Books published by Libri Publishing

Passport toResultsis a handy, pocket-sized workbook which should be used alongside Influencing for Results in Organisations,to guide you through that process: developing your abilities, clarifying yourideas, choosing your strategies, connecting with the people you are influencing,and getting what you want.

This series addressesthe new Part B MRCS OSCE syllabus. Material is presented in question-answerformat, covering the most important topics. Book 1 covers the important aspectsof surgical radiology, applied surgical science, critical care, anatomy, surgicalpathology, operative surgery, surgical skills, principles of surgery andpatient safety.

A ground-breaking exploration of executive coaching,based on a wide range of real-life studies of coaching in action. Writtenby skilled and experienced practitioners, and showing what happens inside coachingrelationships, this book shows executive coaches how they can dramaticallyincrease the value they bring to organisations and individuals.

This book highlights the practice of residential design at a time whenaffordable housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, plannersand policy makers alike. It brings together world-leading architects withacademics from seven countries and teams of international students offeringthree perspectives on the problems of housing.

The authors (international consultants in their seventies)generously and intimately share their learnings on ageing. If you aregetting older-or know someone who is-this is a provocative, funny, andinsightful guide to living a lively and meaningful life as the years go by. Itoffers seven ways to lighten your life before you kick the bucket.

Thinking of buying a franchise, creating your own franchise, or franchising a product more effectively? Packed with real-life case studies and key insights from the owners and operators of successful franchise systems, this book is the essential contemporary guide for aspiring franchisees or ambitious franchisors.

It covers the social and political contexts of architecture and design in several countries. It shows how teachers and students from each of these countries are dealing with design as an integrated part of larger socio-political factors.

Closeness at a Distance is a groundbreaking approach to the challenges so many teams, and team leaders, face today. Virtual working is now a reality for most professionals, and the winners of tomorrow will be companies that proactively drive the performance of their virtual cooperations. Virtual leadership, project management at a distance, and networking are today's and tomorrow's critical success factors. So any leader needs to ask him or herself "Is your virtual collaboration as successful as it should be?" How to answer this question, and how to improve performance in this key area, is the focus of this book. It introduces readers to Virtual Performance Improvement (VPI(c)) as the gateway to solutions to all key challenges faced by international virtual teams, groups, and networks. The book supports leaders so they perform successfully and effectively in virtual global environments. It guides team leaders, project and network managers, members, and even whole organizations, to areas of potential improvement in virtual performance and will help them turn vital challenges into competitive advantages. The book gives new insights into how to assist global groups, teams, and networks to perform better, and links project management, organizational, and cultural issues with the world of communication technology. 'Enriched with numerous case studies and a storyline woven into the chapters, this book will be of immediate, practical help to anyone working with virtual teams and groups, or consulting, coaching, or training in such a context

For at least two decades, people have been working together virtually, their interactions enabled and mediated by communication technology; based on years of research, this book summarizes what it takes to lead effectively in the virtual space. Arguing that becoming an effective virtual leader requires a deeper level of reflection--including questioning one's sense of identity, relationships, trust, and power--this account offers valuable advice to those who want to improve their effectiveness as supervisors. This guide will interest HR professionals, consultants, managers, and virtual team members who want to become faster at developing and implementing strategies and cultivating learning and change globally.

One of the most significant recent trends in Higher Education has been the move from a focus on teaching to one on learning. But, as anyone who has ever run programmes or courses will recognise, both the physical geography and the ethos of the location have major impacts on the quality of the resulting learning experience. Hence the current interest in learning spaces - considered here as 'sites of interaction.' The fourteen chapters of this anthology, produced by the international Association Learning in Higher Education's well-tested and rigorous methodology, discuss the concept of learning spaces, the pedagogy of learning spaces, and the way learning spaces are changing. Learning Space Design indicates that the evolution of learning spaces is, and ought to be, a contested area which cannot be resolved just through a formal building commissioning process. It is important to make explicit the nexus between educational philosophy and architectural design of physical and/or virtual learning spaces, especially if the aim is to increase student agency, interaction, and collaboration. Learning Space Design puts the spotlight on an important, but often overlooked, dimension of teaching and learning processes in higher education. It is a rallying call for a mission to explore further the nature and purposes of learning spaces, and it should be essential reading for all those designing, delivering or evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. About the editors Lennie Scott-Webber is Director Education Environments of Steelcase Education Solutions at Steelcase Inc. in Grand Rapids, U.S.A. John Branch is Academic Director of the part-time MBA programmes and Lecturer of Marketing at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Russian, East European, & European Studies, both of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Paul Bartholomew is Director of Learning Innovation and Professional Practice at Aston University in Birmingham, England. Claus Nygaard is executive director of LiHE and executive director of cph: learning institute.

Rather than focus on the actions of the coach, this handbook places relationships - to one's self and to others - at the heart of the coaching activity. Beginning with an explanation of relational coaching, including its principles and practices, this account goes on to describe the evolution of the relational turn in executive coaching.