WHO’S READING WHAT
Maestro
A Suprising Story About Leading by Listening
By Roger Nierenberg (Portfolio, 2009)
Leadership is something that can be learned. However, the most respected leaders are not
textbook cases but those who wield
the necessary traits and knowledge
with a very personal sense of purpose.
By using the metaphor of a conductor and his orchestra, the author
reveals important details, from
interpersonal skills, individual effort
to benefit the group, group dynamics
that celebrate the individual, and the
role that listening (both physically
and intuitively) plays in creating the
most successful results.
The Four
Conversations
Daily Communication
That Gets Results
By Jeffrey Ford and Laurie Ford
(Berrett-Koehler, 2009)
At the core of management is the practiced skill of communication. The Fords demonstrate how to get maximum results from four kinds of
communications that everyone uses to get things done:
initiative conversations introducing something new;
understanding conversations to help people relate to
ideas or processes; performance conversations requesting
specific actions; and closure conversations that recognize achievements and signal completion of work. They
believe more performance conversations (asking for
promises) and less understanding conversations (are you
okay with all of this?) are needed in today’s workplace.
NEW BOOK RELEASES!
BOOK SIGNING
Monday, March 8, 11: 30 a.m. - 12: 30 p.m.
NASPA Annual Conference
in the NASPA Bookstore
Enough is Enough: A Student Affairs Perspective on Preparedness and Response to a Campus Shooting Brian O. Hemphill and Brandi Hephner LaBanc, Editors NASPA Member Price: $24.75 This book provides guidance on how to be proactive in preventing violence, and be prepared to provide a comprehensive response to a crisis. It presents first-hand accounts and experienced counsel from professionals who have lived through a violent incident, and continue to deal with its aftermath. They cover violence, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion, in an integrated way, and offer a comprehensive
plan to create a campuswide system for
collecting information about students at risk
for self-harm or violence toward others.
BOOK SIGNING
Tuesday, March 9, 12: 30 - 1: 30 p.m.
NASPA Annual Conference
in the NASPA Bookstore
More Than Listening: A Casebook for Using Counseling Skills in Student Affairs Work Ruth Harper, Nona L. Wilson, and Associates NASPA Member Price: $39.95 Written for those student affairs practitioners with limited educational or experiential backgrounds in counseling or mental health services, this book provides a model for how both student development and counseling theories can inform and enhance student affairs practice. The book presents a series of case studies based on composites of situations typically handled by student affairs professionals. Each scenario is followed by two theory-based responses: one drawing on student development theories and student
affairs practice; and the other grounded
in counseling theory and suggesting or
modeling practical helping skills.
