POWER
UP YOUR MIND: learn faster, work smarter
By Bill Lucas
Pub: Nicholas Brealey, 2001, ISBN 1-85788-275-X £14.99 [£18.57
inc p&p])
An eclectic mixture of bright ideas for the busy manager interested
in their own learning. Useful stuff about switching on, tuning
in and the importance of being in a learning state. Sections cover
remembering, resilience, harnessing your creativity and learning
at work. Review
Mentoring
by Reg Hamilton
Pub: Industrial Society 1993 £8.95 ISBN 1 85835 046 8
This helpful little book is a step by step guide to being a good
mentor. It describes the differences between the role of manager
and mentor, and the skills needed to be an effective mentor. It
looks at different approaches, both formal and informal, and defines
the essence of mentoring as "a way of helping another understand
more fully, and learn more comprehensively from, their day to
day experience" and stresses that it is most successful when the
interviews are confidential.
Postive
Management - Assertiveness for Managers
by Paddy O'Brien
Pub Nicholas Brealey 1992 £12.99 ISBN 1 85788 008 0
A practical management guide written in an accessible style, by
an experienced trainer and consultant who has arts organisations
among her clients. Part One explains what assertiveness is and
how to do it, and then there is an Assertiveness Workshop, which
can be done alone, with a partner, or adapted for use in staff
training. Part Two explores specific areas of management concern,
and shows how assertiveness can be applied in these settings.
Chapters include: meetings, leadership, coping with criticism,
and management at high tension, including necessary confrontations,
and giving difficult news.
A Manager's
Guide to Self Development
by Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne and Tom Boydell
Pub: McGraw Hill New Edition 2001 Price£19.99 [£24.38
inc p&p] ISBN 0077098307
Treat yourself to this one, and it could change your life... A
practical workbook to help you sort personal goals, career plan,
it also offers a wide variety of interesting ideas for management
practice. Challenging and thought provoking. Highly recommended.
Review
The Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People - Powerful Lessons
in Personal Change
by Stephen Covey
Pub: Simon & Schuster 1992 £10.99 ISBN 0 684 85839 8
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an
act, but a habit." This is Aristotle, quoted by Stephen Covey.
Paradigms and principles - vision, leadership and communications,
management, co-operation - it is all in here. A very powerful
book that represents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred
approach to solving personal and professional problems. A world-leading
best-seller at airports everywhere! AMA
101 ways
to develop your people, without really trying! - A Manager's
Guide to work based learning
by Peter Honey
Pub: Peter Honey Publications 2nd reprint 1998 £16.95 ISBN
0 9508444 9 7 How to weave self-development and learning into
everyday work. Great fun - an alphabetical numbered set of ideas
for practical activities from the obvious to the unlikely - something
for everyone here. Recommended.
Managing
Yourself: How to develop and sustain your skills, action, health
and identity at work
by Mike Pedler and Tom Boydell
Pub: Lemos Crane 1999 £12.99
A welcome and very up to date new edition of this best seller.
This book is for managers and people who want to become managers
- people who combine both doing and thinking. Starting from the
notion that before you manage others effectively, you need to
manage yourself effectively, the book aims to get you into shape
- "to be fit, whole, balanced, readya nd able to tackle new challenges
and opportunities". Chapters cover models of self-management;
action; knowing, valuing and being yourself; followed by managing
yourself and your skills; your health; working with others; and
managing yourself within the organisation. Lots of useful ideas
and practical exercises. A real treat.
Learning
Log: a way to enhance learning from experience
by Peter Honey
Pub: Peter Honey Publications 2000 £6.50
A slim little booklet that gives a useful introduction to learning
theory and enthuses about learning from everyday experience. It
then provides a structured journal to record and reflect on your
experiences and the learning that they contain. Review
Rate Your
Skills as a Manager: an assessment profile
Ed by Michael G Crisp
Pub: Kogan Page 1994 £7.99
A useful little book that invites you to assess your management
skills in key competence areas including planning, delegating,
maintaining control, counselling and coaching, recruiting, team
building, negotiating and managing changes.
Concise
Guide to the Learning Organisation
By Mike Pedler & Aspinwall
Pub: Lemos & Crane 1998 £12.99 ISBN
1898001423
Having defined the learning organisation as one 'that facilitates
the learning of all its members and consciously transforms itself
and its context' , the book sets out to show how to release unrealised
potential in people and organisations. It offers practical help,
tools and encouragement. Grounded in organisational and learning
theory, it tackles the question 'How can organisations learn?'
very successfully and offers re-assuring case studies and plenty
of practical activities. This is management theory at its best
- well-written, accessible and easily translated into action.
Action
Learning for Managers
by Mike Pedler
Pub: Lemos Crane 1996 £7.99 ISBN 1 898001 28 6
Small and compact, and very practical in its approach, this book
explains the how and why of action learning sets. They are shown
to be a valuable method of problem solving and also provide support
and development for individuals in a management role. Checklists,
diagrams and questionnaires included.
ABC of
Action Learning - Empowering managers to act and learn from
action
By Reg Revans
Pub: Lemos & Crane £12.99 1998 ISBN 1 898001421
Reg Revans is the creator of action learning and this book starts
with the characteristic assumptions of action learning, including
the learning equation L=P+Q and other concepts such as 'problems
require insightful questions', 'learning involves doing' and 'the
risk imperative'. There are then sections on essential logistics
on running action learning programmes, the characteristics of
the manager, the influence of top management, and the philosophy
of action learning. An extremely clear, well-written book with
endless common-sense and perspective observation.
