Growing People
Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience
- 1st Edition - January 31, 2006
- Latest edition
- Author: Bob Thomson
- Language: English
Growing People offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the… Read more
Growing People offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organisations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences. It shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues.
- Written by an experienced management development professional in clear and easily understood language
- Aimed at busy line managers who want to take seriously their role in developing people
- Chapters can be read as stand alone guides to topics such as coaching, feedback and talent management
Managers and human resources professionals
Learning from experience; A coaching approach; Giving, generating and gathering feedback; Mentoring; Developing teams and organisations; Creating relationships; Conversations that make a difference; Talent management.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 31, 2006
- Language: English
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Bob Thomson
Bob Thomson is the Management Development Adviser at the University of Warwick. He is responsible for developing the leadership capability of academic and administrative staff, coaching individuals and teams, and helping departments to improve their effectiveness as an organisation. He was previously Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco where he was responsible for building leadership capability at all levels and shifting the culture to a more open, informal and coaching style of leadership. Bob has qualifications in management learning, coaching and counselling.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Warwick, UKRead Growing People on ScienceDirect