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American Management Association Free Webcasts
Change Management
The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders
(pdf)
Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Five Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change
Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate - Harvard Business Review
How to Communicate Clearly During Organizational Change - Harvard Business Review
Leaders are Getting Better at Change Management - But Not at Transformation
Change Management and Leadership Development Have to Mesh
Change Management Meets Social Media
LinkedIn Learning: Change Management Foundations
Book: Reinvention: Accelerating Change in the Age of Disruption
Book: Experiential Learning: Change Behavior to Improve Performance
Conflict Management
How to Bust the Office Bully - Eight Tactics for Explaining Workplace Abuse to Decision-Makers (pdf)
Conflict is a Place of Possibility
Book: Adult-Bullying--A Nasty Piece of Work by Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik PhD
The 3 Secrets to Conflict Resolution
Book: Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job
Book: HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict
Book: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Book: Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
Book: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
Book: The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No
Effective Communication
Book: To Sell is Human: the Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Dan Pink
How to Speak so that People Want to Listen
10 Ways to have a Better Conversation
5 Habits of Highly Effective Communicators
Book: Let the Story do the Work: The Art of Story-telling for Business Success
Effective Communication Begins with a First Impression
Book: 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work - Anywhere!
LinkedIn Learning: Effective Communication
Communication is the Magic Ingredient to Everything in Our Life
Leadership Development
Book: Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education by Jon McGee
Book: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Book: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
Book: Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
Book: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
Book: Your Leadership Edge by Ed O'Malley
Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
Book: A Light in the Darkness: Leadership Development for the Unknown by JC Glick and Sarah Ngu
6 Things Every Mentor Should Do
Book: Working Deeply: Transforming Lives Through Transformational Coaching
The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common
Book: Leadership Development - A Blueprint for Building Your Leadership
Book: Becoming a Can-Do Leader
Book: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Book: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Motivation and Engagement
Book: The Five Disfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Book: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
Book: Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans
Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Book: Predictably Irrational: the Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
What Great Managers Do to Engage Employees
Motivation or Engagement? What's the Difference?
Book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
LinkedIn Learning: Motivating and Engaging Others
Book: Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED Books)
Time Management
Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Book: Off Balance On Purpose: Embrace Uncertainty and Create a Life You Love by Dan Thurmon
LinkedIn Learning: Time Management Tips Weekly
Own Your Day: How Sales Leaders Master Time Management
Time Management for the Time-Challenged
Time Management: A Realistic Approach
Book: 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
Microaggressions
Constantine, M. G.(2007). Racial Microaggressions Against African American Clients in Cross-Racial Counseling Relationships. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 54, 1-16.
Matteson, A. V., & Moradi, B. (2005). Examining the structure of the Schedule of Sexist Events: Replication and extension. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 29, 47–57.
Moradi, B., Dirks, D., & Matteson, A. V. (2005). Roles of sexual objectification experiences and internalization of standards of beauty in eating disorders symptomology: A test and extension of objectification theory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52, 420–428.
Nadal, K. L. (2009). Preventing racial, ethnic, gender, sexual minority, disability, and religious microaggressions: Recommendations for promoting positive mental health. Prevention in Counseling Psychology: Theory, Research, Practice & Training, 2, 22–27.
Nadal, K. L. (2011). The racial and ethnic microaggressions scale (REMS): Construction, reliability, and validity. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 58, 470–480. doi:10.1037/a0025193
Sue, D.W. (ed.) (2010). Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation Hoboken,NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sue, D. W. (Ed.). (2010). Microaggressions and marginality: Manifestation, dynamics and impacts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sue, D.W, & Sue, D. (2013). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice. Sixth Edition. Hoboken,NJ: Wiley.
Sue, D., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., & Holder, A. M., Nadal, K.L., Esquilin, M. Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life Implications for Clinical Practice. The American Psychologist, 62, 271-286.
The Trouble with Microaggressions
Book: Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation