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Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life
Laura Whitworth , Karen Kimsey-House , Henry Kimsey-House , and Phillip Sandahl Manufacturer: Davies-Black Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0891061983 |
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A newly revised edition of the book that helped define the coaching profession, Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership, define the skills required for success, provide dozens of sample coaching conversations, and a power-packed Coach's Toolkit of over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to make these proven principles and techniques eminently practical and immediately actionable.Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-09-16
A go-to book on coaching........2007-08-28
What everyone needs to know.......2007-08-05
the best coaching book.......2007-06-29
Your Gate way to Coaching profession.......2007-05-28
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Self-Help Stuff That Works
Adam Khan Manufacturer: YouMe Works ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0962465674 |
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This is a no-nonsense, practical self-help handbook written in a friendly, entertaining, and concise style. The chapters are short and devoid of bull, frills, and hype. All you'll find are ideas that work written in such a way that it is enjoyable and interesting to read and leaves you with solid tools you can use to better your life. You will learn how to become more effective with your actions and feel good more often.Customer Reviews:
Excellent!.......2007-05-18
It DOES really help.......2007-05-13
Brilliant.......2007-01-10
Everything you (really!) need to know........2006-12-08
really helpful stuff.......2006-08-09
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Management Skills for Everyday Life: The Practical Coach (2nd Edition)
Paula Caproni Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131439685 |
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Written in a very straight-forward and practical, yet research-based, style that users, regardless of their age/gender/nationality/race/etc. find engaging because it focuses on their personal need to enhance their effectiveness, career potential (e.g., salaries, promotions, job choice and flexibility), and general well-being (the book takes work/life issues seriously). The book begins by summarizing the research that focuses on what characteristics predict managerial and professional success and which characteristics predict failure. The subsequent chapters then present each of the characteristics that predict success in more detail, as well as tools and techniques for enhancing readers' personal and professional success. For beginning to mid-level executives.Customer Reviews:
Paula helps students gain personal mastery.......2007-09-05
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Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
Susan Komives , Nance Lucas , and Timothy R. McMahon Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787909297 |
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Download a free Instructor's Manual.My students have been searching for a leadership book that they don't have to translate to their experiences. At last, here is a book that integrates cutting edge ideas of leadership with examples and stories from college students.
Kathleen E. Allen, vice president for student development, College of Saint Benedict
Exploring Leadership fills a gap in the literature of leadership, providing a carefully-crafted student guide structured to the needs of leadership training courses for students. It helps students assess their own potential for leadership, gives them a concise grounding in major leadership concepts and theories, and takes them through a contemporary leadership approach that equips them for the challenges of providing leadership in groups, communities, and organizations.
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6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses
Stephen E. Kohn Manufacturer: Career Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1564148327 |
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"This is a wonderful book for managers to read. It is comprehensible, concise and filled with useful wisdom on the human aspects of leadership."Mike Wilk, Partner and Practice Leader, Ernst & Young
"The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses provides an excellent training model that a manager can both fully appreciate and easily implement."
Raymond G. Steitz, V.P. of Global Human Resources, Warner Chilcott Laboratories
People management can be the most rewardingand frustratingpart of a leader's job. What aptitudes are valued most in managers and executives? Substantial research and a wealth of shared organizational experience demonstrate that it is a manager's "people skills" that truly make the difference.
In The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses, co-authors Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell present an easy-to-read, sensibly presented review of six indispensable human relations practices used by the bosses everyone admires - and likes to work for - the most. With a combined fifty years of experience helping companies resolve "people problems" in the workplace, management coaches and leadership trainers Kohn and O'Connell guide managers through a sensible, incremental model of supervisory "people skills" development.
The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses also provides a means for managers to coach themselves toward goals that they are encouraged to set for themselves, and the end result is not only knowledge gained, but also greater applied supervisory competency. By practicing the strategically conceived exercises, managers can apply the recommended skills to real workplace supervisory challenges.
For the busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this book can become a springboard for solid professional growth and accelerated success in the development of all-important people management skills.
Stephen E. Kohn has twenty-five years of experience as a management coach, counselor and therapist, specializing in the workplace. Kohn practices in White Plains, NY.
Vincent D. O'Connell has twenty-seven years of experience in behavioral sciences and healthcare. He specializes in corporate training, curriculum development, content development and human resources consulting. O'Connell lives and works in Bethlehem, PA.
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My boss needs to read this.......2007-01-12
6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses.......2006-03-17
Models of exceptional supervisory skills are presented for any interested in honing better leadership skills.......2006-01-07
Managers must read!.......2005-10-21
Managers must read!.......2005-10-21
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Leadership Through People Skills
R. E. Lefton , Victor Buzzotta , and R. Lefton Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071420355 |
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The pioneers of the Dimensional Model for managerial behavior demonstrate how to master skills that boost productivity
Robert Lefton and Victor Buzzotta, cofounders of Psychological Associates, have revolutionized managerial procedure with their Dimensional Model--a behavioral standard that has been adapted and imitated by companies all over the world.
