Book Picks
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Crucial Conversations Tools for talking when stakes are high By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler Offers good examples. Specific, practical and effective tools to managing important conversations and relationships both on and off the job. |
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Feedback That Works By Sloan R. Weitzel Centre for Creative Leadership This guidebook explains how to give effective feedback. Lots of good examples and specific tools. It shows you how to build your message, when to deliver it, and how to best communicate it. |
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Work Types By Jean M. Kummerow, Nancy J. Barger, Linda K. Kirby Based on the well-known Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™. Understand your work personality--how it helps you and holds you back, and how you can improve the way you communicate and manage conflict on the job. |
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The Introvert Advantage By Marti Laney An eye-catching title. A quick and easy read. Humourous insights and descriptions of how some Introverts experience...and can thrive...in a world full of Extroverts.
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Fierce Conversations By Susan Scott A fresh approach to improving interpersonal communication. Offers concrete advice, useful exercises and practical skills to build confidence in asserting yourself and managing conflict--at work & at home. |
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Strengths FInder 2.0 By Tom Rath Offers a strengths-based approach to improving your confidence, direction, health and relationships--both on and off the job. Practical strategies and suggestions to enhance personal and professional effectiveness. |
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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes By William Bridges Offers insight, skills and strategies for coping with the difficult, painful and confusing times in life. Explores the transitions in an individual's life--marriages and divorces, family births and deaths, relocations and career changes. Identifies and explains a three-phase process underlying transition--whatever the specific change. Practical suggestions, skills and advice for managing a lifetime of transitions. |
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Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ By Daniel Goleman Redefines what it means to be smart. Groundbreaking brain and behavioural research. Argues that factors like self-awareness, self-discipline and empathy add up to a different way of being smart. Emotional intelligence can be developed during adulthood to enhance our health, our relationships and our work. |
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Dealing with Difficult People How to deal with nasty customers, demanding bosses, and annoying co-workers. By Roberta Cava Great hands-on book. Offers specific and practical ways to deal with irate, aggressive and manipulative people at work. Helpful techniques to enhance interpersonal skills and control anger and stress at work and at home.
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The Joy of Conflict Resolution By Gary Harper No doubt this book title will make you smile. Engaging story-telling approach. Uses an interesting “drama triangle” of victims, villains and heroes to explain conflict. Lots of hints and tips on how to move beyond confrontation and resolve conflict collaboratively. |
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"I Can’t Believe She Did That!
By Nan Mooney The title says it all. Interesting conversational style. Based on real stories with real women. Though-provoking takes on the dynamics underlying often painful relationships between women, both in and out if the office. |
