Developing Leadership: A Learning and Development Manual - Softcover

Gilbert, Peter; Thompson, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905541619 ISBN 13: 9781905541614

Publisher: Russell House Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The quality of leadership is often the key difference between organizational success and failure, creating either a positive and energizing place to work or a negative, stressful environment. This manual - for managers, directors, trainers, councilors, and human resource personnel - will help create cultures and working environments that motivate and inspire people. It presents effective leadership as inseparable from other issues of workplace well-being, and as something that can pay dividends in terms of higher standards of work, higher levels of job satisfaction, a better working environment, fewer mistakes, diffusing difficult situations, clearer procedures and expectations, and more opportunities for learning. To help unlock these benefits, the book provides background information and a theoretical underpinning on leadership in modern organizations, and includes exercises, leadership biographies, and presentation slides.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Gilbert is an independent consultant in social and health care, Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University, and visiting Professor with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust and the University of Worcester. He worked for 27 years in local government social services, as a practitioner/manager and senior manager, including being Director of Social Services in Worcestershire from 1997 to 2001. He is the author of Leadership: Being Effective and Remaining Human (RHP, 2005) and co-editor of Spirituality, Values and Mental Health (Jessica Kinglsey, 2007). He recently co-authored a national position paper for SCIE on leadership and personalisation. Neil Thompson is Director of Avenue Consulting Ltd (www.avenueconsulting.co.uk), a company offering training and consultancy across the 'people professions' - that is, the helping professions plus management, supervision and leadership more broadly. He has over 100 publications to his name, including best-selling textbooks, papers in learned journals and training and open learning materials. His website is www.neilthompson.info.

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell House Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905541619
• ISBN 13: 9781905541614
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 157