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RESOURCES FROM OUR MEMBERS:

o Becoming Your Own Business Coach by George Watts, Ph.D. Published by Praeger Publishing, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Co. Available through bookstores, Amazon. In Becoming Your Own Business Coach, George Watts helps reader become their own “change agents”. The book offers clear, practical ways executives can grow through introspection, self-knowledge, and self-awareness. The book has short personality tests, open ended questions to stimulate personal journaling. George’s five core principles are: 1. The more deeply you understand yourself, the more successful you can become. 2. The quickest way to optimize for success is to understand and leverage your core strengths. 3. As you build your ability to hold deep conversations within yourself, you are able to hold powerful and deep conversations with others—and truly reach them. 4. Taking full and complete responsibility for your career and life is the most empowering and worthwhile goal you can pursue. 5. When you rise above your ego, you become an emotionally intelligent leader. The book would be useful to SPIM members to provide to clients for executive coaching assignments or in leadership development training programs.

o Beyond Luck: Practical steps to navigate the path from manager to Leader by John E. Langhorne. Ph.D. Corridor Media Group, 2010. To preview or purchase visit www.beyondluck.net.net. What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an "un-book," one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in short, easily managed articles. John has worked mostly with small and mid-sized businesses (those with fewer than 5,000 employees) in his 25-year career, making Beyond Luck particularly well-suited for managers and leaders in such organizations. This un-book contains 75 short (about 800 words), practical articles, each of which is interlinked to three other supporting or complementing pieces. Thus, rather than read this front to back like a traditional book, you can enter this un-book anywhere and follow your interests. Included are single articles that offer tools to solve practical problems and series that allow time for study and reflection. These range from the tactical to the strategic and assume that competently leading and managing is a learned art focused on people. While the content is the draw, the organizing structure makes accessing the right article at the right moment a quick, easy task. The articles are grouped in five major areas: management practices; management principles; leadership and executive behavior; motivation and morale, jobs and job loss and personal development. Three indices breaking the content down by topics, problems solved and personal development further assist navigating your own path to leadership success.

o Business Success through Self-Knowledge (2013) by William D. Anton, Ph.D., Founder of http://ceoeffectiveness.com/ and creator of Face Book page CEO Effectiveness. It was published by HD Interactive, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other distribution outlets and bookstores. This book is intended for business leaders, coaches and consultants and takes you on a short journey that explains why many of us have a sense of unrealized potential that eludes us. It offers examples and illustrations of how we create tacit but enduring mental models early in life that limit our view of ourselves and our power to influence others. Clear and practical steps are included on how to transform ourselves, our organizations, and those we seek to influence. Written for business leaders, business consultants, and coaches, Business Success Through Self-Knowledge espouses principles that, when applied correctly, can benefit everyone. While other business books show leaders what to focus on for greater effectiveness, Business Success Through Self-Knowledge tells you how best to accomplish it. This book sheds light on the real foundation of personal mastery, addressing the most critical of questions: What do I need to know about myself to actually put my greater potential to use? And how do I get there? They may just be the most important questions you will ever consider.

o Chapters by Arther M. Freedman (“Swimming upstream: The challenge of managerial promotions”) and H. Skipton (Skip) Leonard (“When leadership development fails managers: Addressing the right gaps when developing leadership”) in Robert B. Kaiser (ed.). (2006) Filling the Leadership Pipeline. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

o Executive Wisdom: Coaching and the Emergence of Virtuous Leaders by Dick Kilburg, available through APA and Amazon. Description: It attempts to integrate classic views of wisdom with the best of contemporary psychological research while simultaneously providing case examples, exercises and methods that are hopefully useful to leaders and coaches alike in helping them to both think about and become more virtuous in their practices.

