A Manager's Guide to Self-development

7. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97312-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book is an indispensable guide to building your management and leadership skills and abilities. It includes activities which can be undertaken alone, in a group or as part of a programme.

In its seventh edition, the book is a carefully designed self-development programme aimed at helping leaders improve their performance, advance their careers and achieve their full potential. You are invited to complete a diagnostic career and life-planning activity first, before making a self-diagnosis of learning goals and priorities. Choose from 56 self-development activities covering a range of skills and competencies, including change management, coaching, collaborative working and emotional resilience. New Activities include Environmental Scanning, Using Artificial Intelligence, Mindfulness and Working Effectively with Groups. This new, updated edition reflects key changes in management and leadership practices over the last decade and is aligned to relevant professional frameworks.

This book encourages people to believe in themselves and their abilities. It aims to empower you to reflect on your experiences of tackling challenges in the workplace and shows you how to move to the next level in your career, to become the best leader and manager that you can be.

Zielgruppe

Further/Vocational Education, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Jean-Anne

Pedler, Mike

Keevill, Joan

Burgoyne, John

Boydell, Tom

Roe, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introduction, Chapter 1 The Philosophy of This Book, Chapter 2 How This Book Works, Part 2 Planning Your Self-development, Chapter 3 Career and Life Planning, Chapter 4 The Qualities of Successful Managers and Leaders, Chapter 5 Where to Start? Choosing Your Learning Priorities, Chapter 6 How to Select and Use the Activities, Part 3 Activities for Leadership and Management Self-development, Activity 1 Know Your Facts, Activity 2 Networking, Activity 3 Managing Your Time, Activity 4 Keeping Up to Date, Activity 5 Find a Mentor, Activity 6 Communication Tools, Activity 7 Facts and Assumptions, Activity 8 Reflective Practice, Activity 9 Use Your Power, Activity 10 Action Learning, Activity 11 Political Awareness, Activity 12 Active Listening, Activity 13 Decision Making, Activity 14 Environmental Scanning, Activity 15 Role Set Analysis, Activity 16 Planning Change, Activity 17 Crisis Management, Activity 18 Critical Thinking, Activity 19 Risk Management, Activity 20 Asserting Yourself, Activity 21 Handling Conflict, Activity 22 Working Effectively with Groups, Activity 23 Exploring Your Core Values, Activity 24 Getting to Know You, Activity 25 Getting to Yes, Activity 26 Collaborative Working, Activity 27 Be a Coach!, Activity 28 Virtual Leadership, Activity 29 The Saturated Life, Activity 30 Dealing with Difficult Situations, Activity 31 Are You Stressed?, Activity 32 Managing Stress in Your Team, Activity 33 Meditation, Activity 34 Mindfulness, Activity 35 Manage Your Feelings, Activity 36 Stability Zones, Activity 37 The Virtual Revolution, Activity 38 Using Artificial Intelligence Tools, Activity 39 Who's the Boss?, Activity 40 Practising Change, Activity 41 Action Planning, Activity 42 Imaging, Activity 43 Managing Upwards, Activity 44 Beyond 'Yes… But…', Activity 45 Generating New Ideas, Activity 46 Approaches to Creativity, Activity 47 A Helicopter Mind, Activity 48 Your Multiple Intelligences, Activity 49 Coping with Complexity, Activity 50 Just a Minute, Activity 51 Where To Next?, Activity 52 Managing Your Dependency, Activity 53 Learning to Learn, Activity 54 Study Skills, Activity 55 Your Learning Cycle, Activity 56 Backwards Review, Part 4 Notes for Facilitators, Notes for Facilitators, Appendix Part 1 CMDA Standard Level 6/MGSD Mapping Matrix, Part 2 SLA Standard Level 7/MGSD Mapping Matrix

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Pedler is Emeritus Professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He is the founding editor of the Journal: Action Learning: Research and Practice and has written and co-authored many papers and books on management and leadership development and organisational learning.

Tom Boydell was Principal Lecturer for 20 years at Sheffield City Polytechnic/Hallam University, where he specialised in action learning and self-development. Since then he has run two consultancy organisations, was for some years Academic Dean at the Euro-Arab Management School, Granada and Cairo and is now a Senior Associate with the Centre for Action Learning. He has authored/co-authored some 30 books on learning and development of and within organisations.

John Burgoyne was a co-author of the original and earlier editions of A Manager's Guide to Self Development, and is now sadly deceased. He was a leading thinker and researcher in the field of management learning and Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University Management School.

Joan Keevil is Director of Designs on Learning Ltd and has previously been a Learning Consultant with BBC Education and Training. Joan has a wide experience in learning design in general and in e-learning consulting in particular. This includes developing a range of compliance eLearning for global clients including CHANEL, Air Liquide, Shell, Coca Cola, Glencore on issues such as Codes of Conduct, Anti-bribery, Competition Law, GDPR, Information Security and Fraud.

Kevin Roe is Associate Professor at the Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University. His research is focussed on understanding how successful teams coordinate their activities. He teaches, coaches and assesses senior leaders across a range of different qualifications.

Jean-Anne Stewart has over 20 years’ experience of research and teaching at Henley Business School where she is Programme Director for the innovative MA Leadership programme and previously Programme Director for corporate global MBA programmes for international clients, such as Deloitte and IBM. Since 2021, Jean-Anne has led the design and development of the SLA Leadership apprenticeship programme, as well as designing and delivering undergraduate leadership modules and international study yours for MBA and Masters students.