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Effective Evaluation of Spoken Communication: A checklist for evaluating speaker performance (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Neill, Conor; Mueck, Florian; Leggett, Brian O'ConnorTechnical Note DPON-92-PBKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementAn important part of powerful communication is developing your own ability to continuously improve as a communicator. Immediate specific feedback is necessary if you are to become a truly great speaker. Effective evaluation is an important part. As you become more skilled in evaluating others, you will become better able to ask for feedback on your own speaking.Starting at €8.20
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Some Basic Personality Concepts (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Ribera Azorín, AlbertoTechnical Note DPON-65-PBLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note brings together some fundamental notions of the psychological and psychopathological aspects of the personality. The concepts mentioned are the following: personality, temperament and character. Personality features or disorders, and a "continuum" through ideal, normal and pathological features.Starting at €8.20
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Effectiveness and Leadership (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein Martínez, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-50-PBLeadership and People ManagementAn examination and discussion of the relationship between leadership and effectiveness, starting out from the assumption that leadership and results are bound up together. In the first place it examines the obstacles, principally related to the style of individual management, which a director must overcome to do their job effectively and in order to focus on how to maximize personal and executive effectiveness, and concludes with reflections on w...Starting at €8.20
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The basis of coaching: Reflections of a coach (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein, Guido; Pereira J.; Pin Arboledas, José RamónTechnical Note DPON-57-PBCorporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementThis note is based on the considerable experience of a coaching professional and introduces a powerful personal advisory tool for improving performance in management posts. It is intended to be clear, useful and succinct: it does not cover every detail and provides no statistical evidence, yet it should serve as a practical introduction to coaching.Starting at €8.20
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Self-Management: Self-Knowledge, Self-Control and Self-Esteem (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Ribera Azorín, AlbertoTechnical Note DPON-16-PBLeadership and People ManagementThis note addresses the growing interest in self-management training. It argues that the foundation on which self-management is built is self-knowledge; the tool used to acquire it is self-control; and the lever used to promote it (which must be used with caution) is self-esteem. The note concludes by suggesting that courses at business schools should included the study of philosophical anthropology on their curriculumsStarting at €8.20
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The Roots of Leadership (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein Martínez, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-109-PBInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn this note we approach leadership, first, from the point of view of the myths that obscure the reality. We then look at the characteristics of people who have followers, given that leadership becomes a solitary exercise if it has no impact on other people. Second, we illustrate those characteristics through the story of the Persian king Cyrus, as depicted by Xenophon in his Cyropedia, a work which the world's foremost management scholar, Peter ...Starting at €8.20
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Trust in Boss-Subordinate Relationships (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Elola, Aitziber; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-12-PBLeadership and People ManagementThis note explains how trust between bosses and subordinates is gained and lost. It annalyzes the personal factors and key forms of behaviour that result in trust. It also explains the impact of trust on bosses' power and authority.Starting at €8.20
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Challenges for New Managers (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein Martínez, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-60-PBLeadership and People ManagementBecoming a manager usually means achieving a professional and social position that brings with it certain rights and privileges other jobs cannot offer. The position gives money and rank, but more importantly it also entails obligations and responsibilities. It is important to understand that these obligations and responsibilities are the essential part of management, while money and rank are just the derived benefits. As in other professional ma...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Management (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-53-PBLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of conflict management. We all know from experience that conflict is a fact of life. And it is not always a bad thing. On the contrary, it can be very positive and stimulating, provided it is kept within certain limits. There are two dimensions to any conflict: rational and emotional. Problems arise when emotional harmony is disrupted. Conflict is a dynamic phenomenon and goes through...Starting at €8.20
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The Non-verbal Aspects of Speeches (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Leggett, Brian O'ConnorTechnical Note DPON-36-PBLeadership and People ManagementStudies have found that people who communicate non-verbally through active movement tend to be rated as warm, more casual, agreeable and energetic, while those who remain still are seen as logical, cold and analytic. Our audience's interpretation of our non-verbal communication is not only very important but also the largest element of the communication process. Non-verbal communication is all forms of communication other than by the use of words...Starting at €8.20