From soccer pitch to sitting room, from small business tocorporate board ... this book holds the keys to improvingyourself and your results no matter what game you areplaying.
--Giles Spackman, Finance Director, Google, EMEA
In Scores on the Board(TM), Bill Lang uses a simplestory about a soccer team to demonstrate how his techniques can beused by any organisation to achieve high levels of success withlittle effort. A MUST READ for any business.
--Chris Vanderkley, Chief Financial Offi cer --General Electric, ANZ
This book may well become the gold standard for how totranslate what we say we need to do into what we actually do forourselves, our families and the organisations we serve.
--Tony Johnson, Partner Financial Services -- OceaniaAssurance Leader, Ernst & Young
An insightful read into a 5-part system which is essentialreading for all team leaders and business owners.
--Geoff Greer, Executive General Manager -- BusinessBanking, National Australia Bank
From start-ups to global brands, this book provides practicaleveryday examples that illustrate how to improve the performance ofany team or business.
--Alan Court, Business Development, INTEL Corporation
The simple system explained in this book will help you buildyour skills and performance to world-class levels in world-recordtime!
--Dave Phua, Managing Director, Training EdgeInternational (Singapore)
Great coaching is more than good advice -- it's amental game. In his book Scores on the Board(TM), BillLang explores the various tactics of the game by sharing hisconsiderable experience in easy-to-digest chunks.
--Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology:
Truth and Lies About Why We Buy Developing the skills to begreat team players and leaders is essential for helping peoplemaximise their potential and contribution to their organisations. This book provides each of us with the inspiration and practicalstrategies we need to help each other be all we can be.
--Sylvia Perrins, Chief Executive Offi cer, NationalSkills Academy Financial Services, United Kingdom
Scores on the Board(TM) skillfully uses the rollercoasterride of the Vikings and their parents as the backdrop to describethe latest research on emotional leadership, learning andengagement. The practical guidelines for application to theworkplace will ensure its place on the top of the desk and not onthe book shelf.
--Tim Ford, Principal -- Leadership Consulting, Heidrick & Struggles
As it does in this fast-paced story, the Scores on theBoard(TM) system can work for anyone who wants to build theirskills and lead their teams to greater performances -- I haveseen it fi rst hand in our stores, call centres and managementteams.
--Chris Bayliss, General Manager -- Retail Banking, Bank of New Zealand
Around the world, the ability of our team leaders to developtheir skills and engage their people is central to our businessgrowth. This book contains the insights and practical strategies tobuild emotional leadership skills and continuous performanceimprovements.
--Peter Flavel, Global Head of The Standard CharteredPrivate Bank

Scores on the Board

The 5-Part System for Building Skills, Teams and Businesses

von Bill Lang

JIMMY IS UNEMPLOYED AND DIRECTIONLESS, and has been ropedinto coaching the local junior soccer team. Peter is a strugglingsmall businessman, trying to grow his business and find time forhis family. Newly single soccer mum Elizabeth is looking for a wayto stay at home, earn an income and still have time to raise herson. David is a career high-flyer on the verge of crashing andburning; his approach to leadership has put his career underthreat, and makes him a poor role model for his son. Scores on the Board brings together these engagingcharacters through the journey of an under 11s soccer team --the Southside Vikings. Using the 5-part Scores on theBoard system, Jimmy transforms the Vikings fromthe easybeats of the competition into an enthusiastic and committedteam of rapidly improving players. Along the way, Jimmy and parentsPeter, Elizabeth and David also learn how to transform theircareers and perspectives on life. Incorporating the latest research from Harvard Business School, the field of neuroscience and practices from some of the world'smost successful professional sports and business teams, Scores onthe Board is a simple, effective system that deliversdramatic results when applied to pursuing goals in personaldevelopment, team-building or business management. This fast-paced, entertaining story will have you cheering forthe Southside Vikings and their inspiring vision of what it meansto be a winner -- regardless of what the scoreboard says. Withthis game plan, Scores on the Board may be thebest investment you ever make.