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Exclusive Coached to lead
  • 2006
  • Susan Battley
  • Jossey-Bass
A guide to executive coaching for leaders or those aspiring to leadership positions. Includes how to determine your coaching readiness, how to choose the right coach and how to use a five-step coaching model. Covers common issues as well as not-so-obvious situations and troubleshooting.
Exclusive Coaching and mentoring
  • 2009
  • Eric Parsloe
  • Kogan Page
A book on coaching and mentoring for those who want to help people learn more effectively. It examines how to create practical conversations to improve learning and encourage personal development. It also explores ways in which people interact to help support and improve performance.
Exclusive Concise Adair on teambuilding and motivation, The
  • 2004
  • John Adair, Neil Thomas
  • Thorogood
The book contains chapters on understanding teams and their structures, team roles and team member functions, small group dynamics, motivating employees, team building, employee retention, and a leadership skills checklist.
Exclusive Designing workplace mentoring programs: an evidence-based approach
  • 2009
  • Tammy D. Allen, Lisa M. Finkelstein
  • Wiley-Blackwell
The book includes chapters on planning and providing infrastructure for mentoring, participant recruitment and selection, matching mentors with proteges, training, the mentoring process, programme evaluation.
Exclusive Developing executive talent: best practices from global leaders
  • 2006
  • Jonathan Smilansky
  • Wiley-Blackwell
The book includes chapters on the importance of talent management for long-term business success, an overview of talent management processes, succession management, recruitment, career development, talent management and workplace diversity, brand management, and integrating talent management with other human resource processes.
Exclusive Developing leadership talent
  • 2008
  • Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi
  • Pfeiffer
The book offers guidance on talent management with particular attention to succession planning. It includes chapters on business strategy and organisational needs, leadership skills and competencies, identifying talent gaps, and implementing a strong talent management strategy.
Exclusive Effective people management
  • 2011
  • Pat Wellington
  • Kogan Page
The book includes chapters on team building, personal effectiveness, staff recruitment, performance management, employment issues, implementing change, and career management.
Exclusive Executive coaching: how to choose, use and maximize value for yourself and your team
  • 2005
  • Stuart McAdam
  • Thorogood
The book provides guidance on executive coaching and mentoring. It demonstrates what to expect from a coach, how to identify a good one, and how to take the greatest benefit from their advice.
Exclusive Extraordinary performance from ordinary people: value creating corporate leadership
  • 2007
  • Shaoming Zou, Daekwan Kim, S. Tamer Cavusgil
  • Elsevier
The book looks at how to build a practical leadership model, the different styles of corporate leadership, and the leadership skills required for managing change.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to management : how to be a manager who makes a difference and gets results.
  • 2014
  • Anne Francke
  • FT Press
A guide to becoming an effective manager, full of practical tips and advice on to the everyday challenges of: Managing yourself; Developing communication skills and emotional intelligence; Managing others; Setting strategic direction; Managing change; Managing money, resources and technology.
Exclusive First time manager: the first steps to a brilliant management career, The
  • 2005
  • Michael Morris
  • Kogan Page
Covers communication and presentation skills, leadership, financial principles, human resource management, marketing and PR, organisational structure, and self-development within a management role. It also includes a new chapter on problem solving and time management.
Exclusive Great answers to tough CV problems: CV secrets from a top career coach
  • 2011
  • Jenny Rogers
  • Kogan Page
Covers the purpose of CVs, their role in recruitment, personal brand management, researching employers, communication and presentation skills, formatting CVs, covering letters, and performing live presentations for interviewers. It also includes several template CVs for a variety of job markets and circumstances.
Exclusive How to grow leaders: the seven key principles of effective leadership development
  • 2005
  • John Eric Adair
  • Kogan Page
Examines the theory and practice of leadership and identifies seven key principles for success. It provides a framework for instilling effective leadership skills in an organisation.
Exclusive Improve your coaching and training skills
  • 2008
  • Patrick Forsyth
  • Kogan Page
For managers who do not have the benefit of human resources support. Addresses a range of subjects within staff training and development, including on-the-job coaching, formal training, and assessment of ongoing effectiveness.
Exclusive Inspiring leadership: learning from great leaders
  • 2002
  • John Adair
  • Thorogood
Aims to build leadership skills by taking lessons from famous individuals in history. Includes sections on decision making, the cultural issues affecting leadership skills, and women as leaders.
Exclusive It's not a glass ceiling, it's a sticky floor: free yourself from the hidden behaviours sabotaging your career success
  • 2008
  • Rebecca Shambaugh
  • McGraw-Hill
Aims to build career development skills for women in business. Includes chapters on work-life balance, communication skills, and self-confidence.
Exclusive Woman's place is in the boardroom, A
  • 2005
  • Jacey Graham, Peninah Thomson
  • Palgrave Macmillan
The book makes the case for promoting women to the board of directors. It includes interviews and case studies of women in business to support the argument that board diversity creates more value for shareholders.
Exclusive Woman's place is in the boardroom, A: the roadmap
  • 2008
  • Peninah Thomson, Jacey Graham, Tom Lloyd
  • Palgrave MacMillan
Guide to implementing organizational change to improve gender equality. It is especially concerned with establishing women on the board of directors.
Exclusive Women in business: the changing face of leadership
  • 2008
  • Patricia Werhane, Margaret Posig, Lisa Gundry, Laureal Ofstein, Elizabeth Powell
  • Greeenwood
Covers various experiences of organisational change with a view to increasing the number of women in leadership positions. The book offers a number of models and strategies for implementing change and creating board diversity. The authors interview numerous women in business and report on their experiences of change in organisational culture.
Exclusive Women leading
  • 2005
  • Sue Hayward
  • Palgrave Macmillan
The authors consider the unique skills and abilities possessed by women and how they can be applied in leadership roles. It addresses the changing role of women in business, including increases in board diversity and the number of female leaders in different fields.
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