Category: Networking

Leading with dignity: How to create a culture that brings out the best in people

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Hicks D. Page: 224
Publisher: Yale University Press
21/08/2018
eISBN-13: 9780300240856

This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book ‘Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict,’ Donna Hicks now contributes a specific, practical guide to achieving a culture of dignity. Most people know very little about dignity, the author has found, and when leaders fail to respect the dignity of others, conflict and distrust ensue. She highlights three components of leading with dignity: what one must know in order to honour dignity and avoid violating it; what one must do to lead with dignity; and how one can create a culture of dignity in any organization, whether corporate, religious, governmental, healthcare, or beyond.

Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Robert J. Wicks. Pages: 214 Size: 805 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 25 August, 2005
eISBN-13: 978019803845

Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today’s health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being is a concise guide for all medical professionals who face these demands. This book:

  • Provides critical information about the dangers of compassion fatigue/burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress disorder in health care settings
  • Introduces a newly-developed “Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire” that can be profitably self-administered at each phase of one’s career and reflected upon in private, with one’s mentor, or in a small group setting
  • Includes a unique section on strengthening one’s inner life through the use of three core spiritual wisdom approaches drawn from a world religion perspective
  • Provides a description of four types of “voices” one needs to have in one’s circle of friends to ensure that balance, perspective, growth, and challenge are fostered in one’s personal and professional life
  • Describes how physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals can formulate a personally-designed self-care protocol for themselves

Lastly, this book offers an extensive and up-to date bibliography of recent research, clinical papers, and books on medical-nursing practice and secondary stress. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is an indispensable resource for medical and nursing professionals, students, and the counselors and therapists who work with them.

Personal Branding For Dummies, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Susan Chritton. Pages: 364 Size: 14.74 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 25 June, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118915578

The simple guide to managing your personal brand, a vital element of success in the professional world. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition, is your guide to creating and maintaining a personal trademark by equating self-impression with other people’s perceptions. This updated edition includes new information on expanding your brand through social media, online job boards, and communities, using the tried and true methods that are the foundation of personal branding. Marketing your skills and personality, and showing the rest of the world who you are, gives you a competitive edge. Whether you’re looking for your first job, considering changing careers, or just want to be more viable and successful in your current career, this guide provides the step-by-step information you need to develop your personal brand. Distinguishing yourself from the competition is important in any facet of business, and the rise of personal branding has evolved specifically to help candidates stand out from the global talent pool. Establishing a professional presence with a clear and concise image, reputation, and status is a must, whether you’re a new grad or an accomplished executive. Personal marketing has never been more important, and your personal brand should communicate the best you have to offer. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition, leads you step by step through the self-branding process. Includes information on how to know the “real” you Explains how to develop a target market positioning statement Helps you make plans for your personal brand communications Instructs you with ways to make your mark on your brand environment The book also discusses continued brand building, demonstrating your brand, and the 10 things that can sink your brand. A personal brand is more than just a business card and a resume. It should be exquisitely crafted to capture exactly the image you wish to project. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition provides the information, tips, tricks, and techniques you need to do it right.

Creative Personal Branding: The Strategy to Answer: What’s next

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jurgen Salenbacher ; [edition: Vicky Hayward]. Pages: 195 Size: 3.01 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Bis Publishers
Published: 13 May, 2014
eISBN-13: 9789063693602

In this innovative book Jürgen Salenbacher shares his unique personal coaching method designed to develop creative thinking and innovation. The method, while it originated as a career management tool, it can be used by anyone who wishes to explore what they have to offer the world. In five succinct chapters Salenbacher reveals how to use brand positioning methodology to discover where to go next. Along the way he discusses the origins of today’s crisis, the keys to creative thinking, he examines the work of leading theorists in business culture, and sets readers 9 assignments designed to coach them towards realising their assets and skills. An invaluable professional resource, Creative Personal Branding is a fascinating and very practical tool for anyone interested in positioning themselves in the creative economy.

Benchmarking: Analyze performance and adapt your procedures

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 27 Size: 2.02 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 17 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806268419

Analyze performance and adapt your procedures. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing benchmarking, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:.

  • Understand the different types of benchmarking and choose the best one for your company.
  • Catch up with the competition by comparing their processes to your own and identifying the best practices.
  • Use your results to make concrete improvements to your processes and procedures

Make it Fly!: The step-by-step guide to make any idea, project or goal take off

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Brigitte Cobb. Pages: 209 Size: 1.49 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Business – M.U.A.
Published: 01 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780273794530

Whether it’s a project at work or a dream for life, Make it Fly! is the ultimate success plan for making things happen. Its proven, step-by-step approach will make even the biggest goal achievable, giving you that vital first push and all the know-how, inspiration and practical techniques you need to see things through. Discover how to:

  • Appraise your idea to make sure if it’s really ready to fly
  • Get the planning right so you know what’s happening now and what you’re doing next
  • Hurdle all the annoying obstacles that will try to put you off course
  • Stay motivated focused by taking every step in the right way and at the right time

Stop talking about what you’re going to do, and start doing what you’re talking about. It’s time to make it fly! ‘Wow! If you’re looking for a book to help you get a dream off the ground then this is for you.

Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein. Pages: 142 Size: 1.47 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 14 August, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781523095407

The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. As organizations face more complex interdependent tasks, leadership must become more personal in order to insure open trusting communication that will make more collaborative problem solving and innovation possible. Without open and trusting communications throughout organizations, they will continue to face the productivity and quality problems that result from reward systems that emphasize individual competition and “climbing the corporate ladder”. Authors Edgar Schein and Peter Schein recognize this reality and call for a reimagined form of leadership that coincides with emerging trends of relationship building, complex group work, diverse workforces, and cultures in which everyone feels psychologically safe. Humble Leadership calls for “here and now” humility based on a deeper understanding of the constantly evolving complexities of interpersonal, group and intergroup relationships that require shifting our focus towards the process of group dynamics and collaboration. Humble Leadership at all levels and in all working groups will be the key to achieving the creativity, adaptiveness, and agility that organizations will need to survive and grow.

Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Glenn Elliott, Debra Corey. Pages: 272 Size: 3.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 29 January, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781119390084

The old way of treating people at work has failed. Only 30% of employees are engaged in their jobs, and in this fast-paced world that’s just not enough. The world’s best companies understand this, and have been quietly treating people differently for nearly two decades.

Now you can learn their secrets and discover The Engagement Bridge™ model, proven to build bottom line value for companies through sustainable employee engagement.

Companies with the best cultures generate stock market returns of twice the general market and enjoy half the employee turnover of their peers. Their staff innovate more, deliver better customer service and, hands-down, beat the competition. These companies outperform and disrupt their markets. They break the rules of traditional HR, they rebel against the status quo.

Build it has found these rebels and the rulebreakers. From small startups to global powerhouses, this book shows that courage, commitment and a people-centric mindset, rather than money and resources, are what you need to turn an average business into a category leader.

The book follows the clear and proven Engagement Bridge™ model, developed from working with thousands of leading companies worldwide on their own employee engagement journeys. The practical model highlights the areas that leaders need to examine in order to build a highly engaged company culture and provides a framework for success.

Build it is packed with exclusive tips, tools brand case studies from HR rebels including Brewdog, Virgin, LinkedIn, Atlassian, Zappos, Buffer, American Express, VayerMedia and many more. Readers will learn:

  • How employee engagement helps companies perform.
  • The key factors that drive engagement, and how they work together.
  • What the world’s most rebellious companies have done to break the rules of traditional HR and improve engagement.
  • How to implement The Engagement BridgeTM model to boost productivity, innovation and better decision making.

Unique in this category, Build it is written from two sharply different perspectives.

Glenn Elliott is a multi-award winning Entrepreneur of the Year, CEO and growth investor. He talks candidly about the mistakes and missteps he has made whilst building Reward Gateway into a $500m category leader in employee engagement technology.

Debra Corey brings 30 years experience in senior level HR roles at global companies such as Gap, Quintiles, Honeywell and Merlin Entertainments. She shares the practical tools and case studies that can kickstart your employee engagement plan, bringing her own pragmatic and engaging style to each situation.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Vidette Todaro-Franceschi. Pages: 255 Size: 1.83 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 20 September, 2012
eISBN-13: 9780826109781

Compassion fatigue afflicts nurses working in all caring environments and has become a serious issue in health care institutions nationwide. This is the only book to specifically address this challenge and the related syndrome of burnout in nursing. It presents a unique healing model designed to identify, treat and, where possible, avert compassion fatigue with holistic strategies and action plans that help cultivate a healthier, more satisfying work environment.

The volume addresses risk factors for and manifestations of compassion fatigue, burnout, and other related experiences such as PTS, death overload, collective trauma, and moral distress, and presents strategies to mediate and resolve these issues. The author emphasizes ways in which dissatisfaction influences the quality of patient care and calls for nurses to reinvent their work environments to favor compassion contentment. Case vignettes and exercises will help readers identify and alter patterns of negativity to reaffirm purpose in their professional lives.

Key Features:

  • Describes the positive and negative contributors to professional quality of life
  • Explores the multifaceted nature of compassion fatigue and burnout, in nursing
  • Addresses the unique risk factors for nurses who work in critical care/ER, oncology, medical/surgical, and palliative care areas
  • Offers holistic self and group strategies and action plans to help leadership and staff nurses overcome compassion fatigue and promote work satisfaction
  • Addresses gaps in education which contribute to the development of compassion fatigue and burnout
  • Designed for nurses in stressful health care environments, and nurse educators and students

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Nancy Duarte. Pages: 276 Size: 46.31 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 27 September, 2010
eISBN-13: 978111801487

Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they`ve wasted their time? All too often, presentations don`t resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author`s first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author`s approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you`ll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore`s Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don`t have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate .

Business Storytelling For Dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Karen Dietz, Phd And Lori L. Silverman. Pages: 387 Size: 12.24 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 12 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 978111873028

Use storytelling to influence people and move them to action Need to get your point across? Get staff on board with change? Foster collaboration? Increase sales? Strengthen employee engagement? Build customer loyalty? Drive innovation and creativity? Capture best practices? Align people around a goal? Grow your business? Business Storytelling For Dummies can help you do this and more.

