Read, Discuss, Develop Book Clubs
The Center for Staff Learning & Professional Development invites you to join us as we read, discuss and develop ideas from a series of interesting and informative books about current management topics.
Once you have registered for one of our book club sessions, we will lend you the book from our library and lead the discussion . We can also arrange for you to facilitate the book clubs in your own department using our resources and materials.
Our 2007- 2008 inaugural book series includes:
Our Iceberg is Melting, written by John Kotter, Harvard Business School, and Holger Rathgeber, Becton Dickinson is for our first book club read for the fall of 2007. This New York Times bestseller is a must read for any professional who is dealing with change in the workplace.
The NO @#$%^ Rule, written by Robert Sutton, a professor of management science at Stanford, is that the modern workplace is beset with @#$%^(jerks)who deliberately make co-workers feel bad about themselves and who focus their aggression on the less powerful. Along with taking a look at the cost of this kind of behavior in the workplace, Sutton provides the reader with information on surviving an environment plaqued by such behavior and ways to assess if you are one of these "jerks" in the workplace.
The Invisible Employee by Gostick and Elton is a business fable about a group of people who work together on a mysterious island. The focus is on invisible employees defined as "smart people who keep their heads down and never do more than what is asked of them" and whose behavior ultimately undermines efforts to build outstanding organizations. The text is filled with information on how leaders can change this mindset and create workplaces filled with productive employees who feel noticed and valued!
In How Full is Your Bucket?, a grandfather-grandson team explores how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and Rath indicate that we have a bucket within each of us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise. They suggest that when we are negative toward others, we use a dipper to remove from their buckets and diminish their positive outlook. Treating others in a positive way fills their buckets and ours too! The authors illustrate how this principle works in business and management and in personal relationships too. They provide data associated with the Gallup Organization to support their premise.
Book club dates are posted on training.brown.edu and announced in Morning Mail.
Please contact clpd@brown.edu for further information.
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