Out of
Our Minds - Learning to Be Creative
By Ken Robinson
Pub: Capstone 2001 £15.99 ISBN 1-84112-125-8 Review
Attitudes
to Learning '98
ed. Toby Greany
Pub Campaign for Learning 1998 £8.00 ISBN 0 901469327
This is the summary report of a MORI State of the Nation survey
and is mostly tables and summaries of the data from the survey.
It looks at who is involved in learning and who is excluded, and
covers why we learn, where we learn, how we learn, and barriers
to learning. There is useful information here for anyone designing
and promoting learning activities. (See also Understanding Barriers
to Learning which builds on this material.).
For Life:
A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century
ed. Peter Maxted
Pub: Campaign for Learning £9.95 1996 ISBN 0901469262
An interesting collection of essays written by key people in education
and training. They cover a wide range from pre-school to octogenarians,
individuals to organisations, with plenty of thought provoking
material. Useful background for Lifelong Learning and related
policies and debates.
From the
Ivory Tower... to the Street: Putting learning theory
into practice
ed. Peter Maxted
Pub: Campaign for Learning 1996 £9.95 1996 ISBN 1857410041
A real gem - it starts with all the most useful bits of learning
theory introduced in clear language and well-presented on the
page with good diagrams where needed. It goes on to cover the
latest ideas on learner centred approaches, active learners, work
based learning, conditions for learning, whole brain learning,
whole person learning - all these are explained as useful concepts
for use in practice. A wonderful book - essential reading for
anyone interested in how learning works, and/or involved in designing
and promoting learning (with adults or young people).
Learning
Local Authorities: A survey of local authority commitment to
learning
by Bill Lucas, Toby Greany & Suzanne Gammon
Pub: Campaign for Learning 1999 £9.95 ISBN 1903107024
The results of the first ever survey of how local authorities
are investing in the learning of their employees and creating
a local learning culture through promotion. Well-presented information,
with a summary and headline findings, mini case studies of best
practice, and well-designed tables of figures. An appendix gives
a summary of Learning Local Authority Pilot Projects.
Understanding
Barriers to Learning: A guide to research and current thinking
by Peter Maxted
Pub: Campaign for Learning 1999 £12.95 ISBN 1857410343
A well-structured and clearly written practitioner's guide to
the findings of recent research on barriers that prevent people
from learning. It identifies 3 categories of barrier - cultural,
structural and personal, and covers both young people and adults,
in formal education and a wide range of areas of learning.
There is some very useful and stimulating material here, which
should be of great use to those promoting and/or designing learning
opportunities, or those simply interested in the current state
of Britain in relation to the aim of becoming a Learning Society.
Make It
Happen! Your Personal Learning Action Plan
Pub: Campaign for Learning 1996 £5 ISBN 1903107083
A slim A4 booklet with good layout and line drawings, 24 pages
(including some of just line drawings) with boxes to be completed
by the individual. Useful guidance notes at each stage with worked
examples. This is aimed at learners generally and covers
work and non-work related learning, and at all levels. It does
consider how you like to learn, and what has helped or hindered.
The emphasis is on planning and recording. Review
Take Yourself
to the Top
By Berman Fortgang
Pub: Harper Collins £8.99
Becoming
Yourself
by Paddy O'Brien
Pub Azure 2002 ISBN 9 781902 694191 £7.99 [£10.56
inc p&p]
Review
Soul Purpose
By Jackee Holder
Pub Piatkus 1999 ISBN 0 7499 1961 2 £12.99
[£16.47 inc p&p]
Review
The Learning
Styles Questionnaire: 80 item version
By Peter Honey & Alan Mumford
Pub Peter Honey ISBN 1 902899 07 5 £6.50 [£9.46
inc p&p]
This gives an introduction to the classic Kolb learning cycle,
and Honey and Mumford learning styles of activist, pragmatist,
reflector and theorist. It then provides a questionnaire to complete
and score to give you a picture of your own learning styles and
preferences. There is guidance on how to choose learning to suit
your dominant learning style, and also how to strengthen your
under-developed learning styles to make you an all-round learner.
Personal
Development Plans
By Peter Honey
Pub Peter Honey 2001 ISBN 1 902899 16 4 £6.50 [£9.34
inc p&p]
The introduction makes the case for why think ahead about learning
(for example from attending a course or conference) and why record
the outcomes, and gives useful pointers for being realistic about
plans. This is short and all over by page 8, then there's a sample
filled in plan with a few notes, then pages 14 - 35 are 10 sets
of a 2 page layout of Personal Development Plan with 5 boxes to
fill in and Review of Plan with 4 boxes to fill in. Good if you
want a structured notebook with an interesting introduction.
AM 98 Directory
- Arts Management Courses and programmes in higher and further
education
Pub: Arts Training Network 2nd edition 1998 free
The most recent, comprehensive guide to arts management courses
and programmes currently available in the further and higher education
sectors in the UK and Irish Republic. Essential reference for
anyone working in education and training, careers advisory services,
libraries, art resource centres, local authority arts departments
and Regional Arts Boards. Includes updated information on course
structure and content, fees, application procedures, assessment
methods, and new sections on access for disabled applicants, research
and placement opportunities and student progression. It covers:
courses in further and continuing education, HND / HNC, Degree
courses, and Postgraduate courses.
Writing
at University: A Guide for Students by Phyllis Crème &
Mary R. Lea
Pub: Open University 2002 £11.99 [£14.95 inc p&p]
