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Strategic Executive Development--written by three leaders in the field of executive development, James F. Bolt, Michael McGrath and Michael Dulworth--shows how world-class companies use executive development to drive business strategy and affect growth. This important resource presents five strategic uses of executive development that produce demonstrable business impact. Based on empirical data gathered from their extensive research and consulting, and a comprehensive survey of executive development in leading organizations, this book answers the key question: What are the investments in executive development that have the biggest impact? Using illustrative case studies, the authors clearly demonstrate how executive development is being successfully implemented at some of the world's most recognizable and enduring companies, including Texas Instruments. These cases describe what is working and why, offer insights into the key process steps, and show how companies have measured and validated the effects of executive development. Strategic Executive Development offers the framework needed to create an executive development strategy and program that will help your organization achieve measurable business results and develop the executive capabilities needed to win in the marketplace.
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Captures all the flavors of leadership development.......2005-08-09
A great companion to Jim Bolt's other recent book, The Future of Executive Development, this latest book provides a detailed look at all the essential pieces of leadership development that is high impact and strategic to an organization's business. Whatever the specific focus of your leadership effort is--whether the driver for you is high potential development or transformation, this book offers detailed, practical help and examples which will guide your efforts. Clearly written and documented, this is an invaluable guide for leadership development practitioners within organizations as well as consultants like myself.
A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUBJECT OF EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT........2005-08-08
Through case studies from major organizations, the book provides: a framework for developing executive develop strategies, systems and programs; highlights of the state-of-the-art in terms of what approaches are proving most effective and promising for the future; insights on maximizing the yield on investment in development; and evidence of the business impact of executive development and examples of ways companies have measured and validated impact.
The book's nine chapters cover:
trends and forecasts; aligning development strategies and programs with business objectives;
the 5 high-impact uses of executive development;
creating strategic unity and alignment;
successful transition of new executives;
accelerating executive development of emerging leaders;
transforming organizations;
addressing business challenges; and
the business impact of executive development.
Information is provided from a 2004 survey of executive development practices.
Other value-added features include:
design of typical action-oriented learning activities; web-based survey: typical question themes; and
different ways to measure executive development.
Preparing Executives for the Future.......2005-06-17
This book seeks to investigate and explain the"investments in executive development that have the biggest impact." The authors are all executives with Executive Development Associates (edanetworks.com), a leading consulting firm specializing in the strategic use of executive development.
In 2004 EDA cunducted an in depth survey with senior management of nine major companies. This book is largely the result of what these executives had to say combined with the years of experience that EDA has had in preparing specialized training classes for executives.
As people have worked their way up the organization, they have had to develop leadership and numerous other skills. At the executive level they are now faced with new challenges. These particularly involve strategic decisions for which they have not been previously responsible.
Without going into the details of the book, the problems these new executives face include directing the corporation into new organizational forms, bringing new leaders up the chain, and preparing to meet the big changes that are coming in their corporate world. For change is always coming, and to ignore it is to effectively kill the company. What will happen to your company with dramatic jumps in the price of energy? What effect will the Kyoto protocol have? These are the known challenges. You can be sure that the future has a bunch of surprises that executives will have to meet if their companies are to survive.
This book contains not the answers to these problems, but how to prepare executives to effectively face them.
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When it comes to communicating corporate information, the skills of the messenger can make or break a company's reputation in the eyes of shareholders, employees, and the media. Filled with practices, principles, and case studies, this essential guide helps HR professionals hone their skills at delivering information, managing crises, responding to queries, and more. Today's HR professionals work side by side with senior executives to devise a strategy for their organizations and to marshal the talent and resources to implement it. That means going beyond the traditional HR domain and mastering the fundamentals of all aspects of business and management. The Business Literacy for HR Professionals series, developed in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management, covers essential areas such as negotiation, decision making, change management, finance, and more. These highly practical books help HR professionals achieve their goal to be true strategic partners who bring additional bottom-line value to their organizations.
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Power, influence, and persuasion are not only key ingredients for success in the HR field; they are also skills that can be learned
This book offers advice and tools for effectively commanding attention, changing minds, and influencing decision makers from the CEO to front-line managers. Today’s HR professionals work side by side with senior executives to devise a strategy for their organizations and to marshal the talent and resources to implement it.
That means going beyond the traditional HR domain and mastering the fundamentals of all aspects of business and management. The Business Literacy for HR Professionals series, developed in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management, is designed to help HR professionals to do exactly that.
Covering essential areas such as negotiation, decision-making, change management, finance, and more, these highly practical books will help HR professionals achieve their goal to be true strategic partners who bring additional bottom-line value to their organizations.
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This innovative, comprehensive, and fully integrated management development program provides a vehicle for enabling managers and leaders to participate more effectively in their organization's OD processes. The concepts, models, tools, and other materials have been used successfully to train managers, leaders, and MD/OD personnel in organizations such as IBM, AT&T, Kraft, Baxter Labs, Sears, Caterpiller, and the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force. The accompanying CD-ROM contains customizable tools for OD consultants and facilitators as well as additional chapter material.
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Designed to accompany the book, Exercising Influence: A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and In Your Community, the Discussion Guide uses a practical real-world model that will help you facilitate discussions with participants about how to:
- Develop effective influence behaviors and a strategic and tactical approach to influence.
- Plan for influence by preparing, setting clear goals, implementing, and reviewing an influence opportunity.
