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Winning with Difficult People (Barron's Business Success Guides)

Arthur H. Bell, Dayle M. Smith

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Compact, informative and value-for-money 5 out of 5 stars.
26 of 26 people found this review helpful.

I initially bought this book for my husband, who was having a difficult time at work with his boss. My husband has huge praises for the book and now that I have finished reading it, I've come to understand why. Arthur and Dayle have managed to consolidate and present strategies on how to deal with difficult people in a handy and easy-to-read book. Even if you don't find time to read, you can easily read some pages on the way to work in the train. A questionaire helps you to identify what type of person you are, and explains the different personality types, helping you to see why yome people react in certain ways. You will realise eventually why you seem to always clash with a certain personality group. This book gives you tips on how you can handle 'difficult' people and helps you to have a clearer picture of yourself. For all you know you may be the S.O.P. (Source Of Pain) that others are experiencing!!

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The authors point out twelve difficult personality types that can be found in business environments, then offer tips to help readers understand what makes them tick and how the rest of us can best cope with them. Advice includes methods for transforming potential problems into "getting-ahead" advantages.

Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice

Patrick Williams, Deborah C. Davis

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Helping "Helping Professionals" Reclaim Their Passion 5 out of 5 stars.
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This a an extraordinary book that belongs on the shelves (and in the heart) of every therapist AND every coach. Frankly, I've heard Pat Williams speak, so I fully expected to like the book, but even so, I was surprised by just how good, how inspiring, practical and helpful it is. Williams and Davis do a great service for mental health workers, counselors, social workers and Psychologists by affirming the power of what "we" do, and by expanding the boundaries within which we operate. At the same time, they also provide a great reminder for coaches of what WE do, how we do it, and how powerful it is!

The book is elegantly laid-out, easy to follow and powerfully practical. The heart of the message is that caring for and WITH people truly matters. Whether we are labeled as "mental health practitioners" or "spiritual ministers" or coaches, we all use highly sophisticated skills, some that are ancient and timeless, and others that are new and scientifically "proven," to help people transform their lives.

The book is directly aimed at "helping professionals." The message is that what mental health professionals do is IMPORTANT, even if insurance companies and (at times) our culture fails to appreciate it. Williams and Davis present practical, do-able paths that allow professionals to reclaim their independence and do the work they love and are trained to do well.

The exciting part of the book for me, as a Psychologist who has already transitioned into coaching, was the delightful, passionate reminder of what coaches actually DO! While this is an introduction or over-view of coaching, I found the reminders, the affirmations, and the passion extremely helpful. As "people experts" it is good to be reminded of how much we know, how skilled we are, how many "tools" we have in our toolbox!

I found the book easily readable, very well-thought-out, and helpful. I highly recommend it for (1) anyone considering entering the field of coaching, (2) mental health professionals who are tired or restless and looking for a new challenge, and (3) for coaches who want a helpful survey of the skills and strengths we bring to our work. All three groups will get a tremendous lift and find it a helpful read.

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This text for health professionals considers the transition into the dynamic field of life coaching. It explores life coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals considering either a transition into coaching or expanding their practices to include coaching. This work is one-stop-shopping for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching field. Chapters include: the history and evolution of life coaching; therapy and coaching; distinctions and similarities; getting started as a life coach; the basic life coaching model; developing and marketing your life coaching practice; and self-care for life coaches.

Safety Management: A Human Approach

Dan Petersen

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Safety Management: A Human Approach 5 out of 5 stars.
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Techniques of Safety Management: A Systems Approach, Fourth Edition

