Today's marketplace is fuelled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy.
Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line managers or customer service representatives, neurosurgeons or software programmers, city managers or home-improvement amateurs. They create, share, and apply knowledge within and across the boundaries of teams, business units, and even entire companies-providing a concrete path toward creating a true knowledge organization.
Skills and techniques from a master therapist on how to help clients connect to their lives in a spiritual manner. Therapy and spirituality? Many therapists are taught that these don't mix. Here readers will learn how spirituality and therapy are inextricably bound together. Bill OHanlon also shows how spirituality can be used to benefit the most challenging clients, even those with an aversion to religion. Combining practical methods with research evidence, this book will help therapists expand their clinical repertoire. More info
Basic Counselling Skills, a helpers manual is well set out and very easy to read. The author, Richard Nelson Jones, a British and Australian citizen is a leading international author whose books have been used to help train counsellors worldwide. This book is targeted to those who use counselling as part of their professional role rather than those who are accredited counsellors. This book offers basic or fundamental counselling skills - exactly as described in the title. The book would be most beneficial to those in the health and... More info
'Narrative therapy invites a fresh look at assumptions in the therapy culture, and on reading Martin Payne's account I instantly had a sense of being understood. I found this particularly refreshing, as so much that is written in the name of narrative therapy doesn't at all fit with my understanding of its philosophical, ethical and political considerations. He has succeeded in representing his own voice in this, which really makes for engaging reading and accessibility of these ideas' - Michael White. 'This is a fascinating and important book' -... More info
