In the past few years, management development has increasingly involved 360-degree feedback--an experience in which a person receives ratings of performance from peers, superiors, and subordinates; compares these with self-ratings; and perhaps gets limited coaching and sets goals for improvement. It is generally considered an effective development technique for all levels of management. Senior executives, however, because of the breadth of challenges...

Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion? This publication features the insights of a group of experienced professionals on both sides of the issue. To set the stage, George P. Hollenbeck, a management psychologist and adjunct faculty...

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.

Translated into over 50 languages, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it is a guide to a spiritual journey that has transformed millions of lives. Once you take this journey, you'll never be the same again. This new, expanded edition of The Purpose Driven Life, created for a new generation of reader, includes: Video introductions by Rick Warren to chapters 1-42 and an audio Bible study at the end of each chapter, with over 30 additional...

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience. But not all feedback is effective in making the best use of that experience. This guidebook demonstrates how to make the feedback you give more effective so that others can benefit from your message.

With their massive volume and constantly moving currents, oceans provide a vast reservoir of energy. Explore how the winds help generate movement in the ocean and, in turn, how the oceans affect weather all over the world, creating a huge feedback loop that helps create our climate.

Volume 1 of a training set of 4 videos a Consultant Clinical Psychologist Paul Grantham provides viewers with new, evidence based approaches towards self-esteem work. His presentation is extremely engaging, thought-provoking, sometimes controversial, but never boring. While watching this video you will feel like a member of the group attending Paul’s workshop. Try to answer his questions with the delegates – there are plenty of opportunities to...

Volume 3 of a training set of 4 videos a Consultant Clinical Psychologist Paul Grantham provides viewers with new, evidence based approaches towards self-esteem work. His presentation is extremely engaging, thought-provoking, sometimes controversial, but never boring. While watching this video you will feel like a member of the group attending Paul’s workshop. Try to answer his questions with the delegates – there are plenty of opportunities to...