May 13, 2009 by Bill Bradley
“Being politically savvy is a good hedge against unemployment.â€Â B. Bradley HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success Competencies: building strategic relationships, interpersonal effectiveness, political skills, influence skills Who benefits: people who struggle with “office politics†or need to develop political skills at work […]
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May 6, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Edgar Schein Competencies: leadership skills, team building, talent management, organizational consulting skills, career-consulting skills, process consulting skills, group facilitation skills Who benefits: leaders, team leaders, organizational consultants, career development consultants/counselors, mentors, executive coaches, group process consultants Consultant Usage: any professional consultant working on people, culture, career, team issues should […]
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April 29, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: The Back Of The Napkin Competencies: strategic problem analysis, driving change, vision/goal setting, oral presentation Who benefits: entrepreneurs, planners, sales and marketing professionals at any level, internal and external organizational consultants, those who make oral presentations Consultant Usage: highly recommended for organizational consultants, important skill for trainers at all […]
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April 22, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average Competencies: self-development (primary); decision making and judgment (secondary) Who benefits: anyone who finds the topic of interest Consultant Usage: good background material for coaches; could be […]
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April 15, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: more decision making books and articles Competencies:decision making, judgment, self-development Who benefits: anyone seeking to improve their judgments and/or decision making abilities Consultant Usage: significant listings of current reference material on the comptencies of decision making and judgment What’s it about? I want to thank Time Magazine for doing most […]
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April 8, 2009 by Bill Bradley
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: decisions, decisions, decisions Competency: decision-making Who benefits: those interested in how each of us makes a decision Consultant Usage: background material for coaching the decision-making competency What’s it about: I love the numbers game “Sudokuâ€. I play […]
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April 1, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: book titles from Hell Competency: sense of humor Who benefits: those who need a laugh Consultant Usage: entertain your friends What’s it about? Being as this is the time honored day of acknowledging Fools, I thought a day of wacky book titles might be in order! Writing for this […]
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March 25, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: public speaking Competency: oral presentations Who benefits: those who make oral presentation or public presentations Consultant Usage: self-development or coaching tool What’s it about? One of my all time favorite opinion polls was conducted many years ago by a major newspaper in London. Can’t remember which one, but never could […]
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March 18, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: A Primer in Positive Psychology Competency: self-development Who benefits: any individual Consultant Usage: important background material for all HRD consultants What’s it about? I woke up grumpy this morning. Didn’t sleep well. Blah, blah, blah. So am I going be Captain Grumps for 16 hours and take it out […]
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March 11, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Competencies: self-development, coaching talent, mentoring, empowering others, performance management, creativity, innovation Who benefits: individuals, supervisors and managers, coaches Consultant Usage: highly recommended for executive coaches What’s it about? Today, dear reader, you shall be treated to an extremely short posting reviewing […]
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