Related Sites
The VitalSmarts web site is the official site for information, training and materials related to the books Crucial Conversations® and Crucial Confrontations™ by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. I recommend the free weekly e-newsletter. The VitalSmarts representative in SE Michigan is Doug Finton of Vital Skills International, LC www.vitalskillsintl.com.
I am involved in coordinating and support the delivery of Crucial Confrontations™ training by a group of peer leaders from union and management positions in a client organization. The subtitle of the Crucial Confrontations™ book "Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations and bad behavior" conveys the emphasis on accountability that attracted my client to the training. The 16 hour program includes video examples, a variety of skill-building exercises and a participant workbook in addition to the book Crucial Confrontations™.
The Institute is dedicated
to building a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces.
Their work is based on the major findings of more than 20 years of research
- that trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic
of the best workplaces. They offer services and tools to help companies build
trust and become more effective organizations.
This web site is a great resource for exploring each of the key points made in the book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins. The articles, audio clips (including a series on applying the concepts to not-for-profit organizations) and book references to be found there are well worth spending time with.
A movement in organizational studies that draws on path-breaking work in the organizational and social sciences. It focuses on the dynamics that lead to developing human strength, producing resilience and restoration, fostering vitality, and cultivating extraordinary individuals, units and organizations. Positive Organizational Scholarship is based on the premise that understanding how to enable human excellence in organizations will unlock potential, reveal possibilities, and facilitate a more positive course of human and organizational welfare.
Servant-leadership is a practical philosophy that supports people who choose to serve first, and then to lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions. Greenleaf’s writings contain the "first among equals" organizational structure.
Integral Institute is dedicated to the proposition that partial and piecemeal approaches to complex problems are ineffective. Whether addressing individual and personal issues of meaning and transformation, or increasingly complex social problems such as war, hunger, disease, over-population, housing, ecology, and education, partial and fragmented approaches need to be replaced by solutions that are more comprehensive, systematic, encompassing—and integral.
Human Dynamics is the term given to a new way of understanding human functioning developed by Sandra Seagal, PhD, and her associates. It goes beneath what is measured by instruments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, values basic human differences, and has a strong developmental component.
The Society for Organizational Learning is a global learning community dedicated to discovering, integrating and implementing theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.
Open Book Management Online is a source of information about the business philosophy that John Case has researched and made accessible. The core concept is "opening the books" to employees and teaching them to understand financial and other important measures of organizational success.