Developing Resilience: The Key to Professional Success - Softcover

Fiona Westwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848764324 ISBN 13: 9781848764323

Publisher: Matador, 2010

Synopsis

Developing Resilience is designed to help good professionals who want to do the best job they can for their clients and care about the quality of the services they deliver. It provides them with practical support to get through what is sometimes the hard slog of professional practice. It details what actions they need to take at each stage of their career to build their personal resilience. It offers leaders and senior managers help with creating and maintaining a culture that allows good professionals to self-manage, enabling them to concentrate their efforts on dealing with underperformers. It also allows people to get the maximum value out of work-based learning and develop the long-term resilience of their organisations. KEY BENEFITS · Provides direct and practical help for good professionals to develop their personal resilience set in the context of their everyday practice · Allows people to minimise the impact of having other people unfairly critical of them and maximise the positive of their work-based learning · Enables people to be clear about their career choices and take control of their progression from novice to master · Details how leaders and senior managers can create a culture of high performance and build a resilient organisation · Explains the crucial role that educators and professional bodies play in the development of professional character Fiona Westwood worked as a solicitor for twenty years before setting up Westwood Associates in 1994, a management and training consultancy specialising in strategic and leadership development for professional service organisations. This book builds on her two earlier books, Achieving Best Practice and Accelerated Best Practice and is an essential read for all professionals, whatever their discipline and career stage, leaders and HR managers of professional service organisations, professional bodies and educators.

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About the Author:

Fiona Westwood worked as a solicitor for twenty years before setting up her management and training consultancy specialising in the professional sector. She has a reputation for excellence and value based on her direct pragmatic approach. Her earlier two books are essential reading for leaders of professional organisations seeking to implement successful change.

About this edition

• Publisher: Matador
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848764324
• ISBN 13: 9781848764323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246