Dan Petersen has made enormous contributions to occupational safety and health and this fourth edition of Techniques of Safety Management continues the tradition. This book is a companion volume to Techniques of Safety Management: A Human Approach. A systems approach emphasizes systems but also includes information about the human element.
Petersen discusses numerous changes occurring in the rapidly evolving safety field. For readers who have an earlier edition of this book, the best thing about the fourth edition is the updated material - both revised and new. Petersen does a nice job updating relevant information and including pertinent new topics such as statistical safety control, ISO standards, fault trees for specific safety system elements, and Six Sigma.
The book is well organized into six parts. The first part provides a thorough historical framework of safety including recent changes affecting safety professionals. Petersen has a unique ability to see the big picture and yet skillfully dissect and clearly explain specific techniques successful safety professionals need. He reviews ten safety management principles, then covers the related roles, drivers, and measurement involved in managing safety in Part two.
Part three and four cover proactive and reactive system elements. These are important concepts for safety professionals and safety students to comprehend, because (in the reviewers' opinion) proactive approaches and effective reactive approaches are not commonly performed very well in safety management. Proactive safety approaches are unfortunately missing in many organizations. Proactive topics include changing behavior, changing physical conditions, using ergonomics, and changing the management system. The section on proactive system elements covers about 100 pages and includes valuable information on topics such as motivation, measurement, and risk analysis.
Additional system elements such as complying with OSHA, fleet safety, product safety, and other safety-related programs are reviewed in part five. The Appendix includes over 20 fault trees for safety system elements. Examples of system safety elements include supervisory performance, effective discipline, effective training, support for safety, and management credibility. These are unique to my knowledge and potentially very useful to the safety professional. The book is worth purchasing for these "fault trees" alone.
Petersen emphasizes research as an underlying criterion for sound decisions. He includes a wide variety of studies and authors, and draws upon extensive real world innovations and best practices. The book is replete with useful checklists, templates, and meaningful exhibits. Many of the checklists and formulas are ready for the reader to customize for their own use. One example provided and explained in detail is the Justification Formula. The Justification Formula is used to assess risks, and "provides both Safety and Management with guidance in deciding whether the cost of a proposed safety project is justified...and gives a solid foundation upon which Safety may base its recommendations for corrective action" (p.179). The Justification Formula appears to be a genuinely valuable tool for safety professionals.
The book has the broad aim to be of value to students, safety professionals, industry specialists, part-time safety specialists in industry, line managers, private consultants, and insurance safety engineers. Each of these groups should find Petersen's book a helpful guide containing numerous tools and techniques they can effectively use.

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This book describes the essential elements of a behavior-based safety program as well as describing some of the barriers to full implementation. The author also discusses how to evaluate supervisory performance and training methods. Drawing on his training and expererience in industrial psychology and organizational behavior, Dr. Petersen presents a model for teaching safe behavior and building a safe work environment. Approaches to encouraging greater participation in safety programs are examined. The author also examines what effects stress has on safe behavior, and the need for wellness programs. Substance abuse effects on worker behavior are explored and recommendations for developing an employee asssitance program in substance abuse are presented.

Managing Your Self: Management by Detached Involvement (Developmental Management Series)

Jagdish Parikh

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A must read for Covey fans! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

While Covey calls it the "gap", Parikh expands this concept with "centering". One of the top five self development books I have read. Parikh has you look at life from an eastern perspective, but with a western utility.Highly recommended!

East and west business culture and education comes together 4 out of 5 stars.
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Never read a book with practical knowledge from east and west. Old knowledge in a serious new age style. For highermanagement a nice combination of insight of mind, body and emotions. A lot of practical models and systeems that you can use the next day in your organisation. Full of figures and cartoons. Very pleasand to read. I use this book as a gift in my excecutive coaching.

5 years later, still unbeatable 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book 5 years ago and since then I bought and read plenty of similar. But this one really presents, in a plain and practical language, all the subjects (and problems) I meet in my daily work!

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Managing Your Self is a unique and ground breaking guide to increasing personal and professional effectiveness in a business context. Now available in paperback, the book shows students and managers how to contribute effectively and progressively to their organizations while enjoying more effective, dynamic and satisfying professional and personal lives.

Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies (Lea's Organization and Management)

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Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies is the second major publication of GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), a groundbreaking, large-scale project on international management research featuring contributions from nearly 18,000 middle managers from 1,000 organizations in 62 countries, perhaps the largest project of its kind ever undertaken. This volume effectively presents a complex collection of global research addressing the culture of particular countries, leadership qualities within those countries, and recommendations on how managers should conduct business in countries other than their own.

A massive effort with a cross-cultural focus and broad international appeal, this book explores:
*how leadership is conceptualized and enacted in its cultural milieu;
*quantitative data including middle manager questionnaires, unobtrusive measurement, and participant observation data;
*qualitative research from interviews, focus groups, and media analyses; and
*theoretical and methodological pitfalls that arise in the effort to develop universal management theories.

This book is a coherent and well-organized presentation of the findings of the GLOBE Project and will appeal to scholars in leadership, management, international business, cultural studies; and also to practicing managers.

Career Choice and Development

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Satisfactory Reviews of Career Development Theories 4 out of 5 stars.
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Brown presents a very readable and thorough synopsis of various career development theories. A very useful tool for instructors of career development classes including undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Including six new chapters on current advances in theory development and applications, this third edition explores a broad range of career development topics. Discussion includes: the reasons people choose their careers; how changes in interests, skills and motives occur throughout the life cycle; and how people do or do not change and adapt to their careers. The book then illustrates how to harness this knowledge to tailor career counselling and planning services to the distinct needs of clients from diverse backgrounds, at different stages of life and at various occupational levels.