- Create relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding.
- Accomplish more in organizations with less effort.
- Take charge of their professional lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.
Ideal for trainers, facilitators, and coaches, the Discussion Guide includes both the book and the Self-Study Guide.
Customer Reviews:
Great book, wonderful system that get's results!.......2004-08-04
This book can make it a lot easier to deal with people. Not just difficult people, but everyone in your life. After reading the book and practicing the principles, I began to see how ineffectual many of my influence "tactics" were. They were ineffective in that they didn't help me to get what I wanted, or I did get what I wanted but in a way that made it much harder the next time to get something from that person.
You can apply these influence principles anywhere. I also enjoyed the focus on balance between "receptive" and "expressive" behaviors. It's amazing when you start to use new behaviors how soon you get new results that were near impossible the old way.
Talk the Walk.......2004-07-24
Many books on influence and persuasion give "5 steps" or "10 laws." This book takes you beyond concept and anecdotes, or "the Walk" of inlfuence and gives you the tools to look and your own communication behavior, or "the Talk." In very practical ways, you can begin to assess your own communication choices and make simple alterations that can help you connect with others and talk about the practical matters of getting things done- together!
Finally Found It.......2003-09-19
Exercising Influence is and excellent book! I have read many books on influence and power and this one tops them all. It is based on solid theoretical underpinnings while at the same time being practical, actionable, and straightforward. I plan to use it extensively in my executive coaching practice. It provides lots of models, action steps, and guidelines which can be used by executives at all levels as well as by individuals in other walks of life. I have been hunting for such a practical explanation of a difficult subject. Pleased to say, I have found it in Kim Barne's book1
Jenifer Renzel, President, The Aptos Group, Aptos, California
Practical, insightful and invaluable.......2002-11-03
Exercising Influence reveals many uncommon, unrecognized flaws of casual, ineffective influencing. The author approaches this skill, as you would a physical skill- build up your strengths, address your weaknesses, try and make mistakes. Repeat. Plus, every chapter concludes with application tips. Highly recommended for anyone trying to lead change- at work, home or in communities.
A book of significant value.......2001-02-01
Exercising Influence is one of the most useul books I've read in years. I'm tempted to buy a dozen or so copies as gifts for some of the miserably untalanted negotiators I've encountered in my two decades of practicing law. The book taught me two things (at least) of significant personal value:(1)The skills necessary for selling one's point of view to others can be learned; (2) These same skills overlap and improve one's abilities in the related areas of mobilizing public opinion; motivating partners, employees, and family members; communicating authority; making an impact; exercising leadership at home, in business, and in the community; getting results with and through others; implementing ideas; and making a positive difference. This eminently readable book is filled with charts, graphs, examples, tips, and instructions. What the book teaches is practical and immediately applicable to real-world situations. Kim Barnes'20 years of studying, writing about, and teaching the subject are amply in evidence in Exercising Influence. It deserves, and likely will receive, a wide and receptive readership. Five stars.
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This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains
- A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques
- Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools
- Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations
- Instructions for designing and leading group work
- Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups
- Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects
- Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator
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"This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains
- A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques
- Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools
- Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations
- Instructions for designing and leading group work
- Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups
- Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects
- Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator
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Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations
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Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges, and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work/life balance. Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach -- private or corporate -- and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the "what" and "how" of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models, and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions. Complete with worksheets, exercises, evaluations, and international case studies, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.
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The most recent research into decision-making suggests that the most effective leaders are the ones who are able to adapt their decision-making style over time as their roles and responsibilities change. Discover a proven, easily understandable way to assess decision-making style with the Decision-Making Style Inventory.
The Decision-Making Style Inventory is a validated and reliable 20-item Likert assessment that identifies an individual's decision-making style preference. The assessment measures four dimensions. Two structural styles--Systematic and Spontaneous, and two processing styles--Internal and External. In this Inventory the two dimensions are combined to find a preferred decision-making style: Systematic-Internal, Systematic-External, Spontaneous-Internal, and Spontaneous-Eternal, plotted on a four-quadrant chart. The Inventory is a powerful tool that can be used in numerous developmental situations such as formal leadership training, coaching, and even performance appraisals.
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Leadership and Management for HR Professionals
Keith Porter ,
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This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus.
New end of chapter website links are included. The text is written in an easy-to-read style and each chapter is linked to other relevant parts of the book.
* Provides excellent coverage of the CIPD Leadership and Management Standards
* Includes self-assessment exercises, exam questions, further reading and research
* New edition of the best-selling Core Management by Winfield et al and companion text to Managing Information: Core Management by Bedward and Stredwick
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Trouble on the Inca Trail presents your participants with numerous challenging situations that require them to choose from a set of possible actions that offer the best chance for survival. To begin, they embark on the simulated adventure alone, determining choices by themselves, and then they take the journey as a team member making the decisions by group consensus. Afterward they compare their individual choices with what the group selects and determine whether the group performs better than any one individual alone. Trouble on the Inca Trail comes with a Leader’s Guide and Participant’s Workbook. The Leader’s Guide contains complete instructions for running the simulation and offers suggestions for debriefing discussions that will help participants identify team synergy, consensus, problem solving, and action-planning skills.
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- StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
- Stress-Free Performance Appraisals: Turn Your Most Painful Management Duty into a Powerful Motivational Tool
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- Successful Restaurant Design
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