Leadership Through People Skills outlines this model, as the authors explain in detail how people skills work and provide exercises designed to improve them. They also offer strategies for using these skills in the right situations, at the right times, in the right ways with direct reports, peers, and bosses.
Managers will learn how to improve their:
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good general book.......2007-01-28
Another 2 X 2 Personality Grid book.......2004-12-22
LTPS may have been the original? or one of the early ones, and in on its 3rd re-worked title, but I got that been there done that feeling.
There are too many books in my library, and this one is off to the used bookstore. It's not a bad book, but how many 2 X 2 type grid books does a person need!
True Grit, No Fluff.......2004-01-11
Though this book did not 'revolutionize' the way I manage, like Blanchard/ Hersey's 'Management of Organizational Behavior,' or Aubrey Daniels' 'Bringing Out the Best in People' did, this is a very useful book. It really illuminates the Blake/ Mouton Managerial Grid, and the Ohio State and Michigan studies that spawned the Grid, through clear, concrete examples. And this exposition is necessary, since these very important topics are usually glanced over in five pages in most Management/OB texts.
This book packs a ton of strategies for driving performance into its 225 pages. By sticking to scientifically sound principles, its recommendations appear right on track, placing just enough tension into the system to get results. As to its effectiveness, hit me up in a couple of months. However, as a down-to-earth, practical guy, I have a very strong gut feeling that the strategies in this book are right on target.
Scientific approach to people skills.......2003-11-17
1)The authors are PhD in Psychology and their viewpoints are backed by empirical psychological studies. You won't find BS management theories in this book.
2)Very few pages are wasted. The authors apparently do not believe in writing fillers to sell a thicker book for a higher price.
3)The scientific approach to dealing with different management types is refreshing. It is not something that is found in most leadership/management books.
4)The book is helpful even if you are not in managment. The theories and suggestions outlined in this book can apply to one's personal life.
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Human Relations in Business: Developing Interpersonal and Leadership Skills (with InfoTrac®)
Michael G. Aamodt , and Bobbie L. Raynes Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0534355080 |
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This applied text, designed to increase the student's human resource skills, is a self-contained text, workbook, and study guide-all for one price. Written in a conversational style using stories, real-world examples, and humor, the book is sure to engage the reader. The authors include free-writes, case studies, projects, and personality tests to help students apply what they have read. The pages are perforated to make it easier for students to hand in their projects.
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Interpersonal Skills for Leadership (2nd Edition)
Susan M. Fritz , Joyce Povlacs Lunde , William Brown , and Elizabeth A. Banset Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 013117343X |
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This practical resource provides an introduction to interpersonal skills theories which are reinforced through experiential activities. Coverage focuses on the development of the basic interpersonal skills necessary to become a successful leader. Addresses such topics as: skills in journaling; methods for less stressful and more rewarding lifestyles; active learning; critical-thinking skills; service learning; communicating online; active listening; nonverbal communication; perception; self-concept and self-esteem; time management; and cross-cultural communication. For use as a guide for servant leadership professionals.Customer Reviews:
Good condition.......2005-10-03
The best book for teaching leadership to youngsters...........2002-01-24
This is by far the best I have seen so far. I especially liked Ch 7, Creating the Vision and Establishing Goals, and Ch 14, Responding With Empathy.
A communication-based leadership book that delivers!.......1999-05-20
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Group Leadership Skills: Interpersonal Process in Group Counseling and Therapy
Mei-whei Chen , and Christopher J. Rybak Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0534252672 |
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Trainees in group counseling and therapy often struggle to integrate an array of theories and concepts into practice, but to no avail. This group counseling book helps counselor/therapist trainees bring together the concepts of group work with the reality of working with complex group phenomena. It provides a productive, growth-promoting experience for learning group leadership. As readers learn and apply the material in Chen and Rybak' s book, they will build the repertoire of knowledge, skills and intervention techniques that they'll need as they embark on the restorative and rewarding--yet often complex and challenging--process of becoming a group practitioner. The book's five conceptual bases--interpersonal processes, experiential learning, the power of the here and now, process-focused leadership, and self as the instrument--set out the principles for successful leadership and meaningful client change. The practical methods discussed within this effective, coherent framework help readers learn how to bring about therapeutic change for group members within a brief time period. This time-sensitive feature of the framework is especially precious as "cost containment" becomes a health care thrust in our era. The book functions as a step-by-step guide, from basic to advanced skills, as a means to help group leaders acclimate the group through the group process.Customer Reviews:
Excellent book a must read for group counseling.......2007-07-26
Ideal textbook for group counselors in training and in practice........2007-05-05
A Valuable Reading Experience.......2003-12-11
I like the book's many strengths (clear examples, helpful exercises, accessible and fluid language), but if I have to single out its greatest strength, then it would be its roadmap approach to the group process. As I read the book, I find myself challenged to examine my own ideas and beliefs as they relate to the field. I have to ask myself what my basic assumptions are about the interpersonal process. Starting from the beginning chapters, this book helps me establish a solid foundation from where I start my leadership journey.
