. The findings are remarkably consistent across sectors, professions, corporate nationalities and different sizes of organisation.

Areas examined range from communicating to visioning. Because most success factors are attitudinal and behavioural, investigating teams can distinguish the approaches of high performers or winners from the practices of low achieving losers. The results are summarised for the first time in &#039;Winning Companies: Winning People&#039; (Kingsham Press) *.

According to Prof. Coulson-Thomas, &quot;The book is good news for people and organisations who would like to raise their game. It provides a compendium of the differing approaches of winners and losers for those with ambitions to build successful businesses and achieve their full potential. Individuals, entrepreneurs, managers, coaches and consultants can use it as a tool to identify losing behaviours that need to be addressed.&quot; 

In many sectors leading competitors have similar offerings, adopt prevailing technologies and systems, recruit from the major business schools, fall for current management fads and employ the same professional firms. Yet examine a particular area of operation and huge variations of performance are evident. Why is this?

Individual studies within the Winning Companies: Winning People research programme rank participant&#039;s attainments in relation to outcomes achieved from the most to the least successful. The approaches of high and low achievers -- for example, those in the top and bottom quartiles of accomplishment -- are then compared to isolate critical success factors that explain the differences of attainment.

Coulson-Thomas finds that: &quot;Identified winning ways can be quickly adopted. Every participant in the research programme could boost performance by embracing additional critical success factors and adopting more winning approaches.&quot;

The Professor reports: &quot;Winners don&#039;t work harder or cheat. They approach challenges and opportunities differently. Pioneers are building critical success factors into the processes for key activities and adopting cost effective ways of helping people to emulate the winning ways of high performing superstars.&quot;

Overall, the research findings and winner-loser comparisons are intriguing. Companies that excel at certain activities usually perform badly at others. Coulson-Thomas believes: &quot;Were companies to adopt winning ways across the board overall productivity and personal satisfaction would increase by an unprecedented amount.&quot;

The investigating teams found massive expenditure on activities that do not relate to critical success factors and winning behaviours. Prof. Coulson-Thomas reports: &quot;Almost every company visited during the research programme was found to be devoting considerable resources to similar initiatives that would make little if any difference to outcomes achieved in areas covered by the investigation.&quot;

Many companies are not aware of critical success factors and... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/high/performers/prweb482712.htm]]></content:encoded>
                        <itunes:author>COLIN COULSON-THOMAS</itunes:author>
                        <itunes:subtitle>New Book Shows How Average Performers Can Become Superstars </itunes:subtitle>
                        <itunes:summary><![CDATA[(PRWeb) November 23, 2006 -- Why are some people so much more effective than others who undertake similar tasks in equivalent circumstances? What do the high performers do differently? The Winning Companies: Winning People research programme examines how people operate in important areas such as building relationships, bidding, pricing, purchasing and exploiting know-how. 



Over 4,000 organisations from smaller firms to major corporations have participated in the University of Lincoln programme led by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas. Some 2,000 of these have contributed to studies to identify critical success factors for key business development activities. The findings are remarkably consistent across sectors, professions, corporate nationalities and different sizes of organisation.

Areas examined range from communicating to visioning. Because most success factors are attitudinal and behavioural, investigating teams can distinguish the approaches of high performers or winners from the practices of low achieving losers. The results are summarised for the first time in &#039;Winning Companies: Winning People&#039; (Kingsham Press) *.

According to Prof. Coulson-Thomas, &quot;The book is good news for people and organisations who would like to raise their game. It provides a compendium of the differing approaches of winners and losers for those with ambitions to build successful businesses and achieve their full potential. Individuals, entrepreneurs, managers, coaches and consultants can use it as a tool to identify losing behaviours that need to be addressed.&quot; 

In many sectors leading competitors have similar offerings, adopt prevailing technologies and systems, recruit from the major business schools, fall for current management fads and employ the same professional firms. Yet examine a particular area of operation and huge variations of performance are evident. Why is this?

Individual studies within the Winning Companies: Winning People research programme rank participant&#039;s attainments in relation to outcomes achieved from the most to the least successful. The approaches of high and low achievers -- for example, those in the top and bottom quartiles of accomplishment -- are then compared to isolate critical success factors that explain the differences of attainment.

Coulson-Thomas finds that: &quot;Identified winning ways can be quickly adopted. Every participant in the research programme could boost performance by embracing additional critical success factors and adopting more winning approaches.&quot;

The Professor reports: &quot;Winners don&#039;t work harder or cheat. They approach challenges and opportunities differently. Pioneers are building critical success factors into the processes for key activities and adopting cost effective ways of helping people to emulate the winning ways of high performing superstars.&quot;

Overall, the research findings and winner-loser comparisons are intriguing. Companies that excel at certain activities usually perform badly at others. Coulson-Thomas believes: &quot;Were companies to adopt winning ways across the board overall productivity and personal satisfaction would increase by an unprecedented amount.&quot;

The investigating teams found massive expenditure on activities that do not relate to critical success factors and winning behaviours. Prof. Coulson-Thomas reports: &quot;Almost every company visited during the research programme was found to be devoting considerable resources to similar initiatives that would make little if any difference to outcomes achieved in areas covered by the investigation.&quot;

Many companies are not aware of critical success factors and... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/high/performers/prweb482712.htm]]></itunes:summary>

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