I’m proud to share that the November 2024 edition of AI Practitioner magazine includes a rave review of my book Practical Appreciative Inquiry: How to Use This Leading-Edge Coaching Method Confidently with Teams and Small Groups! The review, by registered psychologist and Appreciative Dialogue practitioner Keith Storace, is full of praise for the book: You
Objective appraisal is impossible Although feedback is famously “the breakfast of champions”, nobody likes getting negative feedback. Now a new book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, by management researcher Marcus Buckingham and SVP of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco Ashley Goodall asserts that most management feedback and
It took me a long time to get round to reading Six Thinking Hats, but finally after 25 years of corporate training I took the plunge. I was expecting a brainstorming process, because that’s how I had most often heard of the ‘Six Hats’ being used, but it turns out that this short and accessible
My friend and former co-trainer Margaret Nash has written a very practical and easy-to-read guide to finding your life’s new direction. As the subtitle implies, it’s written for ‘baby boomers’ (for readers outside the US who aren’t familiar with this term, it refers to people born in the years 1946-1964, in the baby boom after
The Thin Book of SOAR: Building Strengths-Based Strategy by Jacqueline M Stavros and Gina Hinrichs The ‘Thin Books’ series impresses with its aim of presenting key organisational and people development concepts in a brief, fluff-free and practical way which makes it a boon to the busy manager or consultant. The Thin Book of SOAR is
When the first edition of The Solutions Focus came out in 2002 it marked a genuine step forward in thinking about organisational change. It brought the insights of Solution Focused Therapy (developed in the late seventies by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg) into the workplace. The second edition, published in 2007, broadens its
