Short spirtual stories for organisational and personal transformation by Peter Hawkins

84 amusing stories that will transform how you see your organisation and your own leadership.

"Wiser even than The Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy, far, far funnier than In Search of Excellence, so much thinner than The Harvard Business Review Encyclopedia of Corporate Strategy" - Professor Mike Pedler.

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By Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet.  Published by Open University Press.

This book, on which much of the material for our courses is based, explores the purposes, models and different forms of supervision in the helping and people professions.

The first edition (1989) was described as a 'ground-breaking' book in the development of supervision and supervisor training. The second edition came out in 2000 and the third edition in 2006.

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Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy - Supervision and Development 

This is a book about our profession which has all the right ingredients to help from a practical or philosophical point of view - July 2007. I read the book from cover to cover, but it’s just as useful to pull out the section in which you are interested and use the information.

You can read this book at a few different levels:

• As a novice who is seeking a thorough grounding in the main theory underpinning our profession.
• As a practitioner who is looking to improve their competence or capability in specific areas.
• As an experienced practitioner who is looking to increase their capacity to deliver change in ever more complex and ambiguous environments.

The book has a few dozen approaches and tools, many of which I’ve used with success on assignments. Several were new to me and I’m looking forward to integrating them into my personal tool bag.