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What does the project stakeholder value?
Project management may be about control, consistency and structure but it is very important not to forget empathy and reflection in the process. Stakeholder management may be one of the newer mantras...
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Why big conversations matter
Anthony Landale (Editor of Gower Handbook of Training and Development and co-author of The Fast Facilitator) has a way of making the difficult challenges of leadership so much more understandable. In...
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What Underpins Your Life and Work?
I throughly recommend Anita Mountain and Chris Davidson’s blog on Transactional Analysis. I am something of a fan of TA and have found it the single most influential technique for helping me improve my...
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Relationship Awareness Conference 2011, 26-30 September, CA, USA
The Relationship Awareness Conference 2011 is an opportunity for SDI practitioners to interact and share ways they are using Relationship Awareness Theory to make a positive impact on people’s lives....
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sociagility – the latest word in social media
Niall Cook (author of Enterprise 2.0 and The Business Marketeer’s Guide to Social Media) has moved to a new company, from Hill and Knowlton. The new consultancy is called Sociagility and, as the name...
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Interview with Gower Author MaryLee Sachs
Following on from her Keynote Address and Masterclass at the 2011 PRIA Conference – PR Directions, MaryLee Sachs, author of the Changing MO of the CMO, was interviewed by author of the PR Warrior Blog,...
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Managing your employer brand in emerging markets seminar
On Tuesday, May 15th 2012, People in Business are hosting a free seminar which features an overview of their findings, drawn from their project-based experience and a number of two day employer brand...
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Communication during acquision
Having recently been involved in the due diligence phase of an acquisition process Phil Jones discusses his experiences with communication during this uncertain time. Read about it in his April 9th...
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Five Gower & Ashgate titles in Top 40 Books for Women Entrepreneurs
We were very pleased to see four Gower and one Ashgate book in Evan Carmichael’s Top 40 books for women entrepreneurs. Carmichael runs EvanCarmichael.com, one of the world’s most popular websites for...
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Gower author presents award at the National Business Awards
On 12th November, over 1200 of the UK’s most influential business leaders gathered for the 2013 National Business Awards http://www.nationalbusinessawards.co.uk/ at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London....
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6 Business Tips from our Expert Governance and Leadership Authors
With Gower’s Governance and Leadership line covering an extensive range of topics within the Business and Management industry, we have asked six of our authors to each provide a tip for better...
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Leaders’ behaviour sends powerful signals – Ian Muir
One of the advantages of spending over thirty years in corporate life is perspective. That’s the perspective of seeing leaders in action across many countries around the world. It’s also the...
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Four Steps to Project Mutiny
Disagreement, sometimes even conflict, is a natural part of healthy project working and something that a project manager needs to be comfortable with. However, as this extract from A Practical Guide to...
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Can experience be communicated?
In a few years’ time, organisations are going to be faced with the retirement of a large number of baby boomers – their most senior staff. This leaves them with the conundrum: to what extent can...
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Honesty, transparency, authenticity … or abject failure?
Perhaps it’s pushing it to suggest a direct line correlation between the way you communicate in projects and the chances of success but, as the following article published by Ann Pilkington and Kevin...
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‘Less Is More: Making Patient-Centered Digital Communication a Reality’ by...
Healthcare consumers have changed their wants, needs, and expectations. The organizations working in the healthcare industry that understand this implicitly and then deliver to the expectations, needs,...
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Writing it down only makes things worse!
I am struck, when I read this extract from Communicating Upwards for Effect, (Lynda Bourne’s great chapter in Darren Dalcher’s collected volume, Advances in Project Management) on the basic flaw in...
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