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Team building must be done not only with relationships in mind but also with the real drivers of the business in sharp focus.
Henry Cloud • Boundaries for Leaders (Enhanced Edition): Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously In Charge
The need to understand where the sources of power are in an organization and how to use this power in pursuit of a meaningful outcome is essential.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
What we teach professional coaches is being adapted for conversations initiated by teachers, healthcare workers, and parents; more than anywhere else, what we teach is becoming an essential leadership competency for executives, managers, and supervisors.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
To manage people well, you must develop trusting relationships with them, understand their strengths and weaknesses (as well as your own), make good decisions about who should do what (including hiring and firing when necessary), and coach individuals to do their best.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
You’re aiming for this delicate balance of relaxed and confident expertise with a kind willingness to help as long as they
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Help people see a better future.
Help people see how they might get to that future.
Show people how much they matter.
Help people see how much their work matters.
Help people see how small steps are the keys to success.
Show people how they fit into a larger whole.
Likewise, Jeremy, the new head of HR for one of the American sports leagues, needed help being effective in his new job. He had a lot to do, including creating the culture of the league. So, we recruited heads of HR from the NBA, Amazon, and Comcast. The conversation was very helpful.
Phyl Terry • Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker’s Playbook
Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business.