Leading an organization is different from managing it. Managers want to be efficient. Leaders want to be effective. If you want to develop your leadership skills, the first step is Learning to Lead. Over his distinguished career Warren Bennismaster practitioner, researcher, and theoretician all in one” (Tom Peters)has shown how leaders are made, not born. Here he writes in partnership with Joan Goldsmith, a management development expert known for her team approach, basic humanity, and love of life” (Peter Schneider, President of Walt Disney Feature Animation). Together they help managers build themselves into leaders.Using wisdom from the world's best leaders, helpful self-assessments, and dozens of one-day skill-building exercises, Learning to Lead invites you to discover the joy of leadership. Learn to see beyond leadership myths, translate failures into springboards for renewed creativity, and communicate your vision for your organization. Never has the inspiring art of leadership been presented in such a practical form.

Learning To Lead: A Workbook On Becoming A Leader, Updated Edition

Business & Money

Goldsmith, Joan

Bennis, Warren

Management & Leadership

Basic Books

On Becoming a Leader has sold nearly 150,000 copies since its publication in 1989. This workbook provides a practical way to work out the issues in Bennis' bestselling book, showing readers how to assess present leadership skills and then, through theory and exercises, how to improve problem areas.

Learning To Lead: A Workbook On Becoming A Leader

From leadership expert Warren Bennis, a workbook to help anyone reach their full potential as a leader Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith maintain that leaders are not born, they are made-in fact, anyone can develop the skills to transform their lives and their organizations. In Learning to Lead, these leadership experts have created a program that enables students, staff, managers, executives, public servants, and professionals to discover their own leadership voice. In these pages Bennis and Goldsmith offer the wisdom of world leaders, tools for self-assessment, and exercises for building leadership skills. These lessons enable readers to recognize false leadership myths, translate failures into springboards for creativity, and communicate personal visions that inspire others to produce extraordinary results. An immensely useful workbook and a powerful reformulation of the nature of leadership, Learning to Lead is an invaluable guide to driving your own success and inspiring it in others.

Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader

Bennis, Warren G.

The classic text on resolving workplace conflicts, fully revised and updated Resolving Conflicts at Work is a guide for preventing and resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work, including dozens of techniques for revealing how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace are actually opportunities for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. In the third edition of this text, all chapters are completely infused with additional content, updated examples, and new case studies. Like its predecessors, it identifies core strategies for preventing and resolving both intermittent and chronic conflicts in the workplace. In addition, the book <ul>
<li>Includes a new foreword by Warren Bennis, which represents his most recent thinking about judgment calls and candid communications in the workplace</li> <li>Presents new chapters on leadership and transformational conflict coaching, and organizational systems design</li> </ul>
This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for managers, employees, union representatives, human resource experts, and consultants seeking to maintain stable and productive workplaces.

Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job

Cloke, Kenneth

Business Culture

Jossey-Bass

Learn how personal and organizational conflicts can be resolved by listening closely to the 'stories' people tell when they are in conflict, understanding why people tell their stories in the ways they do, and creating a third story that brings them together. This visionary book is written by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith, two renowned mediators, who have used the narrative structure method successfully in their own mediation practice to move people in conflict from stubbornness, hostility, and fear to openness, collaboration, and forgiveness. Focusing on the transformative power of stories, Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict includes an array of case studies from the authors' first-hand experience with thousands of clients. These case studies include the perspectives of all the parties in the conflict and cover a wide range of conflicts and disputes.

Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Create a new sense of yourself in your organization, a new direction in your life, and a new understanding of your adversaries with this highly practical guide for resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work. Two veteran professionals show you how conflicts-and the process of resolving them-can offer extraordinary opportunities for personal growth, deeper and more satisfying relationships, and enhanced morale.

Resolving Conflicts at Work: A Complete Guide for Everyone on the Job

There is a search in process for a new context and paradigm for the organization of the future-an organization that must be capable of producing high-quality, competitive products that satisfy customers without destroying the planet or degrading human life. The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy calls for a radical set of organizational development initiatives that will combat the destructive forces of globalization, put an end to authoritarian, paternalistic management, and move organizations toward a new "organizational democracy." Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith detail the practical opportunities, alternatives, and models for these new organizations and challenge leaders to transform their workplace environment into one shaped by a context of values, ethics, and integrity. They reveal how a combination of collaboration, self-management, and organizational democracy can break down long-standing boundaries and foster the far-reaching, sustainable changes critical to success in the twenty-first century.

The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy

In The Art of Waking People Up authors Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith draw on more than thirty years of practical experience with hundreds of organizations-- from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, schools, and nonprofits-- to reveal new ways of giving and receiving feedback that maximize personal and organizational change and foster lifelong learning. They show how organizations can develop the systems, processes, techniques, and relationships that affirm, rather than undermine, the intelligence and humanity of their employees. This important resource is filled with the necessary tools, interventions, and strategies managers can use to encourage their employees to speak, hear, absorb, and use the information they need to improve the way they work.

The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work

Here is a completely updated edition of the best-selling Resolving Conflicts at Work. This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work and outlines the authors’ eight strategies that show how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace actually provide an opportunity for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. This new edition includes current case studies that put the focus on leadership, management, and how organizations can design systems to change a culture of avoidance into a culture of creative conflict. The result is a more practical book for today’s companies and the people who work in them.

Resolving Conflicts at Work: Eight Strategies for Everyone on the Job

Every organization generates chronic conflicts, and mediators are increasingly being asked to resolve these conflicts, provide conflict coaching, assist with organizational change, and redesign the systems, structures, relationships, processes, and "conflict cultures" that contribute to costly, chronic, and intractable conflicts. As a result of the pandemic, increasing demands for diversity, and significant economic, political, and environmental upheaval, organizations are experiencing rapid shifts and deep transformations in the nature and experience of work, and the expectations of employees, customers, and society as a whole. These shifts are generating new and systemic forms of conflict that present fresh challenges and opportunities for mediators, coaches, consultants, and conflict resolvers everywhere. This book was designed to assist aspiring mediators and organizational leaders in developing skills in conflict resolution and systems design, and to aid schools, community groups, small businesses, non-profits, corporations, labor unions, social justice organizations, government agencies, and political advocacy groups, as well as couples and families, in preventing and resolving conflicts, and reducing their costs. It is based on the lectures and accompanying materials for a course the authors designed and teach at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, in Malibu, California. The course provides practical frameworks for analyzing and mediating the emotional, interpersonal, and systemic sources of organizational conflict in public and private sector organizations, including corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, work teams, and family businesses. It assists participants in becoming organizational mediators and conflict coaches, and in developing and expanding their capacity to use facilitation, group dialogue, conflict resolution systems design, management theory, leadership and structural dynamics to resolve workplace conflicts. It helps mediators identify preventative and transformational opportunities and discover how to use conflicts to encourage systemic improvement, personal growth, organization learning, strategic change, emotional healing, forgiveness, and transformation.

Resolving Organizational Conflicts: A Course on Mediation & Systems Design

Rules & Procedures

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