Peter Dean

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Smart strategies for managing workplace bullies out of your life and business More than one in four Americans deals with an on-the-job bully. These office sociopaths don’t just make individuals miserable. Their poison spreads throughout the company, damaging overall morale, creativity, productivity, and profitability. It doesn’t have to be this way. Leading consultants Peter Dean and Molly Shepard have helped vanquish workplace bullying and now share their proven methods with you. In The Bully-Proof Workplace, they provide vital insight into the four major types of bullies: The Belier | Weapons of choice: slander, deception, and gossipThe Blocker | Weapons of choice: negativity and inflexibility The Braggart | Weapons of choice: narcissism and a sense of superiorityThe Brute | Weapons of choice: aggression and intimidation These bullies may operate differently, but they all have one thing in common: a desperate need for control based on deep-seated fear and insecurity. This invaluable survival guide equips individuals with strategies, tips, and scripts for managing interactions with bullies. Managers learn how to identify bullying, deal with it swiftly, and introduce zero tolerance for such behavior. And executives gain the information they need to create a corporate policy regarding bullying. We spend about 60 percent of our waking moments at work. Spending that much time under the thumb of a bully and dealing with the negative business effects of bad behavior is simply unacceptable. Whether you’re a victim of bullying or a business leader tasked with building a collaborative corporate culture, The Bully-Free Workplace provides the critical insight and practical tools you need to successfully combat this ubiquitous but rarely addressed business challenge and ensure that bullies behave—or leave—so you and everyone else can get on with your work.

Businesses today have a vital need to create self-directed employees - individuals who can positively and progressively fill leadership roles at every level of their organizations. But where will all these leaders come from? Award-winning leadership practitioner Dr. Peter Dean asserts that wherever interaction exists, so does the opportunity for leadership. Employees who share positive intentions, creative ideas, and laudable goals or who express insights that allow others to work beyond the status quo are, according to Dean, "everyday, everywhere leaders" who can and should be tapped due to their remarkable potential." Leadership for Everyone" reveals how you can become such an influencer, mentor, and teacher, regardless of your title or position. Dean explains why leaders exist at all levels of the company - from the shop floor to the boardroom - and gives you a proven framework for asserting yourself as a leader in any situation. Whether you communicate with coworkers, managers, suppliers, or customers, Dean shows you how to practice leadership with every interaction, providing tools and advice you can use immediately to expand your influence and improve your leadership abilities. Based on Dean's popular "L. E. A. D. E. R. S. Method[trademark]", which he developed during his many years of leadership study and experience, "Leadership for Everyone" reveals seven critical skills you must possess to perform as a true leader: listen to learn; empathize with emotions; attend to aspirations; diagnose and detail; engage for good ends; respond with respectfulness; and speak with specificity. Dean presents guidelines for honing these skills through everyday practice in your actions and conversations. This will enable you to have greater influence in all the spheres of your life - both at work and at home - and prepare you to accept and attract more responsibility. Dean also offers you solutions and tactics to reinforce the effectiveness and productivity of your organization. The "L. E. A. D. E. R. S. Method[trademark]" takes courage, honesty, the ability to keep your own ego needs at bay - and persistent commitment. By meeting these challenges, "Leadership for Everyone" is guaranteed to lead you to success. It offers an innovative way to enhance leadership skills in any situation; Regardless of rank, title, or station in life, anyone can be a leader. That's the assertion of Dr. Peter Dean, award-winning leadership practitioner. Today's organizations demand self-directed employees at every level - leaders that can work for them - and this book holds the key to developing and enhancing leadership abilities in any situation. Based on Dean's popular, proven "L. E. A. D. E. R. S. Method[trademark]", "Leadership for Everyone" gives you the techniques and tools to master seven essential skills that will enable you to become an "everyday, everywhere" leader. You'll see how to seize the potential in any and every interaction to lead, positively and authentically. You'll influence each situation in which you're involved as you reinforce organizational effectiveness and productivity. And you'll share positive ideas and goals while working beyond the status quo. This book helps you: become a proactive contributor to any effort or team; harness the power of interpersonal relationships; confront, analyze, and work through any situation; create a mentoring, non-threatening environment for colleagues; and, fulfill your company's strategic vision.

Production Management takes you through the process of making shows happen from the point of view of the production manager's; the person responsible for everything on stage that is not an actor. It describes different types of productions, from small-scale amateur to international opera; the role, qualities and working life of backstage teams and finally, theatre administration. Production Management -Making Shows Happen - A Practical Guide

In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development-learning, performance, and change-to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.