If you COMMUNICATE WISELY, you can get what you want out of any interaction and leave the other person satisfied, too.The ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR, shows that you're both brave enough to stand up for your rights and you're in control of what you're saying (and more importantly, how you say it).WHAT ARE THE 3 C'S OF ASSERTIVE COMMUNICATION?· Confidence – you believe in your ability to handle a situation.· ...

You've got the team! Great!But how do you know they will work effectively together?And how can you get the right mix of skills and personalities to make your project or company come to life?Behind every successful team is team dynamics. It is these key ingredients that make it or break it for any business. Good Team Communication and Collaboration Are Highly Desirable Traits That Are Important for The Efficiency and Producti...

Did you know that men become emotionally available or unavailable for psychologically predictable reasons? The problem that many women face, however, is a lack of knowledge of the conscious and subconscious psychological factors that make men into good or bad bets for committed relationships. Women looking for committed relationships need to understand the specific factors that make men emotionally available and how women can go about finding and getting involved with them. Women should un...

Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at the peak of their abilities. It involves drawing out people’s strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to function more effectively as members of a team.Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This involves promoting the development of that pers...

Few people devote time to think about, or to improve, their thinking processes, preferring, instead, to focus on outcomes—decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments—that so preoccupy the North American psyche. This fixation on the latter stages of thinking is backwards and responsible, in large part, for results that are not always optimal. Think Well & Prosper provides insights into the structure of thinking. It breaks down—analyses—the thinking process into understandable steps and seq...

What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom?Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students' discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content.Whether you are an Understanding ...

Note from the author with regard to the Second Edition: Writing and training is a continuous search for new ideas or better ways to convey useful information. As a result of continually evaluating of my work, I realized that some sections could be revised to make them easier to understand, while other sections could be expanded to include additional information – increasing the breadth of your knowledge and abilities."If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, ...

Thomas Jefferson once said, “If two individuals get together and exchange a dollar, they each walk away with one dollar. If the same individuals get together and exchange an idea, they both walk away with two ideas.” In many ways, this statement expresses the vastly generative potential or “economics” of modeling.Modeling is the process of taking a complex event or phenomenon and breaking it into small enough chunks so that it can be recapitulated or applied in some way. Behavioral...

In The Hedgehog Effect, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering programs to top-level executives and sets the standard in the field of leadership group coaching.Written for coaches, consultants, leadership development directors, and anyone w...

MUST READ FOR MANAGERS: Thinking well is important in all aspects of life, but tackling it explicitly is often overlooked in work-world training programs. Never have thinking skills been more important than now, in the 3rd Millennium, when companies worldwide competE for a competitive edge. Nowhere do you get more bang for your buck than in staff training that boosts people's abilities in the areas of analysis, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and planning. Also see...

In this classic text, pioneering organizational consultant Edwin C. Nevis presents an approach to organizational consulting which is grounded in Gestalt theory. Nevis brings his well-known insight, conceptual clarity and decades of experience to bear on the entire spectrum of concerns facing organizational consultants in a wide variety of settings.Beginning with the development of the Gestalt approach and the "Cycle of Experience" model, Nevis traces the implications of Gestalt the...

Gestalt Coaching sets out an accessible, succinct yet critical examination of the approach, key concepts and emerging methodology for Gestalt coaching practice.