This revised edition, based on interactions with hundreds of team coaches
around the world, reflects increased understanding of the complexity of teams
and what supports and undermines performance. It provides team coaches with a
new and intensely practical toolkit for working with teams at all levels.
The book explores the shortcomings of traditional succession planning in modern business, revealing that a staggering 70% of plans fail within two years due to insufficient management support. It challenges the effectiveness of conventional methods for identifying future leaders, emphasizing the need for a more adaptive approach in a fast-paced environment. By examining the factors that lead to poor leadership placements, it offers insights into developing more successful strategies for nurturing talent and ensuring organizational stability.
An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides
critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' relations
between the two countries and its people, through their religion, values, and
history.
Building on the success of 'Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring', this new volume from coaching gurus David Clutterbuck and David Megginson is a practical, pragmatic guide to the knowledge and techniques you need for successful coaching and mentoring
'This book is a must for anyone involved in organizational coaching' Adrian Moorhouse, Managing Director, Lane4 & Olympic Gold MedallistCoaching the Team at Work, 4e is the result of research over 20 years with practicing team coaches and with major corporations around the world. It recognizes that in a complex and constantly evolving business and social environment, teams can only keep up if they adapt frequently. But to adapt, they must have clarity about their internal and external systems and how these contribute to or undermine performance. There are multiple aspects of team function that underpins performance - and each influences and is influenced by the others. This revised edition explores the six most significant aspects:* Purpose and motivation* Systems and processes relating to external stakeholders* Relationships, especially within the team* Systems and processes relating to internal functions (such as quality and decision-making)* Learning (how the team adapts to keep up with the pace of change)* Leadership (how the functions of leadership are exercised within the team)When these aspects are aligned, a team can perform at its best; but when any one or more of the aspects is malfunctioning, the result is underperformance.This book helps team coaches develop their skills to support teams in understanding these complex dynamics and, as a result, in developing more effective ways of working together.
Woven through it all is his decades long relationship with playwright Nicholas
Wright. At times hilarious and always deeply felt, David Lan's deft travels
evoke a wildly varied life in theatre as well as a unique theatre of life.
The aim of this book is to provide the coach or mentor with a wider portfolio of techniques and approaches to helping others than would normally be gained from practical experience or attending a course. In compiling these techniques, the authors have drawn on experience from their coaching and mentoring activities, and added to these with the help of other experienced professionals within the field. They have clustered these into a number of themes, which now make up the framework for the main body of this book.Techniques for Coaching & Mentoring is designed to offer the reader a range of interventions that they can employ when working one-to-one with others. The purpose is to enlarge the range of techniques that you can use in this important work of helping, and thus make it more effective, the book can be used in a number of ·As general preparation – thinking through a range of techniques that you might be faced with in the future and seeing the techniques offered here as extending the range of the possible.·As specific preparation – if you feel stuck with a particular client, use the contents, index and flicking through the chapters as a means of finding something that may help to unlock possibility for the client.·As an agenda for a course on coaching or mentoring where the various techniques for different stages can be used as a source for practice.
"Mentoring in Action" explores the significance of mentoring in human resource management, offering insights into successful and unsuccessful schemes through new case studies. The second edition provides a comprehensive overview, covering topics like mentoring culture, relationship dynamics, and practical applications across various sectors.
How the World's Most Successful Companies Stay on Top Through Today's Turbulent Times
Discusses ten main demands and pressures that companies must confront and explores in detail the management practices of a number of high performing companies such as British Airways, Asda and Marks and Spencer