Center For Creative Leadership: 135 books

There are subtle but potent differences in the ways decisions are made to promote men and women. This publication looks at these differences through a study conducted at one Fortune 500 company. It discusses the several ways that the promotion decision process can undermine women’s advancement and outlines strategies for making balanced decisions.

On-the-job experiences are crucial for managerial development, and managers learn the most when they approach them with a variety of learning tactics. Of the four most commonly used tactics - feeling, action, thinking, and accessing others - people typically employ only one or two, thus limiting their...

Performance reviews vary from one organization to the next. This guidebook will help you understand how to use feedback in whatever performance review context you find yourself. It explains three feedback principles and four different types of feedback. It will help you understand when to use the...

Ganz gleich, welche Stellung Sie in Ihrer Organisation innehaben - ob Fachgebietsleiter, Teamleiter oder Führungskraft auf höchster Ebene -, die Fähigkeit, sinnvolles und wirkungsvolles Feedback zu geben, ist ein maßgeblicher Beitrag zur Entwicklung von Mitarbeitern sowie zur Bewältigung von...

In today's business world, the complexity and pace of change can be daunting. Adaptability is a necessary skill for leaders to develop in order to respond effectively to this change. This guidebook contributes to a greater understanding of adaptability and the cognitive, emotional, and dispositional...

Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamonds, on a mid-eighteenth century railroad...

Why aren't suck-ups seen for what they really are? Why do organizations reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren't the most qualified? These are critically important questions. Beyond bruised egos and a free-floating sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: when the...

More and more managerial challenges require leaders to be accountable-to take initiative without having full authority for the process or the outcomes. Accountability goes beyond responsibility. Whereas responsibility is generally delegated by the boss, the organization, or by virtue of position,...

Formal feedback experiences and career transitions both involve acquiring new skills and honing current ones. Critical to this is measuring progress. This guidebook provides a proven technique on how to get and use the feedback that will help. Tips on how to evaluate the feedback and what to do if the decision is made not to use it are also provided.

This book is modeled after "Eighty-eight Assignments for Development in Place," one of CCL's most popular publications. In the years since that report was published, we have learned more about development in place--from research, from working with managers and organizations that are making...

This book provides you with the means to set development goals and to track your progress on achieving them. Tracking your development can be captured in a few steps: articulating your goal, creating an action plan, gathering information about your behavior, identifying barriers and support, and revising...

The Learning Tactics Inventory Facilitator's Guide will assist facilitators, trainers, and presenters with the resources to offer the optimal learning experience for those taking the self-scoring Learning Tactics Inventory. The guide offers: • An explanation of the underlying learning model; •...

Because executives tend to be problem solvers, they typically focus on weaknesses when they want to improve their performance. This approach can be helpful but there is another that can be just as effective: recognizing strengths. A senior manager whom the author interviewed said this about a top...

Chances are, you already know what it’s like to work for a toxic boss. You know they suck the air out of a room and the life out of their employees, and you don’t need a research report to tell you that working for one is a nightmare. If this sounds like your current reality, and you want help,...