Download or read book Creating Adaptable Teams From the Psychology of Coaching to the Practice of Leaders written by David Webster and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide for coaches, leaders and team members will help readers create team success in a modern context. Adaptability has now become a core skill and adaptable teams create foundations that withstand the increasing speed of change, allowing for quality in performance to be sustained. This book defines the core components of the Adaptable Team™ Framework, to embed the principles and practice of team support. As teams can often work in a range of volatile, uncertain and ambiguous environments, this book offers numerous tips for readers on their quest for team excellence: -Supporting the team coach and coaching psychologist in their preparation and design for team interventions, by providing both theory and practical application of evidenced-based approaches -Guiding leaders looking to coach their own teams and managers to lead success -Highlighting each leader’s unique contribution -Providing team members a map by which to navigate their professional development as leaders and team members “There are pearls of wisdom on every page which are invaluable to every leader, coach and team.” Professor Karen Middleton CBE, FCSP, MA, Chief Executive, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy “Whether you’re a CEO or CHRO working on team dynamics, or a coach seeking to deepen your practice, you’ll find excellent food for thought on every page.” Caroline Webb, Author of global best seller ‘How To Have A Good Day’ and Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company “David has a profound understanding of what makes teams resilient in change and positioned to perform in the modern world.” Andrew Shebbeare, Managing Partner, Counteract “Possibly the best book on teams and coaching I have read." Jonathan Passmore, Director, Henley Centre for Coaching & Behavioural Change David Webster is Founding Partner at Centre for Teams, UK and an award-winning coaching psychologist, specialising in senior teams. A former Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Coaching Psychology Group, and a martial art black belt, David can also be found hill walking with his dog Molly, cycling and enjoying live music and theatre.

Download or read book The Triumphant Team written by Declan Woods and published by Right Book Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n The Triumphant Team, leading team psychologist Dr Declan Woods provides forty dynamic practices to help any team work more effectively, perform better, and deliver the results their organisation expects. Teams can often be complex, messy and a bit slippery, and getting the best out of them can feel like an uphill struggle. It’s a sad fact that most teams underperform, and few ever realise their true potential. This uniquely practical self-help book for teams will show you how to release their magic. It demystifies the common-place challenges that teams face in the workplace, and by focussing on those things that make a real difference, it takes all the guess work out of the drive for top performance. Through an accessible range of tried-and-tested, flexible practices, you’ll discover how to build and nurture a united, cohesive team whilst getting to grips with those intangible, elusive issues that can impact your team’s effectiveness and undermine its productivity. Whether you’re leading a team or working in one that’s in need of some extra help and direction, this smart guidebook will provide you with a wealth of practices to adapt as part of your everyday routines, and the power to transform your team from simply ticking over to being truly triumphant.

Download or read book Team Effectiveness In Complex Organizations written by Eduardo Salas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 40 years, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of teams for accomplishing work in organizations. Project teams, self-managed work teams and top management teams, among others have become a regular element in the corporation or military. This volume is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art research on team effectiveness.

Download or read book Creating Adaptable Teams From the Psychology of Coaching to the Practic E of Leaders written by David Webster and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide for coaches, leaders and team members will help readers create team success in a modern context. Adaptability has now become a core skill and adaptable teams create foundations that withstand the increasing speed of change, allowing for quality in performance to be sustained. This book defines the core components of the Adaptable Team(TM) Framework, to embed the principles and practice of team support. As teams can often work in a range of volatile, uncertain and ambiguous environments, this book offers numerous tips for readers on their quest for team excellence: -Supporting the team coach and coaching psychologist in their preparation and design for team interventions, by providing both theory and practical application of evidenced-based approaches -Guiding leaders looking to coach their own teams and managers to lead success -Highlighting each leader's unique contribution -Providing team members a map by which to navigate their professional development as leaders and team members "There are pearls of wisdom on every page which are invaluable to every leader, coach and team." Professor Karen Middleton CBE, FCSP, MA, Chief Executive, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy "Whether you're a CEO or CHRO working on team dynamics, or a coach seeking to deepen your practice, you'll find excellent food for thought on every page." Caroline Webb, Author of global best seller 'How To Have A Good Day' and Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company "David has a profound understanding of what makes teams resilient in change and positioned to perform in the modern world." Andrew Shebbeare, Managing Partner, Counteract "Possibly the best book on teams and coaching I have read." Jonathan Passmore, Director, Henley Centre for Coaching & Behavioural Change David Webster is Founding Partner at Centre for Teams, UK and an award-winning coaching psychologist, specialising in senior teams. A former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Coaching Psychology Group, and a martial art black belt, David can also be found hill walking with his dog Molly, cycling and enjoying live music and theatre.

Download or read book Understanding Adaptability written by C. Shawn Burke and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance.

