Library
Nine Paths to Wisdom – Synopsis
(Print-HC/SC; E-book; Audio)
A supportive and balanced guidebook to finding purpose and fulfilment in life. It’s centered on a professional coach’s personal experiences in applying wisdom-based approaches. Concepts, perspectives, analogies, models, self-inventories, illustrative anecdotes, and detailed examples provide foundational, practical strategies which facilitate individual growth and development.
The style is narrative, and it’s structured to encourage personal reflection and progressive individual / collective applications within a cohesive philosophy. It can serve as a dedicated self-improvement guide or, alternatively as a source of practical ideas for leaders and teachers who are entrusted with the development of other people.
The book comprises an introduction to the Opportunities offered by a wisdom-based approach, support with the development of a personal Action Plan, and a Resource Bank of detailed, practical assists.
Prefaced by exposure to three popular yet disabling ‘myths’, three elegant pathways are identified to assist with the gathering of wisdom; three further pathways assist in the processing and assimilation of valuable themes for the individual and, finally, there are three pathways to provoke and encourage deeper, internal value creation, integration and resiliency.
It is a thought-provoking, stimulating and enriching experience that can be readily assimilated.
Wisdom Leadership – Synopsis
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The purpose of leadership is to stimulate, accommodate, focus and guide change. It is an inherent capability and quality in all human beings, reconciling individual and collective perspectives and behaviors with natural evolution and mutual benefit.
Twelve coherent steps of leadership development, in the form of concepts, strategies and techniques, are explored within a wisdom-based framework. The process is designed to encourage Insights, Inspiration and Integration of practical approaches in real time. Ideas are explored, applications are designed and pursued to create continuing, substantial outcomes and measurable progress.
Initially, four steps investigate and refine related individual perspectives, with a further four applied to developing effective relationships, and finally, four steps encourage the emergence of specific strategies which will facilitate desired results.
The structure is designed for deliberate emergence over an extended period (e.g., 12 months), facilitated by dialogue and consensual, collaborative applications within a selected group. Presented in two separate Parts, the content allows for individual interpretation within a collective and practical system of applications tuned to the precise needs of the organization from the outset.
Wisdom Leadership assists in creating personal competence and confidence within a team setting.
The Elegant Strategist (TES)
(E-book only)
An essential skill in business is the ability to use strategy, deliberately, elegantly and effectively, to make things happen. The challenge arises, for most of us, in failing to appreciate that what we’ve acquired intuitively, and learned without benefit of proper structure throughout our business experience, is likely incomplete and perhaps even flawed. Our accumulated education and experience have not prepared us well for the rapidly escalating demands of the dynamic business context in which we find ourselves.
This book has been written for the aspiring leader / manager who is striving for enhanced performance and increased contribution. It is part of a trilogy that covers the basic knowledge and skills that every competent executive-to-be should profess. It is also a work-in-progress and hopefully will remain so.
It is a primer on business strategy designed for those who cannot turn back the clock, and who may wish to retrofit related competencies while still moving forward. It will build onto existing bodies of knowledge by analyzing and promoting specific structures and processes that are central to effective business strategy. In short, it should help to make sense of diverse experiences.
Using stories, models and discussion, together with self-evaluation devices, it seeks to introduce and demonstrate the essential principles and methods of applied strategy in business organizations. Further, it will invite participation in constructive self-examination, offering many practical suggestions through which personal competencies and confidence levels might improve.
It also attempts to be entertaining, for learning should be fun. This won’t make the process any less profound, but it will make it easier and perhaps more pleasant. Enjoy and profit from the experience.
(263 pp – available in e-format only)
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Communicating with Intent (CwI)
(E-book only)
An essential skill in business is the ability to use strategy, deliberately, elegantly and effectively, to make things happen. The challenge arises, for most of us, in failing to appreciate that what we’ve acquired intuitively, and learned without benefit of proper structure throughout our business experience, is likely incomplete and perhaps even flawed. Our accumulated education and experience have not prepared us well for the rapidly escalating demands of the dynamic business context in which we find ourselves.
This book has been written for the aspiring leader / manager who is striving for enhanced performance and increased contribution. It is part of a trilogy that covers the basic knowledge and skills that every competent executive-to-be should profess. It is also a work-in-progress and hopefully will remain so.
It is a primer on business strategy designed for those who cannot turn back the clock, and who may wish to retrofit related competencies while still moving forward. It will build onto existing bodies of knowledge by analyzing and promoting specific structures and processes that are central to effective business strategy. In short, it should help to make sense of diverse experiences.
Using stories, models and discussion, together with self-evaluation devices, it seeks to introduce and demonstrate the essential principles and methods of applied strategy in business organizations. Further, it will invite participation in constructive self-examination, offering many practical suggestions through which personal competencies and confidence levels might improve.
It also attempts to be entertaining, for learning should be fun. This won’t make the process any less profound, but it will make it easier and perhaps more pleasant. Enjoy and profit from the experience.
(263 pp – available in e-format only)
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Way to Coach (WtC)
(E-book only)
This is a resource book designed for the practicing leader / manager who seeks to secure needed results through the willing cooperation of others. Beginning with a clear explanation of the context for mentoring and coaching within any group, the book’s structure examines the pivotal applications for coaching, and its related practices of mentoring and counselling, for Issues Resolution, Growth and Development, and for Context Adaptation challenges.
Using an intriguing analogy, and segregated into easy-access modules, remedial and developmental processes are revealed in practical, sequential steps, creating an effective roadmap to guide and support. Tools and techniques are offered for consideration in each application, together with associated checklists and resources.
(280 pp – in e-book format only)
Also available – WtC Mentoring version – 26 pp – e-book
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Selecting the Best (StB)
(E-book only)
A highly effective resource manual, based on Behavioral Interviewing strategies and techniques, for every business leader and manager. In five freestanding modules, the book embraces the introductory Concept, the practical use of behavioral Dimensions for assessment, preparatory techniques including interview Question selection, as well as the structure and management of the Interview process itself. Recording practices and assists and the critical Follow-through procedures are also covered with explicit examples.
Samples and checklists abound to assist quality outcomes in this essential skillset. Presented as a primer, the entire selection process is offered in easy-to-understand, adapt and apply formats. It serves too, as an excellent developmental and coaching agenda.
(Five free-standing Modules plus a generic Hiring Manual – e-book only)
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RESOURCES
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Self-Evaluations:
- My Drivers
- Shadows Inventory
- Openness Inventory
- Empathy Inventory
- Spiritual Inventory
Models:
- Purpose Development
- Life Track
- Wisdom
- Quadrants
- Mind Model 1 – 4
- Light – Life – Love
- Nine Paths
- Sphere of Influence
- Strategy Principles
- Motivation
Templates:
- Zimbardo Time Template
- Communications Covenant
- Self-Development Covenant
- Journaling Formats
- Centering Prayer
Tables:
- Stages
- Memes
- Affective States
- Change response