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Seniors of Organizational Development
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download. This collection offers brief articles by (and
in one case, about) senior consultants who have been
gurus for consultants in the field of OD. Billie Alban,
Dick and Emily Axelrod, Geoff Bellman, Peter Block,
Barbara Bunker, Kathie Dannemille, and Bob Tannenbaum
all discuss issues important to their consulting.
Facilitation
Fresh Approaches to Facilitation
In this issue, you’ll find a refreshing new way of looking at your role from Marv Weisbord, hints for managing multi-cultural meetings from Glenn Parker, some ideas that meeting participants will love from Steve Davis, from Jay Vogt - the first half-day vision process we’ve seen, fun facilitation fairy tale from Robert Moir and Janet Danforth, great body language advice for facilitators from Carol Goman, and from Paula Griffin, a long list of ways to get people involved. More detail / order...
Frontiers in Facilitation
In this issue, we explore some of the innovations in facilitation. You’ll see how the folks at AmericaSpeaks are facilitating groups of 4,000 and more, an explanation of transdisciplinary facilitation from Maggie Buxton, some creative ideas from Julie Ann Gircys on using art to help change a culture, concepts from Terrie Temkin to challenge nonprofit boards, a process from Perry Walker for getting information to large groups, Dick Axelrod’s current musings, and some tips from Paula Griffin for working with public meetings. More detail / order...
Coaching
Tools
The Foundations of Coaching
The coaching profession has its foundations in sports
coaching, counseling, behavioral sciences, consulting,
and more. These five authors explore the beginnings
and rise of this discipline. Anyone who coaches should
read these articles, and may want to share some of them
with clients as well.
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Coaching Tools
In this issue, you’ll find six articles that
provide a wealth of tools you will use again and again
in your coaching. The authors are seasoned and successful
coaches who share the learnings of years of experience.
What gets in the way of developing new habits? What
are some specific skills the best coaches use well?
What are the steps in coaching emotional intelligence?
They’re all here. More
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Leadership
Developing
Leaders in a New Century
In this collection, we open with an article describing
a complete program that combines a number of new and
classic methods, followed by articles that highlight
some of the methods and leadership characteristics that
are being emphasized today: inclusion, appreciative
inquiry, sustainability. And we close with an overview
of the state of the art in leadership development methods. More
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Leading
Organizational Change
In this collection, six authors provide important strategies
for leading change in any organization. Share these
four articles with partners in change management to
help develop a consistent philosophy and style. Share
them with clients to help clients understand their part
in the change process.
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Managing
in a New World
In this collection, six authors offer perspectives
on management issues in an information economy populated
by a new breed of worker. Share these insights with
any leader who is working to improve the way they, and
their organization, manage the people of the new millennium.
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New Leaders — The First 100 Days
This issue offers five important articles for the new
leader, focusing on the priorities and skills needed
in the first few months of tenure in a new position.
Share it with leaders at all levels as they begin a
new challenge.
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Non-Profit Consulting
Consulting With Non-profits
If you are consulting for non-profits, or considering
it, this issue has important lessons from people whove
been doing it for years. There’s information on
how non-profits operate, their values, processes and
priorities, what clients want, and how some non-profits
deal with problems. There’s also guidance on how
and why to use an interim executive director, and some
advice for new and potential board members. More
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Strategic Consulting With Non-profits
This issue provides a variety of perspectives on doing
strategic work with nonprofit organizations. There’s
an article on how to run a strategic planning retreat.
Or as an alternative to developing ‘the plan,’
we offer an article on how to teach the board to think
strategically. There’s an article on what non-profit
clients look for in a consultant, and one on how to
address that gap between board ideas and staff action.
Plus ideas from an international panel of consultants
on working with non-profits using Future Search. More
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Project Management
Project
Management
This issue focuses on resources for project managers
— helping them plan for success in all their projects.
Two of the articles focus on planning skills for managers
of technical projects. The other three are applicable
to all kinds of projects, including organizational change
efforts. You’ll find these compact two-page articles
will be powerful aids in training as well. More
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Consulting Tools
Adapting Appreciative Inquiry
This issue focuses on Appreciative Inquiry, a popular
design for group work that while not ignoring problems,
uses the positive as a focus for action. The methods
(or for some, more a tao, a way of working) are based
on work done by David Cooperrider and others at Case
Western Reserve University in the 1980s. AI is being
adapted for many uses; authors outline a spectrum of
the adaptations here. More detail / order...
Marketing
Strategic Marketing For Professionals
Here are five articles that overview marketing for
professionals who provides intangible services. These
articles offer ideas that help you design the strategy
for your business. Use them to lay a foundation for
your marketing effort, to provide an infusion of ideas
and energy, or to get a few new hints that will provide
a big payoff. More
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Marketing on a Budget
This issue offers ideas and tools for effective marketing
that won’t drain the budget. The authors offer
clever and creative twists on traditional strategies
like networking, press releases, and mailing. And you’ll
find a packet of great new ideas as well. These are
ideas you can use at any stage in building your business,
and energy generators for your marketing anytime.
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Whole System Change
Principles of Whole-System Change
Whole-system change involves getting the entire system
— a 20 person department, a 2500-person division,
or representatives of an entire community — into
one room for long enough to have a shared understanding
of history, priorities and actions needed. It is changing
the way organizational change is done. These articles
explain the underlying principles of these methods. More
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Organizational Change
Tools for Organization Change
This collection offers seven articles providing a variety
of tools used by consultants involved in organizational
change. These tools include models like Weisbord’s
Six Boxes and Bridges Transition Model, a process-change
model, a communication plan for change projects, and
some ideas for ways to mark important transitions. More
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Teams
Working With Teams
In this issue we bring you six articles on all aspects
of teams, from the processes teams use to solve problems,
to ground rules for task teams, to the critical success
factors for virtual teams.
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