Synopsis
Whereas most management psychology books focus on how you can manage others, Using Your Mind focuses on how you can manage yourself - a priority often overlooked in management training and the workplace. The author draws upon his renowned lifeskills counselling approach and practical experience in counselling business executives in order to empower you to make skilful thinking choices at work. Thinking skills covered in this book include: owning responsibility, using self-talk, choosing realistic rules, perceiving accurately, explaining cause, predicting, setting goals, visualizing, making decisions and preventing and managing problems. The book concludes with an innovative guide to maintaining your thinking skills long after you have learned them. Using Your Mind is an extremely practical 'how-to' book which contains over 50 exercises to help you build and apply your skills. Each of the chapters is carefully structured to maximize clarity. Whatever stage of your career you have reached, this book is packed with invaluable advice, case examples, tools and techniques to make you more relaxed, confident and effective at work.
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Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society's Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section. In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.
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