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BOARD
LEADERSHIP
Book:
The
New Effective Voluntary Board of Directors: What It Is and How
It Works
by William R. Conrad, Jr.
ISBN: 080401034X
Book:
Boardroom Basics: A Pocket Guide for Directors , by Roger
H. Ford, PhD.
ISBN: 0966037200
BOARDROOM BASICS is an introductory guide especially aimed at
directors, board leaders and board members of smaller organizations.
Based on Dr. Ford's popular column in DIRECTOR'S MONTHLY, the
official publication of the National Association of Corporate
Directors, the book offers a series of short, easy to read and
apply articles essential for board member education. Dr. Ford's
expertise is complemented with a slate of expert co-authors and
contributing authors
National
Association of Corporate Directors www.nacdonline.org
The NACD is in the forefront of research and education regarding
board leadership. They offer excellent training programs and
a substantive newsletter for members.
Research
Triangle Chapter –NACD www.rtc-nacd.org
My local chapter of the NACD, this organization offers relevant
programs through both its seminar series and its Directors College.
Board
of Directors Network, Inc. www.boarddirectorsnetwork.org
This organization works to increase the presence of women on
corporate boards of directors. Information, membership, newsletter,
and links all available.
Boardsource
www.boardsource.org
Boardsource is a leading resource for building strong and effective
non-profit boards. Training and resources available.
Board
Strategies www.boardstrategies.com
BOARDSTRATEGIES™ is a division of SecTec LLC, a company
founded by Jim Verdonik to create and disseminate information
of interest to the business community. BOARDSTRATEGIES™
is designed to assist companies and individual Directors to
make their Boards of Directors more effective in making strategic
decisions and building shareholder value.
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EXECUTIVE
LEADERSHIP COACHING
Book:
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal , by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
ISBN: 0743226747
We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless.
Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible
into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management
is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr
and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing
energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well
as to health, happiness, and life balance.
Book:
Don't Waste Your Talent : The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best , by Bob McDonald, PhD., and
Don E. Hutcheson
ISBN: 1563526115
Why settle for only sporadic success when you can harness the
creativity of your unique talents and soar? In their groundbreaking
book Don't Waste Your Talent, authors and performance improvement
consultants Bob McDonald, Ph.D. and Don Hutcheson share the secret
to discovering your inborn talents. Find out what you are hard-wired
to do and move closer to your ultimate goal - contentment, fulfillment
and unleashed productivity.
Book:
The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer: A Complete Program for Optimal Health for Body, Mind, and Spirit , by The
Staff of Canyon Ranch with Len Sherman
ISBN: 068487136X
Drawing from Canyon Ranch's experience in fitness, nutrition,
and wellness, The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer
shows you how to use the latest information on human resiliency,
healthy aging, musculoskeletal problems, preventative and integrative
medicine, massage therapy, yoga, healthy sexuality, exercise,
and mindful eating to create a routine that works for you.
Document:
Engaging An Executive Coach download
document
Document:
The Coaching Readiness Worksheet download
document
Article:
Executive Briefing: Case Study on the Return on Investment
of Executive Coaching.
Metrix Global, LLC., 11/2/01, Merrill Anderson
www.coachfederation.org/pressroom/MetrixGlobal-CoachingROI%20Briefing.pdf
Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant
intangible benefits to the business. Including the financial
benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to
788%. The study provided powerful new insights into how to maximize
the business impact from executive coaching.
Article:
Key Findings: ROI on Executive Coaching.
Corporate Leadership Council January 2002, Catalog Number CLC1JYWSE.
www.corporateleadershipcouncil.com
Literature reveals that the financial impact of executive coaching,
calculated by monitoring changes in executive behaviour and
then estimating the financial benefits of these changes, can
be upwards of 500 percent.
Article:
Maximizing Returns on Professional Executive Coaching.
Corporate Leadership Council Strategic Research 2003, February
2003.
www.corporateleadershipcouncil.com
In 2001, the publication of the Council’s reports “The
Voice of the Leader” and “The Leadership Imperative”
began to highlight the challenges associated with one of the
fastest growing areas of leadership development: professional
executive coaching. Across the past six months, the Council
has conducted an in-depth inquiry into how organizations can
maximize the returns on their coaching investments. Council
research suggests that coaching is an area of significant expense
that it is often applied in an uncoordinated and inconsistent
manner, failing to guarantee sufficient returns on the organization’s
investments. Specifically, the Council has found that the variable
returns on coaching can be attributed to challenges both in
guaranteeing a positive engagement between executive and coach
and in linking this engagement to business needs and goals.
Article:
The Wild West of Executive Coaching. Harvard Business Review
November 2004. Reprint RO411E www.hbr.org
In this article, Stratford Sherman, a senior vice-president
of Executive Coaching Network, and Alyssa Freas, the founder
and CEO, explore the popularity of executive coaching and investigate
ways to make the most of the experience. They argue that coaching
is inevitably a triangular relationship between the client,
the "coachee," and the coach. Its purpose is to produce
behavioral change and growth in the coachee for the economic
benefit of the client. The best way to maximize the likelihood
of good results is to qualify all the people involved. Even
so, many triangular relationships continue to generate conflict
among all three parties. At the most basic level, coaches serve
as suppliers of candor, providing leaders with the objective
feedback they need to nourish their growth. Coaching gets executives
to slow down, gain awareness, and notice the effects of their
words and actions. On a larger scale, the best coaching fosters
cultural change for the benefit of the entire organization.
