HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Competency Development – Part II
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: employees at all levels, those seeking to enter or reenter the workforce
Consultant Usage: reference material
What’s it about? Today I continue with the second part of a three part series devoted to suggesting workplace competencies and listing one or two of my all time references for [...]
“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”
Lee Iacocca
Some guide dogs seem to be almost “robotic” but not very warm and lovable. They are easily trained and go on to have a wonderful technical career but once they retire its hard to place them with the long waiting list [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Competency Development – Part I
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: employees at all levels, those seeking to enter or reenter the workforce
Consultant Usage: reference material
What’s it about? I started to put together an end-of-the-year list of the top ten best business books of all time (as determined by me ). Somehow the [...]
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.”
Rosalyn Carter
Ajax, our guide dog puppy in training, just passed his AKC Canine Good Citizens test at 9 months (a bit of surprise because he still like to greet dogs he meets [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Your Next Move: The Leader’s Guide to Successfully Navigating Major Career Transitions
Competencies: career development, self development
Who benefits: employees on a vertical climb
Consultant Usage: career counseling, executive coaching
What’s it about? This is a very narrowly written book, so this review is not for every reader. If it is not for you, [...]
“Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.”
Author Unknown
Results of a new study from the University of Maryland confirm what working parents already know — the expanded work week is undermining family life. In a study of over 500 employees in a Fortune 500 company, researchers concluded that long hours at work increase [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way
Competencies: trust, conflict management, two-way feedback, performance management, coaching, interpersonal effectiveness, empowering others
Who benefits: employees at all levels
Consultant Usage: must read for all executive coaches, counselors, should read by organizational consultants
What’s it about? Let’s begin with my disclaimer. [...]
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters
In a lot of my executive coaching we discuss performance, effectiveness and success. Some executives perceive they are wildly successful using only a narrow way of defining their life–with work being the most important factor despite having poor health, broken family relationships and a [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: 5 Traps of Performance Measurement
Competencies: performance management, performance appraisal
Who benefits: executives, managers, hr professionals
Consultant Usage: extremely important for consultants working on issues of organizational development, organizational design, employee performance, performance measurements
What’s it about? Oh how I love to rant against performance appraisals. Give me any excuse and I am off [...]
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
Babatunde Olatunji
I’ve often been criticized as “speaking” to our seeing eye dog puppy in training as if he truly understands what I am telling him (I guess it is the psychologist in me). I’ve learned that [...]