  • Expert advice with real-world examples
  • Proven case studies, tips, and templates
  • How to get results by capturing, crafting, telling stories, and more

The Idea-Driven Organization

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder. Pages: 138 Size: 2.46 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 31 March, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781626561250

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option – it’s the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea-driven company capable of implementing 50 to 100 or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies world-wide, they show what’s needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage – and those that discourage – employee ideas. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization – including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.

Summary The Idea-Driven Organization – Review and Analysis of Robinson and Schroeder’s Book

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Businessnews Publishing Pages: 25 Size: 1.35 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Must Read Summaries
Published: 01 July, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782511036068

The must-read summary of Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder`s book: “”The Idea-Driven Organization””.This complete summary of the ideas from Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder`s book “”The Idea-Driven Organization”” details how the best ideas to improve a business often come from the front-line. According to Robinson and Schroeder, you should listen to these ideas and apply them. This is exactly what an idea-driven organisation does. For this concept to work, organisations must have systems in place to push and pull these ideas.There are five steps to building an idea-driven organisation:1. Understand the power of front-line ideas2. Realise this needs different leadership3. Align your strategy and management4. Implement your front-line idea system5. Use these ideas to innovateAdded-value of this summary:

  • Save time
  • Understand the power of front-line ideas
  • Build an idea-driven organisation and benefit from innovative ideas

To learn more, read ”The Idea-Driven Organization’ and start listening to those that know your business the best!

The outstanding middle manager: how to be a healthy, happy, high-performing mid-level manager

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gordon Tinline And Cary Cooper. Pages: 208 Size: 1.25 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
Published: 03 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780749474676

Recent research shows that the number of people in senior specialist and middle management positions is growing. As organizations continue to flatten, the middle becomes the place where many will spend the majority of their careers. The Outstanding Middle Manager is the new guide to dealing with those pressures specific to the role and maximizing the opportunities to forge a fulfilling and balanced career in the middle. Drawing on the latest research into workplace trends, strategic management and work-life balance, Tinline and Cooper focus on middle management as an opportunity level. Readers can discover: strategies for managing upwards as well as downwards, how to deal effectively with generational differences and an evolving workplace, influencing, empowerment and team-building skills, and stress- and life-management strategies that bring clarity and purpose. With a focus on lateral development and progression as a career choice, The Outstanding Middle Manager empowers readers to take control of their mid-level career to become more fulfilled, more resilient and more satisfied.

Management and Organisational Behaviour

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Laurie J. Mullins With Gill Christy. Pages: 851 Size: 16.76 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 08 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780273792734

The essential introduction to management and organisational behaviour – over half a million students worldwide have used Management and Organisational Behaviour to help them learn. Written in an engaging style and packed with contemporary references to management research and practice, this book continues to be the Organisational Behaviour text of choice for today`s students. A range of real life examples and case studies illustrate the theories of human behaviour at work, and the influence of individuals, leaders and groups on organisational performance. Using frequent questions and exercises, a clear layout, and additional online resources, this book will enable students to

  • think critically about topical issues and debates.
  • develop personal and professional skills for work and study.
  • reinforce and assess knowledge and understanding.
  • navigate through the text efficiently and effectively.
  • succeed in project work, research and exams.

Understanding and Managing Change in Healthcare

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor. Pages: 259 Size: 1.06 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Palgrave Higher Ed M.U.A.
Published: 30 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781137022776

Healthcare practice is always changing. Whether it is because of new evidence, new structures, or new policy, it is essential that professionals understand, evaluate and adapt to change effectively. This book offers a unique exploration of change specifically in healthcare, under the microscope of day-to-day practice. Illustrated with scenarios, case studies, and work examples, you`ll find it to be an exemplary guide to:

  • understanding reasons for change
  • adapting to change
  • planning, managing, and implementing change
  • exploring readiness, resistance, and barriers to change
  • dealing with setbacks or alterations
  • maintaining new ways of working
  • the multidisciplinary aspects of change
  • evaluating change
  • learning from change
  • disseminating new evidence derived from changed practice.

Whether you are a newly qualified practitioner, experienced professional, long-term manager, or policy-maker, this book has something for you.

Healthcare Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Kieran Walshe And Judith Smith.
Pages: 619 Size: 9.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 September, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780335243822

This popular book is amongst the most comprehensive textbooks on healthcare management available. Written with healthcare managers, professionals and students in mind, it provides an accessible guide to healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. Key areas include: Allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities; health technologies, research and innovation; and, internationalisation of health systems and policies; Healthcare services: structure and delivery; and, chronic disease and integrated care; Healthcare leadership and networks: incentives, governance and performance. The new edition features an updated structure to support teaching and learning and thirteen new chapters which draw upon a wealth of experience from leading international experts in the field. This includes references to practical policy and case study materials, chapter summaries focusing on key points, self-assessment learning exercises, further reading and links to useful web-based resources. “Healthcare Management” is valuable reading for students and healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making. The links between the theory and practice of healthcare management are skilfully explored and the authors show how best practice within healthcare systems can be maintained.