The Warwick Leadership Programme
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The aim of the programme is to enhance the leadership capability of heads of academic departments and senior managers in the University. It will offer staff with significant management responsibilities a nine-month development programme tailored to the needs of each individual. "The programme gave me renewed confidence in my own leadership ability" "The 1 to 1 coaching sessions were extremely helpful" Please send nominations via email to Bob Thomson at bob.thomson@warwick.ac.uk Contents
Growing People
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
Bob Thomson’s second book is a practical guide to coaching people using a predominantly non-directive approach. It explores how a coach or manager can help others to think through their situation and find their own way forward, one which reflects the reality and constraints of their situation. The book which is available from Chandos publishing, contains chapters on:
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Some of the ideas that are central to the Warwick Leadership Programme can be found in Bob Thomson's book, Growing People. The basis of the approach is that learning how to do something new requires real experience, together with reflection to make sense of that experience.