Download or read book Leadership Team Coaching in Practice written by Peter Hawkins and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-performing and cohesive leadership team is essential for organizational success. Leadership Team Coaching in Practice provides an overview of the tools and techniques for coaching leadership teams and shows how these approaches have been applied around the world in a variety of team types and industries. Featuring expert contributions from chief executives, team coaches, team leaders and consultants in organizations including Comair and the UK National Health Service (NHS), this practical guide illustrates best practice tailored to the needs of each organization. The new and updated third edition of Leadership Team Coaching in Practice incorporates the latest research and thinking in the field, including new material on developing the personal core capacities for systemic team coaching. Alongside updates to case studies to offer a long-term view of interventions, the third edition contains new case studies including team coaching in Toyota through a period of transformation. There is a new medley chapter of short case stories that address some of the regularly asked questions by new team coaches and new material that explores ways of creating a teaming and 'team of teams' culture. This book remains an essential resource for executive and team coaches, CEOs, team leaders, organizational development consultants, and those studying coaching as part of a degree or coaching qualification.

Download or read book Leader and Team Adaptation written by Stephen J. Zaccaro and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the results of a series of investigations that examined (a) the role of feedback processes as a leadership tool in team adaptation, (b) the influence of developmental work experiences on team and leader adaptability, and (c) the effects of combinations of leader qualities on the display of adaptation processes and performance in dynamic military and business settings. The results of these investigations indicated that (a) process-oriented, team level, and public feedback from leaders was most effective in facilitating team adaptation, particularly when team members possess high levels of cognitive skills; (b) developmental assignments are associated with growth in social competencies, but only when participating leaders have high levels of metacognitive skill, cognitive complexity, and tolerance for ambiguity; (c) social competencies influence leader adaptability, but only when the organizational climate supports innovation; and (d) several cognitive, social, and dispositional leader attributes were related singly and in combination to leader adaptability.

Download or read book Design is Power written by Francesco Galli and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2020-12-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are no longer used to critically examining the meaning of “design”, which maintains an unexplored dimension in terms of the Power that can be exercised through the cyclic act of creation, preservation and disruption. This assumption induce us focus on the contrast between the “visible” side of the act that involves all its conceptual and practical manifestations, and a hidden or “dark” side that deals with politics and power play, but that however has an major influence in the process and its hierarchical dynamics. This implies an order on the surface seems to be naturally stirred by the so-called “perceptions” that reflect the preferences of overall public opinions: however, looking deeper, all the production acts involves a carefully controlled disequillibrium influenced by social, ecological, economical and political interests. The power fl ow in the act of “design” takes into consideration the paradoxical contradiction between its potentiality and its preservation of power.

Download or read book Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology written by Laura L. Koppes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the first to contain a comprehensive history of industrial and organizational psychology, covering numerous topics in the discipline. The history presented offers various perspectives, including the contributions of individuals, organizations, and contextual or situational forces, as well as an international viewpoint. The authors, all highly regarded experts in their respective topics, use a range of approaches to examine history, demonstrating to readers that there are multiple ways to understand history. This volume will be of interest to industrial and organizational psychologists, business and management academics and professionals, historians of psychology, business, science and science and technology, undergraduate, and graduate students.

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Download or read book Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace written by Wendy-Ann Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-to-practice text explores how coaching can support thriving in the workplace. It focuses on positive psychology coaching in the workplace in relation to: the convergence with organisational psychology and coaching psychology, professional and ethical practices, resilience and wellbeing, team and systemic approaches, leadership, tools of intervention, convergence of clinical interventions and virtuousness, and the future of thriving workplaces. The chapter contributions represent a truly international scholarship and bring together complementary perspectives from the fields of positive psychology, coaching psychology, organisational psychology, organisational scholarship, neuroscience, education and philosophy. Written in a scholarly but accessible style, this text is of interest to a wide readership, including academics, professionals and postgraduate students of positive psychology, organisational psychology, counselling and coaching psychology, human resource management, mental health, health and social welfare. "Smith, Boniwell and Green have brought together an outstanding collection of thought leaders from the field of positive psychology coaching to craft an in-depth exploration of the contribution positive psychology can make to delivering transformation change through coaching conversations. A fascinating read, full of evidence and insight". Jonathan Passmore Professor of Coaching & Behavioural Change Director Henley Centre for Coaching, Henley Business School

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Leadership written by Michael G. Rumsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book both acknowledges the complexity emerging from the three main components of leadership--the leader, the led, and the environment--while providing a sound, foundational structure in which the complexity of this area of study can be better understood.

