Thanks for visiting our Resources Page! Here Alicia has curated her favorite resources related to Adelante Coaching + Consulting’s four focus areas. We hope there is a resource here that helps you “find forward.”

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Leadership Development

• Dare to Lead: Daring Greatly and Rising Strong at Work; Brené Brown (Book)
• The Discomfort Zone: How leaders turn difficult conversations into breakthroughs; Marcia Reynolds (Book)
• The Coaching Habit: Say less, ask more and change the way you lead forever; Michael Bungay Stanier (Book)
• Leadership Presence: Dramatic techniques to reach out, motivate, and inspire; Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar (Book)
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action; Simon Sinek (Book) 
• Emotional Intelligence in Business: EQ: The Essential Ingredient to Survive and Thrive as a Modern Workplace Leader; R. Stevens (Book)

Manager Effectiveness

• It’s the Manager; Jim Clifton and Jim Harter (Book)
• 12: The Elements of Great Managing; Rodd Wagner and James Harter (Book)
• Managing to Make a Difference; Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage (Book)
• What Great Managers Do; Marcus Buckingham (Article)
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently; Gallup (Book)

Employee Engagement

• How a Focus on People's Strengths Increases Their Work Engagement; Gallup (Article)
• StrengthsFinder 2.0; Tom Rath (Book and Online)
• Developing and Sustaining Employee Engagement; SHRM (Article)
• Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage; Wiley (Book)
• Help them Grow or Watch them Go: Career conversations employees want; Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni (Book)

Team Performance

• Google’s re:Work on Team Effectiveness (Online)
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't; Simon Sinek (Book) 
• Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World; Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall (Book)
• Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership: Alden Mills (Book)
• Teams solve problems when they are more cognitively diverse: Harvard Business Review (Article)