You Can Be Happy: The essential guide to a healthy body, mind & soul

Amanda Gore

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Gore uses humour and personal experience to help us change our attitudes and realize our goals. From stressbusting techniques to understanding our partners better, You Can Be Happy helps us view life from a different perspective.

Training in Organizations: Needs Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (with InfoTrac®)

Irwin L. Goldstein, Kevin Ford

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In this extensive revision of his best-selling text, Irwin Goldstein, a leader in the training field, teams up with Kevin Ford, well-known for his work in "the learning organization," to provide readers with a framework for examining and establishing viable training programs in education, business, and government. Capturing the excitement of training research and systems issues, the author discusses training as it occurs in real organizations. Part I focuses on societal training issues, how organizations conduct assessments to understand their training needs, and significant issues in learning and instruction. Part II focuses on the evaluation process, and Part III reviews training programs and procedures.

Culture's Consequences, International Differences in Work-Related Values (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology)

Geert Hofstede

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"This important book is based on a monumental study of the sales subsidiaries of a major multinational corporation which operates in 39 countries in the world. Since, in all countries, the respondents do the same work . . . and since the formal organization structure is the same everywhere, the important differences found in work attitudes and values can be ascribed to cultural differences among the countries. The author found four major dimensions for classifying cultures across the world: (i) power distance . . . (ii) uncertainty avoidance . . . (iii) individualism . . . (iv) masculinity. . . . The author also proposes some interesting theories to explain how cultures come to be as they are, which combine climate, economic development and historical process." --The Good Book Guide for Business "One of the most significant comparative organizational studies to date." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "Important scientific books may be classified according to two types. . . . The second type includes those books which people like to have close at hand and consult for reference. There is little doubt that this book belongs to the second category." --Journal of Management Studies "What the author has done has been to analyze questionnaire results obtained in some 40 different countries, applied to employees of a large multinational American company, and to use the results for extracting dimensions along which to compare these different cultures, and then to evaluate and discuss the resulting groupings. . . . The book is full of interesting and important findings. . . . It should certainly be studied by anyone in the field." --New Society "Hofstede has produced an ingenious, careful, and richly stimulating book that will certainly be useful to all those concerned with managing multinational and multicultural organizations. . . . The book offers educators a new conceptual framework and a bank of data that will be highly useful in teaching." --Academy of Management Review "An important, sophisticated and complex monograph. . . . Both the theoretical analysis and the empirical findings constitute major contributions to cross-cultural value analysis and the cross-cultural study of work motivations and organizational dynamics. This book is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in a historical or anthropological approach to cross-cultural comparisons." --Personnel Psychology "One cannot help admiring the effort that went into this book and ending up more knowledgeable and wiser for having read it." --Contemporary Sociology "Should be read by every manager about to embark on an international or intercultural work assignment. To benefit most from his ideas requires great concentration on the part of the reader, but it is worth the effort. The manager should be able to substantially improve his (most international managers are men) effectiveness by applying his understanding of the culturally based differences in values among the firm's employees. In a classroom situation, this book would be appropriate for graduate students." --Reviews in Anthropology

Developing Organizational Simulations: A Guide for Practitioners and Students (Applied Psychology)

III, George C. Thornton, Rose A. Mueller-Hanson, George C. Thornton III, Rose Hanson

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This book provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations. Simulation exercises present the examinee with descriptions of complex situations that stimulate aspects of real-world settings and problems. Examinees are required to demonstrate overt behavior in handling the problems presented. The process and/or products of this behavior are observed by trained assessors who observe behavior, classify behaviors into relevant dimensions, and evaluate effectiveness. Simulations can provide assessments of abilities, skills, and competencies not readily measured by other testing techniques.

Developing Organizational Simulations provides practical guidance for defining the attributes to be assessed, constructing the stimulus material, and designing methods for administration and scoring. Several different situational exercises are presented, including business games, leaderless group discussions, in-baskets, one-on-one interaction simulations, and case studies/presentations. Steps to ensure the reliability, validity, and legal defensibility of assessments from simulations are described. In addition, the book presents the use of simulation exercises for the purposes of personnel selection, training, development, and certification. Professional standards and guidelines relevant to the construction of simulation exercises are also covered.