Written by a coach with over 23 years of experience The Thin Book of® Smart People Skills is a coach in a book. Katina has culled her thousands of hours of coaching into 8 tools to address the most common areas that savvy leaders excel in. The tools are: Understand How You Think Build Relationships Focus on Process Recognize and Acknowledge Emotions Prepare for Conversations Ask Don't Tell Explore Before Problem Solving Foster a Performance Feedback Culture Each chapter includes simple and practical tips that can be applied immediately including up-to-date tips on managing upward, working in both virtual teams and cross-cultural teams. By consolidating these tools in one place, with real-life scenarios, and examples of "how to say it", the book is a valuable reference for knowledge workers, project managers and newer managers. The Thin Book of® Smart People Skills also would make a good introduction to a leadership workshop. Early readers felt it was a great resource for newer managers. Other readers thought it was a wonderful review for experienced leaders. As Katina puts it, "This book offers you succinct and useful tactics that will provide results toward your strategic goals. Applied consistently, these people skills will help you improve relationships and performance."

The Thin Book of Smart People Skills: 8 Tools for the Savvy Leader

Katina Cremona

Business & Money

Thin Book Publishing

This is a small book about a very important subject. A lot has been written about trust: about what it is and what it can do for people, families, companies, communities and countries. Often, good work is being sabotaged by interpersonal conflict, political infighting, paralysis, stagnation, apathy, or cynicism. Almost always, one can trace these problems to a breakdown in trust. It not only kills good work, it also inevitably creates some degree of misery, annoyance, fear, anger, frustration, resentment, and resignation. By contrast, in successful companies where people are innovative, engage in productive conflict and debate about ideas, and have fun working together, one can find strong trusting relationships. Having the trust of those you work with is too important not to be intentional about building and maintaining it. With this book, you will learn how to build and maintain strong trusting relationships with others, and repair trust when it is broken, by being intentional and consistent in your language and actions. Understanding and consistently demonstrating trustworthy language and behavior will help you earn and keep the trust of the people you work with.

The Thin Book of Trust; An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work

Charles Feltman

Business Culture

SOAR is the acronym of a new strategic planning process that is based on discovering and multiplying what the organization does well. SOAR takes the Appreciative Inquiry philosophy and applies it to provide a strategic thinking and dialogue process. The authors have been instrumental in developing this process and will share the concept and case studies to give you the confidence to try SOAR.

The Thin Book of SOAR; Building Strengths-Based Strategy

Jacqueline M. Stavros

Gina Hinrichs

Management & Leadership

This best-selling classic provides a great introduction on what appreciative inquiry is and how to apply it. Sue has updated the 3rd edition with the latest research and many new examples. The Thin Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry is the introduction to the exciting organizational change philosophy called Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry is a way of thinking, seeing and acting for powerful, purposeful change in organizations. It is particularly useful in systems being overwhelmed by a constant demand for change. Appreciative Inquiry approaches change by assuming that whatever you want more of already exists in all organizations.

The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry

Sue Annis Hammond

Strategy is everybody's job - SOAR is the acronym of a strategic planning process based on discovering and multiplying what the organization does well. The 2nd Edition of The Thin Book of® SOAR uses the Appreciative Inquiry philosophy to provide a strategic thinking and dialogue process for all levels of an organization. The new 2nd Edition includes <ul>
<li>Insight on how to use SOAR at different organizational levels, from large divisions to individual coaching</li> <li>Two copies of the updated, pull-out SOAR Reference Card</li> <li>Updated case studies, practical tools and methods</li> </ul>

Thin Book of SOAR: Creating Strategy That Inspires Innovation and Engagement

It's been over 12 years since The Thin Book of Trust was first published. In the new 2nd edition, you'll find more clarifications, ideas to practice, and other additions including a new chapter on how to build trust on a team. An updated, pull-out reference card is also included.

The Thin Book of Trust: An Essential Primer For Building Trust at Work

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