o Peer Power Books by Judy Tindall, Ph.D. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. All books are available from Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (1-800- 634-7064) The Peer Power books are available for consultants in the field that are trying to develop peer programs for organizations and schools as well as utilizing human relationship training for groups. The books have been utilized with the United Nations as “Staff Outreach Provider” program for staff helping staff and used widely in schools (high school and higher education) for peer programs, human relationship training and topical programs. The Peer Programs: In-Depth Look at Peer Programs book according to a reviewer indicated the following: “This is a book that is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Readers will be left wondering how the authors fit so much into such a small package! This 332-page book is a powerhouse of information and useful tools, and is part of the Peer Power series. The book consists of 12 well-organized chapters, two appendices, and both a subject and author index. And, there’s even a practical CD on the back flap that has just over 45 (12 Word and 30+ PDF) tools you can use with your laptop, LCD projector or your printer. The authors provide a logical progression for all phases of planning, implementing and administering peer programs. They also share great illustrations and sample tools”. In Peer Power , Book One Workbook: Becoming an Effective Peer helper and Conflict Mediator, Fourth Edition the eight core skills that peer mentors will use are explained: Attending, Empathizing, Summarizing, Questioning, Genuineness, Assertiveness, Confrontation, Problem Solving. The purpose of Peer Power Book Two Workbook is to assist peer helpers to grow interpersonally, gain new skills, and have the tools to work with others. This would be most useful for readers who have a basic understanding of the information presented in Peer Power Book One. While any number of topics are included the author clearly states that the peer helpers need an opportunity to actually use their skills and work with others. Not only are they delivering the program there is ample opportunity for them to reflect on the strategies they have used and the skills they are using. There are 17 major topics included in this book, and in the workbook, Peer Power Book Two, Workbook Applying Peer Helper Skills. The topics include: drugs and alcohol abuse, taking care of you through stress management, leadership training, tutoring, group work, enhancing sexual health, disordered eating, suicide prevention, coping with loss, highway traffic safety, bullying reduction, mentoring, crisis management, character education, problem gambling prevention, and tobacco prevention.

o Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to Finding a Quality Executive Coach (Bright Sky Press, 2011) by John Reed, Ph.D. Available on Amazon.com and similar sites and at www.pinpointingexcellence.com Guides consumers of executive coaching services with a practical and discriminating 2-step process for evaluating, grading and selecting the best available executive coach, applying both concrete and subjective information. Meets the increasingly critical consumer need - in the completely unregulated and chaotic executive coaching field - to make straightforward and accurate comparisons of coaching candidates based on their depth in not only coaching but also in business, psychology and ethics. This helps minimize risk and maximize ROI for those charged with selecting the best coach for their particular needs.

o The EQ Leader Program: How to launch and implement successful EQ consulting and coaching projects by Dana C. Ackley, Ph.D. (2006), published by MHS in July, 2006. Description: This book is a 336 page manual for a model program to build the emotional intelligence skills of leaders in organizations. It is based on the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), the first, and so far, only measure of emotional intelligence to be favorably reviewed by Buros Mental Measurement Yearbook. The program has five steps: (1) a one day keynote seminar designed to win the interest and involvement of executives in their EQ development; (2) assessment/feedback processes that include a semi-structured interview, behavioral interview questions for each of the fifteen skills measured by the EQ-I, and detailed guidelines for the development of a personalized report that integrates E!-I and interview findings; (3) a ten step developmental planning process that creates a concrete, executable plan for each participant with measurable goals; (4) review of goals with the participant’s manager; and (5) executive coaching. The manual comes with a CD that holds key documents, such as the 60 page outline for the keynote seminar and menus of exercises for the development of each EQ skill. Those who purchase the manual purchase rights to download the documents, edit them to fit their own company or practice and to reproduce them. Thus, buyers can edit the keynote outline, PowerPoint and handouts to suit themselves. They can reproduce the menus of exercises for their clients and put their own letterhead on them. More details are available from Dana’s website: www.eqleader.net.

o Value + Employees as Valuers. by Billie G. Blair, Ph.D. Puzzles Press, Austin, TX, 2009. Available through Amazon, bookstores and www.changestrategists.com. VALUE + EMPLOYEES AS VALUERS was written for all managers and employees of corporations, businesses, and other organizations. This book is the second-in-a-series on the topic of organizational change management. Over the past three years, Billie Blair has written on the topic of change with the express purpose of providing guidance for corporate clients while undergoing change processes. (An earlier book, ALL THE MOVING PARTS: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT was published in 2007). VALUE + identifies the single most important business challenge for this decade: employees' engagement in their organization of employment. VALUE + is incisive in its description of this pressing business challenge and clearly outlines the six steps for overcoming these difficulties and setting up the organization capable of carrying out the processes of adding value. The book is filled with real time case studies that serve to explicate concepts described. Also offered are best approaches along with easy to follow strategies for those who care about organizations and who are dedicated to their survival. The book was specifically written to be read and absorbed quickly by busy executives. VALUE + and the message that it imparts has been selected by the California chapters of Habitat for Humanity as the foal point of their 2010 Fall Leadership Conference.


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