Development First: Strategies for Self-Development - Softcover

Peterson, David B.; Hicks, Mary Dee

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Synopsis

Development First is concise guide that provides practical ways to integrate development with your responsibilities and goals so you can do your job better, now and in the future. "First" is an acronym for the five simple steps that can help drive your development.

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About the Author

David Peterson and Mary Dee Hicks have devoted much of their careers to helping organizations and their people become stronger through the development of individual talents. As psychologists and leadership coaches, they have cultivated practical approaches to development that have been consolidated into workshops, presentations and publications, including Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development and Leader As Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others.

From the Back Cover

Development First is the first in a series of books dealing with practical approaches to individual and team development within the changing corporate environment. Its five concise development strategies enable users to plan and execute their own development in a busy, demanding world.

Personnel Decisions International is a global, multiservice, human resources consulting firm. Our goal is to help clients build effective organizations and gain competitive advantage through wisely choosing and effectively developing their most important asset - people.

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From Development Is Not Optional: Because of the rapid changes taking place in today's workplace, we discern two new critical success factors: 1. Individuals must learn and apply new skills quickly. 2. Leaders must help others learn new skills and change their behavior. No matter what your job is, you feel pressures to work faster, smarter, and better. To stay competitive, you have to develop new capabilities to do more with less, reduce cycle time, improve processes, stay abreast of technology, launch programs, and devise new market strategies. And if you don't continually improve these capabilities, you will fall behind. Development is not optional.

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