Colvin, Geoffrey

Provides strategies for addressing and preventing misbehavior and disruptive conduct in the classroom and includes assessment tools, guidelines for creating intervention plans, forms, and other resources.

Despite the rise of technology today, humans' ability to have empathy, creativity, social sensitivity, and personal relationships can't be duplicated by machines. Describes how organizations are drawing on this knowledge to gain a competitive advantage that translates to dedicated customers, strong cultures, new ideas, and effective teams.

A guide to managing the cycle of acting-out behavior in the classroom, providing a seven-phase model, various defusing strategies, case studies, and more.

The author debunks the myth that some people are born with innate talent, and maintains that the secret to exceptional performance in any field depends on how hard the individual challenges himself.

Author Geoff Colvin shows what makes world-class performers so remarkable, and how the principles of great performance can be applied to virtually any activity. Colvin defines what deliberate practice is and isn't, how it works, and how to apply the principle of deliberate practice in our lives and organizations.