Helping women get more career savvy
Women are often so focused on proving themselves and doing a good job that they overlook the need to plan and manage their careers . But being more strategic and having a clear plan will give you a better chance of realizing your career ambitions and achieving a more satisfying working life .
This is the core message of a new book , How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman : The Coach- Yourself Toolkit , published as part of the Bloomsbury / Ashridge Executive Education series . Authors Fiona Elsa Dent and Viki Holton provide tools and techniques to help working women navigate challenges and barriers , fulfil their potential , and work out what success looks like for them .
The book is deliberately not about getting to the top or breaking the glass ceiling , because that ’ s not what everyone wants . It is about helping women develop a flexible plan that will give them direction and focus while allowing them to achieve their goals and dreams , whatever they may be .
How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman : The Coach-Yourself Toolkit , Fiona Elsa Dent & Viki Holton , Bloomsbury 2016 , RRP £ 14.99
How emotionally agile are you ?
Understanding yourself and your team is key to business success . A new book from Hult author Kerrie Fleming aims to help leaders do just that — by developing their emotional agility and unlocking the crucial skills needed to increase leadership impact .
The Leader ’ s Guide to Emotional Agility : How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results provides seven step-by-step strategies to help readers understand their own emotions , manage the emotions of others , and make emotionally agile judgements on how to tackle certain situations .
It includes no-nonsense advice , practical exercises , and real-life case studies designed to help leaders with the challenges of their role — whether that ’ s motivating disengaged teams and raising performance or encouraging creativity and innovation .
The Leader ’ s Guide to Emotional Agility : How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results , Kerrie Fleming , FT Pearson 2016 , RRP £ 14.99
How to take the right risk
What is risk ? Is it a real danger or just an opportunity in disguise ? Can it be outmaneuvred or is it something to be embraced and worked with ?
Strategy is risky because it is dealing with an uncertain future — which means that strategists need to be effective at working with risk .
In a new book , Risky Strategy : Understanding Risk to Improve Strategic Decisions , Jamie MacAlister draws on lessons from Apple to Procter & Gamble , from Napoleon to Nelson , and from Roger Federer to Sir Alex Ferguson to provide a new and dynamic perspective on risk .
The book explores how and when to take the right risk and looks at what happens when the concepts of strategy and risk collide . It also considers how leaders combine analysis with intuition to take smart risks , what makes organizations better at dealing with risk , and what helps leaders to feel safer with it .
Risky Strategy : Understanding Risk to Improve Strategic Decisions , Jamie MacAlister , Bloomsbury 2016 , RRP £ 25.00
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