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    Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience
    Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience
    Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience
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    Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience

    By Bob Thomson

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJan 31, 2006
    ISBN9781780631547
    Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience
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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.

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