Bookshelf
The Art & Science of Facilitation...
The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams explores what it truly means to guide groups towards productive and meaningful outcomes.
Have you ever found yourself in a team that feels stuck in repetition, unsure how to move forward? Or been present in a highly charged group discussion where tensions run high and you were uncertain how to intervene effectively?
Anyone responsible for leading teams of any size will likely, at some point, step into the role of facilitator. However, facilitation goes far beyond using simple tools such as sticky notes, dot voting, or whiteboards. While these techniques can support collaboration, they are only part of a much broader skill set required to guide teams effectively.
This book delves into the deeper principles behind facilitation, particularly within agile environments, and explores how facilitators can help teams think more clearly, communicate more effectively, and achieve better results together.
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168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time.
We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in.
Available in Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook and Kindle Edition
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3hag Way
3HAG WAY: The Strategic Execution System that ensures your strategy is not a Wild-Ass-Guess!
Every company needs a 3HAG—a 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal! The 3HAG WAY is a prescriptive framework that takes the guessing out of your strategy and ensures that you and your whole team are confident in where you are going. It breaks your strategy down into a clear and simple picture—so clear and simple that the whole team will be able to see where the company is going and where it will end up in three years’ time. This strategic clarity will align, engage, and empower your team to make confident decisions in order to achieve your 3HAG.
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4 Disciplines of Execution: Getting Strategy Done
The Four Disciplines of Execution is about a simple, proven formula for reaching your goals as a business or individual.
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A Complaint Is a Gift: How to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty
A customer complaint is the most valuable source of feedback you can receive to improve your business. This new and improved second edition guides you through responding to complaints, taking advantage of when complaints become personal, and how you, too, can complain constructively and effectively.
The first edition of A Complaint Is a Gift introduced the revolutionary notion that customer complaints are not annoyances to be dodged, denied, or buried but are instead valuable pieces of feedback--in fact, they're your best bargain in market research.
Available in Paperback, Audible and Kindle Edition
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Over the years, A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD has been praised by business people, educators, scientists, homemakers, artists, youth leaders, and many more. The book has been stimulating creativity in millions of readers, translated into eleven languages, and used in seminars around the world.
Now Roger von Oech's fully illustrated and updated volume is filled with even more provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories, and tips designed to systematically break through your mental blocks and unlock your mind for creative thinking. This new edition will attract an entire new generation of readers with updated and mind-stretching material.
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ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
Why do some change initiatives deliver lasting results while others fall short?
How can leaders navigate the wide range of change management methods and choose the right approach?
And what does it take to lead successful change in both organizations and everyday life?
Developed through more than 14 years of research into organizational transformation, the ADKAR model provides a practical and comprehensive framework for managing change at both the individual and organizational levels. Designed to simplify the complexities of change management, the model focuses on achieving measurable results by guiding people through each stage of the change process.
The ADKAR framework integrates the essential components of successful change initiatives, including change readiness, executive sponsorship, communication planning, coaching, training, and resistance management. By aligning these elements within a structured, people-centered approach, it helps organizations build commitment, improve adoption, and sustain change over the long term. Whether leading business transformation or personal development, the ADKAR model offers a proven roadmap for implementing change effectively and achieving lasting success.
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Atomic Habits
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: OVER 25 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now.
People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call.
Available in Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audiobook and Hardback
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Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today's Transformational Leaders
Transform your organization!
Lasting organizational transformation begins with personal transformation. Leaders who want to drive meaningful change must first develop the mindset, behaviors, and leadership approach needed to inspire and sustain change throughout their organizations.
Beyond Change Management explores the powerful relationship between leadership style, mindset, and organizational transformation. Rather than viewing transformation as a process that can simply be managed, the book encourages leaders to adopt new ways of thinking and leading that support deep, sustainable change.
Drawing on the principles of Organization Development (OD), the book integrates leadership, change management, organizational development, and personal awareness into a unified framework for transformational leadership. It provides practical insights for helping leaders cultivate the mindset, capabilities, and behaviors required to guide organizations through complex change, foster innovation, and build resilient, high-performing cultures. This thought-provoking resource is essential for executives, managers, consultants, and change practitioners seeking to create lasting organizational success.
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Biased
'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
'Poignant... striking... important and illuminating. 'NEW YORK TIMES No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still don't treat people equally. Why not?
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Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years.
Now, this beloved author shares her wisdom and unique understanding of creativity, shattering the perceptions of mystery and suffering that surround the process – and showing us all just how easy it can be.
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Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google?
What links Team Sky and the aviation industry?
What connects James Dyson and David Beckham?
They are all Black Box Thinkers.
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