Learning from Life E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 32

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

It's widely accepted in organizations that experience gained from job assignments and formal training helps managers develop their skills in such areas as implementing agendas, working through relationships, creating change, and increasing personal awareness. If you are a manager who has set developmental goals for yourself, you will be able to achieve those goals through skills you learn and practice both on and off the job. This guidebook shows you how experiences from family relationships, friendships, volunteer work, and personal avocations can enhance your professional growth and effectiveness. This guidebook is for both women and men, to help them achieve a richer and more fruitful interaction between work and personal life.

Leseprobe

Contents

The Pull of Work and Life

What You Can Learn from Nonwork Experiences

Interpersonal Skills

Handling Multiple Tasks

Using Relevant Background and Information

Leadership Practice

How Private Life Promotes Leadership Development

Personal Life Experiences Provide Psychological Strength

Personal Relationships Provide Support for Handling Leadership Challenges

Personal Lives Provide Motivation and Opportunities to Learn Leadership Skills

What Work Experience Can Teach About Life Skills

Make It All Work Together

Serving as a Role Model

From Life to Work and Back Again

Suggested Readings

Background

Key Point Summary

Lead Contributors

Ideas into Action Guidebook

Aimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others’ development, each guidebook in this series gives specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership problem.

LEAD CONTRIBUTORSMarian N. RudermanPatricia J. OhlottGUIDEBOOK ADVISORY GROUPVictoria A. GuthrieCynthia D. McCauleyRuss S. MoxleyDIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONSMartin WilcoxEDITORPeter SciscoDESIGN AND LAYOUTJoanne FergusonCONTRIBUTING ARTISTSLaura J. Gibson,Chris Wilson, 29 & Company

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All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

CCL No. 407ISBN-13: 978-1-882197-60-6ISBN-10: 1-882197-60-7

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The Ideas Into Action Guidebook Series

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) has generated in the course of more than thirty years of research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared—in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today’s leadership and organizational challenges.

The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that the series carries out CCL’s mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We think you will find the Ideas Into Action Guidebooks an important addition to your leadership toolkit.

Executive Brief

It’s widely accepted in organizations that experience gained from job assignments and formal training helps managers develop their skills in such areas as implementing agendas, working through relationships, creating change, and increasing personal awareness. If you are a manager who has set developmental goals for yourself, you will be able to achieve those goals through skills you learn and practice both on and off the job. This guidebook shows you how experiences from family relationships, friendships, volunteer work, and personal avocations can enhance your professional growth and effectiveness. This guidebook is for both women and men, to help them achieve a richer and more fruitful interaction between work and personal life.

The Pull of Work and Life

If you were to ask managers and executives where they get the most influential and effective developmental training, the answer you’re likely to get is “on the job.” It’s widely accepted in organizations that experience gained from job assignments and formal training helps managers develop their skills in such areas as implementing agendas, working through relationships, creating change, and increasing personal awareness.