Review Written by Kathleen Madden
Bill
Thank you for the book recommendation. I purchased it yesterday and finished reading today. Excellent pearls of wisdom and inspiration and totally in sync with what you are teaching us in the BSDG 11. I thank you for this..it gave me renewed perspective on what I am doing with BAI and have just signed up for CAPP and know it to be the right thing to do.
Kathleen Madden
Review Written by Jack Maher
KUSA - It’s not enough to be good at your job anymore. These days you have to be remarkable, and that’s where The Encore Effect comes in. We took a look on 9NEWS 7 a.m.
Leadership expert Mark Sanborn has written a book that offers up advice to make every performance at work worthy of applause. That’s where the encore comes in.
Sanborn demonstrates, through his own experiences as well as those of the people he’s worked with in his career, how you can cultivate the traits shared by remarkable performers and achieve extraordinary results in all aspects of your life. The secrets lie in five steps:
Passion: The fuel for remarkable performance Prepare: How remarkable performance begins Practice: It won’t make you perfect, but it will make you better Perform: How to engage your audience Polish: Making your performance shine
Whether your “stage” is an office, a sales floor, the boardroom, or your own home, Sanborn’s goal is to help you shine in every situation where it matters most.
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Recent feedback about the book from Angela Santomero
Mark Sanborn’s visionary book, The Encore Effect, illuminates the principles of success that have guided my entire career! This book gives you the tools and inspiration to engage your audience, and create memorable performances. In my line of work, engaging the audience is critical to success. I created the preschool hit television shows Blue’s Clues and Super Why by staying true to what makes preschoolers laugh, learn and talk back to the TV. By being passionate about my vision we changed the role of the preschool viewing audience. Whether your chosen audience is 5…or 55, The Encore Effect shares the secrets of achieving remarkable repeat performances!
Angela Santomero
Review Written by Scott Halford
Complete Intelligence, Inc. Creating bottom line
results through the power of people.
You know it in your gut when you see it, and you’re certain when it’s missing. The lack of it is jaw-dropping; stunning in its awkwardness like a good episode of NBC-TV’s The Office. The use of it is usually awe-inspiring, much like watching an Olympic athlete fall into a pile of tears after unexpectedly coming from behind to win the gold. It’s the elusive set of behaviors we experience in ourselves and others that define the difference between success and fulfillment and failure and derailment. It’s emotional intelligence (EI) and if it’s not a part of your Encore, you’re missing out on one of the things that will set you apart from the mediocre.
The term emotional intelligence has been floating around for over a decade now, but it is still misunderstood for the powerhouse that it is. So, what is EI and where does it come from? Simply put, it’s a set of attributes and competencies that predict workplace and overall life success by up to two times greater than technical expertise and intellect (IQ). Combined. If you don’t have it, your subject-matter-expert peers who do have it will zoom past you on the way to achieving what they want in life.
EI informs passion, preparation, practice, performance and polish. It puts the sparkle in them all. It’s not so much the “what” of your Encore, it’s the how, and EI gives you grace and eloquence as people come back to you over and over again. We want to be around it. We’re attracted to it. It’s what makes us want the Encore from you.
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Review written by Julie Marks Miller
VP, Training and Leadership Development, ADP, Inc.
The greatest opportunity in leading people within an organization is the chance to inspire others to reach for their dreams and achieve beyond what they thought possible. Recognition is the most basic human need and perhaps best explains how having a genuine passion for people can build relationships and ignite performance. Personalizing every associate interaction enables them to truly understand their value and vital role within the organization. Focusing on the people instead of metrics and consistently acknowledging their contributions and successes, both big and small, cultivate loyalty while nurturing excellence.
I have found that my genuine passion for people has led to organizational cultures where remarkable performance is the norm. This passion becomes contagious. I have watched teams transform their focus from how they make an impact in their jobs to how they make a positive difference globally within the company regardless of functional role or title.
Review Written by Stephen J. Hopson
Former Merrill Lynch Stockbroker where he won numerous
sales awards and recognition in the coveted Executive
Club. Today he speaks around the country and is a
contributing author to three books.
Remarkable performance is not without risk. There’s a certain level
of risk that comes with standing out from the crowd. It takes
courage, inner strength and a strong vision to be remarkable.
My personal philosophy is that we cannot hope to be remarkable if we aren’t willing to stick out our necks in the process. When we step forward, we risk possible failure, potential ridicule and personal rejection from those who don’t understand what we are trying to do.
I’ve been taking risks and entertaining the possibilities as far back as I can remember. Some of the chances I took were met with failure while others were met with astounding success.
Mark talks about the power of passion throughout “The Encore Effect.” To me, that is one of the single most important factors in creating for ourselves the possibility of being an individual who consistently turns in remarkable performance. While I recognize that passion can come and go in short bursts, it is still a vital component because without it, all the obstacles we are certain to face can seem that much more insurmountable.
During high school, I was on the swimming team. While I was not a “hot dog,” (a term given to swimmers who broke local, state and/or national records), I was considered “useful” to the team.
Review Written by Joe Calloway
Branding Consultant, Business Author,
and restaurant owner. Best selling
author of “Becoming a Category One”
In November 1965 I attended my first rock concert. I was thirteen years old and the concert was at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first American tour for The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards weren’t that much older than me at the time, and I will forever remember their performance. The energy and enthusiasm was even more memorable than the unique and formidable talent that they brought to the stage. As the saying goes, they left it all on the floor. They didn’t hold back. And they got a monumental standing ovation demanding an encore.
Flash forward thirty-three years. Summer of 1998, Vanderbilt University football stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the most recent of many, many tours for The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were well into middle age, and you had to wonder how Richards even got up in the morning, much less made it onto the stage. His craggy and wrinkled face was evidence of almost forty very hard years on the road, playing some of the same songs for decades. But once the music started, they were teenagers again, as was everyone in the audience. At the end of the concert, they got a monumental standing ovation demanding an encore.
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Review Written by Michael Peterson
Contributing author to best seller
“Chicken Soup for the Soul” series
Multiple #1 hits in gospel and country
music. Multiple Grammy and CMA Nominees
Whether you want to win that new account or inspire your family and friends, bestselling author and acclaimed speaker Mark Sanborn shows us how to make every performance count.
Every day, we are called to perform- at work, at home, in our communities. But is it possible to make every performance outstanding, the kind that leaves people applauding for an encore?
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Review Written by Jill Chambers
Special Assistant to the Chairman for Returning Warrior Issues
Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I was completely inspired by Mark Sanborn’s book, The Encore Effect, and most specifically I was moved by his thoughts on levels of commitment. As I took time to reflect on these six levels to my current position serving as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Returning Warrior Issues, I see how they have served me well - I just didn’t know I was using them.
Now being mindful of what Mark has shared and applying it to understanding the challenges understanding possible solutions for care of our Returning Warriors, I realize now the significance my journey. In any endeavor where you are looking for the remarkable performance, commitment levels are directly proportional to intended outcomes. If you try and skip one or several thinking you can reach innovation quickly there’s a good chance you will miss the mark. But by taking your time to master each level, there’s where you can find a shift away from the noise to a place of understanding, listen with an open mind and discover thoughtful solutions. As I began to search for ways to support the Chairman, I was off to a great start - I was interested!
