Synopses & Reviews
Summary: This book offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organisations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences. It shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues.Key Features: 1.Written by an experienced management development professional in clear and easily understood language2.Aimed at busy line managers who want to take seriously their role in developing people3.Chapters can be read as stand alone guides to topics such as coaching, feedback and talent management4.Addresses both how to support the development of individuals and how to build effective teams and organisations5.Contains practical exercises for self development and building teamsThe Author: Bob Thomson is the Management Development Adviser at the University of Warwick. He is responsible for developing the leadership capability of academic and administrative staff, coaching individuals and teams, and helping departments to improve their effectiveness as an organisation. He was previously Leadership Development Manager for a major UK company where he was responsible for building leadership capability at all levels and shifting the culture to a more open, informal and coaching style of leadership. Bob has qualifications in management learning, coaching and counselling. Readership: The book is aimed at managers at all levels, team leaders, supervisors, human resource professionals, and management development consultants.Contents: Learning from experience - deep and sustained learning comes through experience, which is reflected upon and made sense ofThe manager as coach - how busy line managers can adopt a coaching approach to managing and developing peopleFeedback - giving, generating and gathering feedback, including 360-degree feedbackMentoring - guidelines on using experienced managers to mentor younger employeesBuilding teams and organisations - using learning from experience to develop teams and to create a learning organisationCreating relationships - using emotional intelligence to create healthy relationships and achieve high performanceConversations that make a difference - how to discuss the real issues and address underlying concerns Talent management - identifying talented people and offering them challenging experiences is the key to succession management
Review
"Regardless of whether you are the manager or the managed, new to mentoring and staff development, or already reading it, Bob Thompson offers a thought provoking book."
-Scottish Health Information Network
Synopsis
Growing People offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. The book explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organizations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences and shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues.Published in association with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
About the Author
Bob Thomson is the Management Development Adviser at the University of Warwick, UK. He is responsible for developing the leadership capability of academic and administrative staff, coaching individuals and teams and helping departments to improve their effectiveness as an organization.
Table of Contents
Learning from experience A coaching approach Giving, generating and gathering feedback Mentoring Developing teams and organisations Creating relationships Conversations that make a difference Talent management