Self-Managed Development Pocketbook (Management Pocketbook Series) Dent, Fiona

The individual's role in self-managed development: raising self-awareness (through skills audits, performance reviews and SWOT), reviewing self-perceptions (to increase awareness of new possibilities) and, finally, action planning (setting objectives and measuring commitment and motivation)

Fiona Elsa Dent, MA., MSC., Chartered FCIPD, FHEAFiona is an independent management trainer, consultant, coach and author. She spent over 20 years on the faculty at Ashridge Business School and continues to work with them as a leadership coach and tutor on various programmes. She is predominantly interested in helping people to develop their personal skills to be the best they can be. Her particular specialisms are influencing, interpersonal and relationship skills.Her books cover topics such as influencing, people management skills, self-managed development, women in business and coaching and mentoring. She has written two other Pocketbooks: 'Leadership' and 'Working Relationships'; her latest publications are 'The Leader's Guide to Coaching & Mentoring: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results' (with Mike Brent 2015) and 'How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman: The Coach Yourself Toolkit (with Viki Holton 2016).