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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