Jean Latting, V. Jean Ramsey

Reframing Change

How to Deal with Workplace Dynamics, Influence Others, and Bring People Together to Initiate Positive Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A highly practical guide to help leaders make intentional choices and draw on their assets, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to influence others, bridge differences, and initiate positive change. Reframing Change: How to Deal with Workplace Dynamics, Influence Others, and Bring People Together to Initiate Positive Change is based on the premise that if people act with integrity and learn to develop positive workplace relationships, a ripple effect can engender similar changes in the organization as a whole. Of extraordinary value to leaders, middle managers, and management students, it is a fresh and practical how-to manual for putting new ways of thinking to work in an organizational setting-one that backs its advice with results from a rapidly growing body of rigorous social science research. Organized around a series of essential skills, Reframing Change shows readers how to test assumptions about others, clear negative emotions and augment positive ones, build effective relationships, bridge cultural differences with people, deal with difficult situations, and initiate change in work environments. This advice is driven home with the stories of real people in real situations that explain key underlying principles, with a single storyline running through each chapter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780313381249
• ISBN-10: 0313381240
• Artikelnr.: 27134369

Autorenporträt

Jean Kantambu Latting, V. Jean Ramsey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Matt's Story: An Introduction to Conscious Change Plan of
the Book Why This Book? 2 Testing Assumptions Mental Models: Short-cuts to
Perception Being in the Answer Making Up Stories Being in the Question
Choosing to Test Assumptions Retraining Neural Pathways Building Positive
Emotions 3 Clearing Emotions Emotions and Feelings The Emotionally Flooded
Manager The Myth of Suppressed Emotions Preventing Self-fulfilling
Prophecies Clearing Emotions: The Process What Results Can You Expect?
Other Sources of Help Building Positive Emotions 4 Building Effective
Relationships Powerful Listening Inquiry Openness Giving Feedback
Receiving Feedback Seeking Feedback What If the Other Person Really Is the
Problem? 5 Bridging Differences Dominants and Nondominants Dominance
Dynamics Dominants' Blind Spots Acute Awareness of Nondominant Status
Dominance Dynamics at the Organizational Level From Guilt to Learning and
Contribution Bridging Differences: Antidotes to Dominance Dynamics 6
Conscious Use of Self Get Your Emotional Attachments Out of the Way Accept
Responsibility for Your Own Contribution Maintain Integrity Focus on the
Other Person's Strengths Adopt a Learning Orientation Seek to Understand
Others' Perspectives Recognize Your Own Power and Use It Responsibly 7
Initiating Workplace Change Steps for Initiating Change Moving Forward: A
Sequence of Small Wins 8 Matt's Story Redux Focusing on Strengths Being in
the Question Building Relationships and Bridging Differences Seeing
Situational Factors, Not Just Individuals Clearing Emotions Changing
Workplace Dynamics and Relationships through Changing Oneself Allowing the
Unexpected to Emerge Conclusion: Sustaining Hope Appendix: Principles for
Conscious Change Index