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From the 2012 author of Power Up, a widely adopted strengths-coaching paradigm, and a coach, author and trainer labeled a “master mentor” and the “coach’s coach” comes The Coaching Pathfinder. This concise guide to all things coaching is a contemporary, evidence-based resource for coaches of all stripes. It is an exceptional resource for coaching professionals already established, as well as those seeking to start or enhance a growing coaching praxis and business. With dozens of very up-to-date references to literature for both targeting and enlarging the essential elements of top-notch coaching, this book affords the reader a range of processes and procedures for a masterful performance of this now uhelping skill now universally viewed as essential. Gene Knott has compiled the very best know-how elements for excelling as an independent practitioner, as a coaching supervisor, for leaders of teams at any organization level, or a person charged with deepening HR practices from on-boarding to developing veteran staff. With dozens of new and revised tools and a keen, pliable and readily adopted model, The Coaching Pathfinder is a comprehensive address of all matters coaching. Divided into nine highly readable chapters in three complementary segments, the highly readable and story-laden book starts with coaching as a practice, then covers the four main groups of assets: strengths, mindset, skill set and toolsets, and finishes with applications for coaching as team leader and for adopting organization-wide coaching or mentoring programs. The accumulated experience of a 34-year diverse coaching practice and instructional history combines herein for a unique set of approaches, with solid, science-based and rich insights for the reader who would learn anew. With a learner’s bent in mind, and the perspectives from actual cases with reflective inquiry, as well as end-of-chapter review questions, this book offers a wealth of useful and readily useable features for the supervisor, team leader, coach or mentor. Highlighting key topics from development to decision-making, and the centrality of change, to how to conduct a coaching compact over time, this is a book any coaching practitioner, literally any person looking to enlarge their adoption of a reliable, resourceful set of coaching processes in their corporate work will want at the ready.
We are on the verge of the nation's worst nursing shortage in history. Dedicated nurses are leaving hospitals in droves, and there are not enough new recruits to the profession to meet demand. Even hospitals that were once very highly regarded for the quality of their nursing care, such as Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, now struggle to fill vacant positions. What happened? Dana Beth Weinberg argues that hospital restructuring in the 1990s is to blame.
In their attempts to retain profit margins or even just to stay afloat, hospitals adopted a common set of practices to cut costs and increase revenues. Many strategies squeezed greater productivity out of nurses and other hospital workers. Nurses' workloads increased to the point that even the most skilled nurses questioned whether they could provide minimal, safe care to patients. As hospitals hemorrhaged money, it seemed that no one--not hospital administrators, not doctors--felt they could afford to listen to nurses.
Through a careful look at the effects of the restructuring strategies chosen and implemented by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the author examines management's efforts to balance service and survival. By showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, Weinberg provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care.
Kevin O Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and life.
Can you make millions just by visualizing yourself rich as some business prophets suggest? Don t buy it, says Kevin O Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you re going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance, focus and perseverance, you can turn entrepreneurial vision into lucrative reality and have the personal freedom that only wealth can buy.
Kevin O Leary would know. The much-feared and revered Dragon on the immensely popular show Dragons Den (and Shark Tank in the U.S.) started his company in his basement with a $10,000 loan from his financially savvy mother. A few years later, Kevin sold that company for more than four billion dollars. In this compelling, candid and, above all else, brutally honest business memoir, Kevin provides engaging, practical advice and lessons that will give anyone a distinct competitive edge.
Kevin O'Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and life.
Can you make millions just by "visualizing yourself rich" as some business prophets suggest? Don't buy it, says Kevin O'Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you're going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance, focus and perseverance, you can turn entrepreneurial vision into lucrative reality and have the personal freedom that only wealth can buy. Kevin O'Leary would know. The much-feared and revered Dragon on the immensely popular show Dragons' Den (and Shark Tank in the U.S.) started his company in his basement with a $10,000 loan from his financially savvy mother. A few years later, Kevin sold that company for more than four billion dollars. In this compelling, candid and, above all else, brutally honest business memoir, Kevin provides engaging, practical advice and lessons that will give anyone a distinct competitive edge.