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In The Collaborative Leader, L. Michael Hall and Ian McDermott answer key questions about leadership. What is collaboration? How does it relate to leadership? How do you do it effectively? How do you pull people together, inspire them with a meaningful vision, and organise them so that a team spirit emerges and peak performance is achieved? The Collaborative Leader is a practical guide to collaborating with others and leading collaboratively. That means learning how to win the hearts and minds of those who we lead. Packed with practical and immediate action points, the book will show you how to turn around a non-collaborative group or environment immediately. You will find assessment questions throughout, step-by-step processes on collaboration, and an invitation to action at the end of each chapter: a personal challenge to step up to the collaborative level of leadership. Learn the core competencies that facilitate a healthy, joyful, and productive collaboration. The foundation of collaborative leadership is self-collaboration. The leader who cannot effectively collaborate cannot effectively lead. If you are to walk your talk, you need to demonstrate collaborative skills yourself, and this book will show you the how to s for developing the critical success elements of leadership. The best collaborators are those who have lots of fun collaborating. The goal can be serious. The collaboration can be fun. Learn how it s possible by understanding the structure and processes of collaboration. Whether you re responsible for team or organisational development, you ll find plenty here to inspire you to transform your leadership into collaborative leadership.
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Learn to achieve excellence in all you do! Some people appear more gifted than others. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), one of the fastest growing developments in popular psychology, describes in simple terms what these people do differently and how you can learn from them. On this CD, leading NLP trainers Joseph O'Connor and Ian McDermott reveal the practical Skills That you too can use for effective Communication, Success at work and the excellent results you want. An Introduction to NLP includes:
- How to create rapport with others
- Influencing skills
- Understanding and using body language
- The art of asking key questions
- Effective meetings, negotiations and selling
- Accelerated learning strategies
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The NLP Coach explains how NLP's revolutionary techniques, along with the skills of coaching, can come together to help you achieve success at work and at home. From discovering how to boost self-esteem and create good relationships to having a successful career and enjoying better physical and emotional health, this clear and systematic guide shows you how to apply NLP principles to any situation.
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NLP Coaching is not just about working with other people - you can also use these same NLP Coaching skills to successfully Coach yourself. Whether you want to plan your career more effectively, have more control over your thoughts and feelings, improve relationships or tackle issues from the past, this CD is designed to give you what you need to be your own best Coach.
- Learn how the skills of NLP Coaching can be used by all of us, regardless of our professions, to Coach ourselves more effectively
- Master some of the powerful NLP Coaching tools for creating rapid change and lasting results
- Discover how NLP adds a vital new dimension to traditional Coaching skills
- Learn how to develop your most important relationship of all your relationship with yourself
- Introduction to Coaching and NLP (23.36)
- The Coach from Hell! (2.22)
- Your Ideal Coach (5.48)
- Incremental Change (5.50)
- Contrastive Analysis (12.58)
- Designing the Alliance (16.36)
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What is systems thinking? Systems thinking goes beyond logic, because people are not always logical. Systems thinking sees beyond isolated events to the deeper patterns and connections. Why is it so important? Because we live in a world of systems. Your body is a system, so id your family. The natural environment is a system, as is your business. Understanding how these systems work will dramatically increase your effectiveness, save you time and help you achieve your goals. Systems thinking is practical and immensely useful. It is not an academic discipline requiring mathematics or engineering to understand it. This book explains the principles of systems thinking in a straightforward way with practical applications, exercises and examples that will help you become more influential and successful in managing your health, work, finances and relationships. This book will show you how:
- you can get a huge result for a small effort
- obvious solutions can often do more harm than good
- to avoid recurrent misfortunes that seem to happen automatically
- to know the best time to change strategy
- your attempted solution can cause the problem you are trying to solve
- you can never do just one thing because there are always side effects
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The Inner Coach is a practical and inspiring new book from the authors of The NLP Coach. NLP master practitioner and executive coach Ian McDermott and NLP practitioner and psychotherapist Wendy Jago combine their expertise to provide a step-by step self-coaching guide. They show you how you can make the most of all of yourself once you learn how to access and harness the hidden power of your unconscious mind. Discover how to: Access your inner wisdom; Make the most of your gut feelings, dreams and intuitions; Use simple NLP techniques to access your subconscious mind; Find your purpose and identify your goals; Harness your inner wisdom to deliver insights, resolve problems, enhance creativity, improve decision making, increase confidence and communication skills; Use the right questions to achieve the right answers; Become your own inner coach
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This is volume three of a step-by-step programme. These user-friendly guides to self-coaching using the powerful techniques of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) will enable to you take control of your life. All the essential NLP coaching tools are clearly explained at the beginning, with examples and case histories. The audiobook then explains how to apply these techniques to coach yourself to success in six key aspects of your life:
- Enhance your self-esteem
- Build good relationships and improve your communication skills
- Maximise your brain power
- Accelerate your learning and improve your memory
- Generate health, wealth, and happiness
- Manage yourself and others better and make your work more rewarding
- Become more spiritually alive
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This is volume two of a step-by-step programme to help you manage success and failure at work and at home. This user-friendly guide begins by clearly explaining the basic self-coaching techniques of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) before showing you how to apply these techniques to help you achieve success.
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This is volume one of a step-by-step programme to help you achieve success at work and at home. This user-friendly introductory guide to self-coaching will show you how to use the powerful techniques of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). All the essential NLP coaching tools are clearly explained, and will provide you with the basic tools to change your life.