It provides a disciplined way for businesses to deepen relationships
with their most valued employees while also increasing their
effectiveness.
The
Highlands Program www.highlandsprogram.com
The Highlands Company wants individuals to understand their
natural abilities and talents so they bring more of their passions
to work with them, allowing companies and individuals to succeed.
This site provides a broad overview of how the Highlands Ability
Battery works as well as related material.
Franklin
Covey www.franklincovey.com
This company offers solutions to enable your success from optimizing
your productivity to effectively meeting your challenges. Franklin
Covey provides innovative systems that work together providing
you with some of the tools needed to achieve your personal and
professional goals. This site offers solutions and thoughts
on better over-all organization.
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GENERAL
LEADERSHIP
Book:
Blink
: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ,
by Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN: 0316172324
Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music,
and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what
we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much
more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience
and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making
and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process
quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus.
Book:
The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition , by James M. Kouzes and Barry
Z. Posner
ISBN:0787968331
When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted
that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling
leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges
of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and
Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have
completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on
the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition
of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research
and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels
in public and private organizations from around the world.
The
Center for Creative Leadership www.ccl.org
This organization's mission is to advance the understanding, practice
and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.
Through publications, products, events and networks CCL’s
role is to help address the leadership component of both business
and organizational challenges – helping to build, extend
and revitalize the practice of leadership.
Council
for Entrepreneurial Development www.cednc.org
CED provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors,
service professionals, academicians, researchers and public
policy makers who combine their energies to create an environment
in which entrepreneurship can flourish. CED helps entrepreneurs
in wide range industries and at all stages of development—from
high-tech product based organizations to professional service
firms, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses.
Leadership
Triangle www.leadershiptriangle.com
Through our educational programs our mission is to build leadership
capacity, cooperation, and networking opportunities across the
public, private and civic sector, preserving local uniqueness
while acting regionally to deal with issues such as traffic
congestion, water quality, housing affordability, open space,
school funding, and economic and social equity.
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WOMEN
LEADERS
Book:
The
Female Advantage ,
by Sally Helgesen
ISBN:
0385419112
Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders and how their
strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership
styles…Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach
work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences
hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at running organizations
that foster creativity, cooperation, and intuitive decision-making
power, necessities for companies of the twenty-first century.
Book:
Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women ,
by Marian N. Ruderman and Patricia J. Ohlott
ISBN: 0787955701
Thoroughly researched and clearly written, Standing at the
Crossroads speaks to the whole professional woman and her
organization, providing a framework for guiding a woman's growth
and development as a high- achieving leader. The authors debunk
the common myth that women must give up life's other roles to
be successful professionally, and offer research conducted by
the Center for Creative Leadership in conjunction with participants
in The Women's Leadership Program to show that multiple roles
in fact benefit and enhance women's managerial performance. The
book provides individuals and their organizations with invaluable
advice they can use to support women's development as managers
and leaders.
Book:
A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement , by Lee
E. Miller and Jessica Miller
ISBN: 0071389156
The authors feature innovative strategies for negotiating with
aggressive men and competitive women. The authors also explore
the ten common mistakes women make during negotiations and how
to avoid making them. In addition, the book will teach you 3 keys
to successful negotiating. Whether negotiating for a raise or
where to go to dinner with your boyfriend, this book shows you
how to get what you want.
Catalyst
www.catalystwomen.org
This is the premiere nonprofit research and advisory organization
focused on women in business and their professions. The site
offers a wealth of information covering a broad range of topics.
National
Association for Female Executives www.nafe.com
“NAFE, the largest women’s professional association
and the largest women business owners’ organization in
the country, provides resources and services- through education,
networking, and public advocacy to empower its members to achieve
career success and financial security.” This site provides
organizational history, news, networking, and advice.
National
Foundation for Women Business Owners www.nfwbo.org
This site offers a “premier source of knowledge about
women business owners and their enterprises worldwide.”
The
American Institute for Managing Diversity www.aimd.org
AIMD helps people and business prepare for tomorrow by challenging
themselves to anticipate, understand, and manage the needs and
issues that emerge in our changing environment. This site provides
history, tools, and resources.
Advancing
Women www.advancingwomen.com
Advancing Women is a skills based organization that helps to
support success in the workplace for all women at all levels.
This site offers loads of useful information.
The
Women’s Forum of North Carolina www.womensforumnc.org
The WOMEN'S FORUM OF NORTH CAROLINA, Inc. is an invitational,
non-partisan organization of diverse women leaders of proven
influence. Its members are dedicated to working together to
achieve equality and maintain social, economic and political
power for women.
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