Part Two (Basic Leadership Skills) of this book will be especially helpful for the beginning, less experienced group leaders. It takes the reader through the stepwise approach of starting a group from scratch, leading the first session, establishing a session's pace and feel, working on members' agendas, and working with tension and conflict. Chapter 6 "Working on Agendas" especially provides the readers with a powerful roadmap to follow. With its accessible language, a young counselor does not feel intimidated by the process, but instead, empowered.
Part Three (Advanced Leadership Skills) adds the flesh and muscle to the skeleton. This part can be extremely beneficial for the counseling students, although it really outlines the skills of a veteran group therapist. I love the way Chen and Rybak illustrate how counseling is more than just a series of skills and theories, but a very precise art that takes patience, touch, balance, and know-how. The advanced skills gives the readers something to strive for, while at the same time, further providing the veterans with challenges and approaches that keep the art fresh. Topics that I take special note include: Taking Risks in Communication, Stirring the Pot, and the Hot-Seat Method. Many excellent models for these advanced methods are provided.
I appreciate the authors' emphasis on the importance of reflective journal writing by the members and narrative session notes by the leaders. Throughout the text, Chen and Rybak offer excellent writing samples for both the group members and for the group leader. I like the way the authors close the circle by asking the reader to search inside for his own therapeutic voices and by challenging the reader to continue to grow and to live by the creative edge.
What I take most from the book, even more than the powerful skills and approaches offered, is the compassion, respect, and enthusiasm that the authors show for their subjects. They truly believe in the art of group counseling and the art of leading a successful group. They believe in the power of group. That passion permeates each page and washes over the reader. This book, in many ways, transcends the counseling field and speaks of truths that can be applied to all fields. I gained so much from this book and I will continue to use it as I continue to grow as a counselor, and more importantly, as a person. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the helping profession, especially students, and to anyone who wants to better his or her leadership and communication skills.
A book that is a personal mentor to me.......2003-12-04
When I read other books, the information felt distant to me. However, when I was reading Chen and Rybak, I felt that I was experiencing what actually goes on in real group sessions. Through the numerous case examples and reflection excerpts, I can see the problems, challenges, and breakthroughs that members and leaders might experience in the forming, storming, norming, and working stages. They truthfully and thoughtfully reflect the group dynamics and interpersonal processes. Now, I can fully appreciate the powerful effect that group interaction can have on individuals.
The way the book is written makes me feel confident that I can apply the knowledge and skills in my practice with all types of groups be it substance abuse groups, adolescent groups, elderly groups, ACOA groups, or groups of any other purpose. The book is written in the sequence of how a group progresses in its full life course and addresses all sorts of interpersonal dynamics even including those not easily recognized by the untrained eye. Therefore, it is quite adaptable to a wide range of group work.
Among the advanced leadership skills, I find the seven principles of constructive confrontation to be a guide or a blueprint in taking effective risks in communication not only in my professional life, but also in my personal life. It is a shame that I did not have the opportunity to learn these important skills earlier in my life, but I am grateful to have discovered them now in this book.
To those faint-hearted individuals, the hot-seat method and the method of stirring-the-pot in the working stage might appear a bit intimidating, but to me I find them to be extremely powerful interventions. I witnessed the hot-seat method and the method of stirring-the-pot to have the ability to evoke more intimate self-disclosure and in-depth interpersonal discovery, which are rare occurrences in our daily lives. Therefore, I consider these methods in this book to be gems in the world of counseling.
I want to say again how much I appreciate the sample leader responses provided throughout the book. What is unique about them is that these sample leader responses use compassionate and sincere language. When I read these samples, I feel like I can see myself using them in my practice. They are not the typical textbook jargon, but rather they resonate an empathic nature which speaks more from the heart than the head.
I was happy to find that multicultural sensitivity is placed in the context of conflict resolution. In our society, we rarely admit that diversity can create tension in a very subtle way that is beyond our language to explain, creating an atmosphere of discomfort and potential for misinterpretation. Chen and Rybak offer a conflict resolution method that brings about healing and resolution directly to the parties involved and insight to other members.
I feel this book is very consoling because it speaks to new leaders like myself. It helps us realize that we will face challenges and setbacks, but it also offers us hope that if we continue to practice, experiment, and trust our creative force within ourselves, we may master the art of group leadership one day.
I feel that this book acts as a personal mentor for me. Of all the textbooks I have read throughout my graduate study, no other book has had such a striking impact on me. I can see myself continuously consulting and reviewing the book when leading a group because the descriptions and examples are so realistic, focused, and concise. I highly recommend this book!
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Training in Management Skills
Phillip L. Hunsaker Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0139550143 |
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