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Alchemy for Managers demonstrates how you can develop yourself through the actual experience of managing. Alchemy for Managers shows: - how you can use your practical experience as a self-contained means to develop yourself - without having to go on a course - how your own projects can develop your competence in both leadership and management - how managing external actions and your internal thought processes can be brought together in an integrated, holistic way.
Drawing on the author's wide personal experience, this book shows how to deliver training that facilitates learning. It offers practical guidance on: ensuring that training delivery meets the specific needs of trainees, gathering pre-course information; establishing rapport; taking account of learning preferences; ensuring that pace, presentation and feedback encourage learning; handling training room crises and difficult customers.
In The Plumber, Lee W. Hickok, MD, an alcoholic urologist, is faced with case after case of patients from the skid row of Galveston, Texas, who have had one or both kidneys removed by a surgeon who calls himself the Plumber. These victims are from the dregs of society and drug addiction. Together with law enforcement, he must solve the mystery and stop this butcher. Suspects range from a local urologist to a mysterious Russian emigrant and his esoteric wife to one of his own residency staff. Lee W. Hickok is the protagonist in this series, which goes by his name and includes the novels 606 University and Sweet Amber. He is continuously plagued by resisting his desires for alcohol, which he has given up after sustaining a course of D/Ts in Sweet Amber. The Plumber is a fast-paced who-done-it novel that will leave the reader wanting more.
An invaluable overview of all the activities and functions of training, it also provides useful insights into the skills and competencies needed by everyone involved in training.
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Explores: building rapport and credibility; gaining commitment to change; and harnessing group dynamics and turning conflict to advantage, through insights from Schutz, Bion and Freud.
This volume provides practical guidance on selecting and providing training that is best for the trainees and for the organization. It examines: the nature of training; training choices; setting objectives; the possibilities in composing participant groups; the key dimensions of training design; process interventions; and the particular issues in training mixed personality groups. Interactive case studies illustrate the design points discussed.
Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and democratic values to achieve innovation. Expertly steered by Jaap Boonstra and Leon de Caluwe, it explores tensions and paradoxes in the field of organizational change and presents interventions based in social interaction theory. Its vision is of people collaborating, making sense of their work and living situations and developing collaborative action for breakthrough innovation will be a source of inspiration for any manager, consultant or change agent.
Of interest to all women, especially those who want more from their lives and careers, this book features profiles of high-profile women who have achieved recognition in both their working and personal lives. It also contains tips on careers, salary reviews, stress in the workplace, and childcare.
Includes the Civil service calendar.