Development Partners

recommendations

The following are books, audio books and workshops we have found to be useful in helping our clients to achieve their coaching objectives.  For your convenience, they are arranged by topic:

:: Autobiographies/Biographies
:: Career management
:: Communication skills
:: Creativity
:: Executive Presence
:: Influence
:: Leadership
:: Overcoming barriers to change
:: Personal Development/General
:: Time Management/Organisation/Personal Productivity

We welcome input from clients and friends of Development Partners who may want to write and add a review of their own.  All of the following books are recommended, and we will be adding reviews over time.

Autobiographies/Biographies

Jack:  Straight from the Gut (Jack Welch, 2003, ISBN 0 4465 2838 2, audio available)

Career Management

Work with Passion: How to do what you love for a living (Nancy Anderson,1995, ISBN 1 8800 3254 6)

Communication skills

Fierce Conversations: Achieving success at work and in life one conversation at a time (Susan Scott, 2004 ISBN 0 4251 9337 3, audio available)
> Read review

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey, 1990, ISBN 0 6717 0863 5, audio available)

Leading out Loud (Terry Pearson, 2003, ISBN 0 7879 6397 6)

Creativity

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Julia Cameron, 2002, ISBN 1 5854 2146 4, audio available)

Executive Presence

The Road to CEO (Sharon Voros, 2000, ISBN 1 5806 2326 3)

Influence

Influence:  The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini, 1998, ISBN 0 6881 2816 5)
> Read review

Leadership

Coaching for Performance: Growing people, performance and purpose (John Whitmore, 2002, ISBN 1 8578 8303 9)

Overcoming barriers to change

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway (Susan Jeffers, 1998, ISBN 0 4499 0292 7, audio available)

Learned Optimism: How to change your mind and your life (Martin Seligman, 1998, ISBN 0 6710 1911 2)

Personal Development/General

Just About Everything a Manager Needs to Know (Neil Flannigan and Jarvis Finger, 1998,  ISBN 0 646 33699).

The Successful Manager’s Handbook:  Development Suggestions for Today’s Managers (Personnel Decisions, 2000, 0 938529 20 X)

The Power of Focus: How to hit your business, personal and financial targets with absolute certainty (Jack Canfield, 2000, ISBN 1 5587 4752 4)

Time Management/Organisation/Personal Productivity

First Things First: To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy (Stephen Covey, 1996, ISBN 0 6848 0203 1, abridged version and audio available)

Time Management from the Inside Out (Julie Morgenstern, 2000, ISBN 0 7336 1370 5)