Download or read book The Team Coaching Casebook written by David Clutterbuck and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teams are a crucial part of working life, and they can also be a source of challenges, frustrations and opportunities. This industry first book explores the breadth of approaches available throughout a team coaching engagement narrated through case studies and editorial commentary. It illustrates the eclectic and emergent nature of interventions that enable teams to achieve lasting positive changes in capability. Drawing together 23 cases from multiple theoretical perspectives and industries from team coaching practitioners from across the globe, this book: •Includes the experiences, insights and learning of team leaders and team members as well as the team coaches with quotes and data from each engagement •Offers insight into the original need for the team coaching in each case study •Explores how the team relates to itself, its stakeholders and the wider system •Explains how the team coach or coaches engaged with the team detailing the specific practices the team coach used and the outcomes achieved •Features forewords from leading writers on coaching and team coaching: Nick Smith, Peter Hawkins and Paul Lawrence These features make it a fresh and valuable source of insight and reflection for both novice and experienced team coaches, team leaders, organisational sponsors, and buyers of team coaching. “Readers will take away a tangible sense of current team coaching practice and frameworks and feel more capable, knowledgeable, and confident working with teams.” Dr. Catherine Carr, Team Coach, Supervisor and Systemic Team Coaching Instructor, Co-Author of High Performance Team Coaching “This casebook offers inspiration and wisdom from an impressive array of experienced practitioners.” Ruth Wageman, PhD., Author of Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great, Founder of 6 Team Conditions “This book presents action research at its best. With its diverse array of settings, the book conveys practical wisdom related to the challenges and opportunities of team coaching.” Amy C. Edmondson, Professor at Harvard Business School, Author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth David Clutterbuck is one of the early pioneers of coaching and is co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). He is also practice lead of Coaching and Mentoring International (CMI). Tammy Turner is CEO of Turner International and is Core Faculty and Head of Supervision at the Global Coach Training Institute (GTCI). She is an accredited master team and individual coach. Colm Murphy is an accredited master executive coach and team coach and Head of Coaching at Smurfit Executive Development, University College Dublin, Ireland. Colm is managing director of Dynamic Leadership Development. He is also Core Faculty at the Global Coach Training Institute (GTCI).

Download or read book Coaching Education Leaders written by Nancy B. Gutiérrez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book is designed to help coaches, or individuals in a coaching and/or capacity-building role, support educators in becoming culturally responsive leaders. Coaching Education Leaders describes a unique Facilitative Competency-Based Coaching approach formulated by the nationally recognized nonprofit organization The Leadership Academy. Using six Equity Leadership Dispositions as its foundation, this model helps educators identify and directly address inequities in their schools to ensure the academic, social, and emotional success of all students. The strategies in this book help coaches plan the full arc of the coaching experience, from identifying goals and assessing progress, to designing each session to meet the individual learning needs of their coachees. To bring these coaching ideas to life, this book shares real stories from the field, illustrating the coach-leader relationship and takeaway tools for readers to immediately apply in their own work. The authors share practical coaching techniques to create a safe learning space and engage coachees in the deeper levels of dialogue required to identify and address systems-level adaptive challenges. This self-paced guide to coaching educators is a key resource for anyone interested in developing others’ for the sake of creating meaningful and sustainable change in their schools, school systems, and in the leaders who lead both.

Download or read book The Practitioner s Handbook of Team Coaching written by David Clutterbuck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s challenges are becoming more and more complex and adapting to those challenges will increasingly come from teams of people innovating together. The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching provides a dedicated and systematic guide to some of the most fundamental issues concerning the practice of team coaching. It seeks to enhance practice through illustrating and exploring an array of contextual issues and complexities entrenched in it. The aim of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and, furthermore, to enhance the understanding and practice of team coaching. To do so, the editorial team presents, synthesizes and integrates relevant theories, research and practices that comprise and undergird team coaching. This book is, therefore, an invaluable specialist tool for team coaches of all levels; from novice to seasoned practitioners. With team coaching assuming an even more prominent place in institutional and organizational contexts nowadays, the book is bound to become an indispensable resource for any coaching training course, as well as a continuing professional development tool. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in coaching, in both practice and educational settings. It will be of use not only for professional coaches, but also for leaders, managers, HR professionals, learners and educators, in the business, public, independent and voluntary sectors.

Download or read book Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization written by Stephen J. Zaccaro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership, teams, and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations. Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapidly pivot in response to shifting strategic demands. Chapters summarize the current state of knowledge, examine past research and theory, define research and theoretical gaps, and consider how to address these gaps. In so doing, they offer an understanding of how senior leadership teams drive and enable organizational activity. The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals looking to understand the intersection of leadership, team dynamics, organizational psychology, organizational psychology, and strategic management, particularly in relation to organizational agility and the senior leadership team.

Download or read book Adaptive Leadership The Heifetz Collection 3 Items written by Ronald A. Heifetz and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of constant change, adaptive leadership is critical. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the seminal ideas on how to adapt and thrive in challenging environments, from leading thinkers on the topic—most notably Ronald A. Heifetz of the Harvard Kennedy School and Cambridge Leadership Associates. The Heifetz Collection includes two classic books: Leadership on the Line, by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, and The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, by Heifetz, Linsky, and Alexander Grashow. Also included is the popular Harvard Business Review article, “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis,” written by all three authors. Available together for the first time, this collection includes full digital editions of each work. Adaptive leadership is a practical framework for dealing with today’s mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty. It has been used by individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments worldwide. In a world of challenging environments, adaptive leadership serves as a guide to distinguishing the essential from the expendable, beginning the meaningful process of adaption, and changing the status quo. Ronald A. Heifetz is a cofounder of the international leadership and consulting practice Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is renowned worldwide for his innovative work on the practice and teaching of leadership. Marty Linsky is a cofounder of CLA and has taught at the Kennedy School for more than twenty-five years. Alexander Grashow is a Senior Advisor to CLA, having previously held the position of CEO.