High Ten

You Don’t Get The Culture You Wish For. You Get The Culture You Design!And If You Don’t Design Your Culture, Beware That Someone Else Will! High-performance team culture isn’t built in a day. It’s earned through intentional actions and reinforcing behaviors that increase trust and productivity. In High Ten, influential coach Martin Rooney shows you how to make culture the “immune system” of your business or team—using it to eliminate the “5 Culture Killers” while applying the “3 Cornerstones of Culture.” High Ten is the story of Brian Knight, a retired coach who no longer feels needed. After thirty years coaching sport teams and businesses how to improve their culture and communication, Brian finds himself lacking purpose. After a chance meeting, Brian is called upon to use his experiences to help two people: his former athlete Marcus and a young CEO named Sam. Written in an engaging and easy-to-read style, this book shows you the necessary steps to create a supportive culture that brings team members together around your organization’s core values and mission. Based on his two decades of building successful business cultures, coaching professional and collegiate sport teams, and consulting Fortune 500 companies, Martin Rooney uses his gift of storytelling to reveal a leadership manual for “culture coaches” everywhere. High Ten is the tale that team coaches, business owners and managers will turn to again and again for lessons to build a rich and productive team culture. Harness the power of Martin Rooney's acclaimed "Culture Coach" philosophy to build the culture of your dreams Building a great team culture doesn't happen overnight. Culture is hard to create, and even harder to change. Great culture is a key component for success at home, on the sports field, and at the workplace. In a time when people seem to be more divided than ever, leaders who can build strong and lasting cultures are essential. No one knows this better than internationally-renowned coach, in-demand speaker, and bestselling author Martin Rooney—dedicating his life to coach elite athletes, Fortune 500 executives, military leaders, and every kind of team imaginable to their highest level of performance. In High Ten: An Inspiring Story About Building Great Team Culture, Martin draws from his extensive experience developing top-level teams around the world to help leaders of all kinds foster and sustain winning cultures. This engaging, easy-to-read parable shows you that every business, sports team, and family has a culture. Whether you deliberately created it or not, it's always there and it didn’t come with a manual. That's where High Ten comes in. This must-have book is your personal leadership manual. Stop spending your day unhappy or complaining about a dream that hasn’t come true. High Ten will help you: Create an environment where your people work towards common goals with friends they trust—have fun doing it Develop clarity about the culture you want and put the processes in place to make it happen Ensure your culture reflects core values and aligns with your organization’s mission and vision Transform your culture into the "immune system" for your team or business Learn about the "3 Cornerstones of Culture" and eliminate the "5 Culture Killers" High Ten: An Inspiring Story About Building Great Team Culture is an invaluable resource for all coaches and leaders striving to achieve the highest level of culture—one where everyone feels like a valuable part of the team and consistently produces exceptional results.