Links

Here are some links to individuals and organizations that provide additional information on the 360º Feedback process and theories of communication and behavior that have significant relevance to personal and professional development. I will be updating this list regularly.

• Assessment Plus helps organizations with unique corporate cultures develop effective, successful leaders. They achieve this with customized assessment-based tools and the commitment to transform information into insight, action and results.
• Center for Creative Leadership offers what no one else can: an exclusive focus on leadership education and research and unparalleled expertise in solving the leadership challenges of individuals and organizations everywhere. They equip clients around the world with the skills and insight to achieve more than people thought possible through creative leadership.
• Crucial Skills The Crucial Skills Blog is the official blog of the Crucial Skills Newsletter—an award-winning, weekly e-newsletter from the authors of the New York Times bestselling books: Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer.
• Laura Davis Laura’s focus as an Executive Leadership Coach, Speaker, Trainer/Facilitator, and Author is to assist individuals, teams, and organizations in developing the self-awareness and acquiring the skills to thrive in the new world of work.
• Susan M. Heathfield has covered Human Resources for About.com since 2000. She is a Human Resources expert, a management and organization development consultant who specializes in human resources issues and in management development to create forward-thinking workplaces. The mission of her site is to provide accurate, thoughtful, forward-looking information for forward-thinking people who wish to stretch their imagination about how people can relate with coworkers and their workplace.
• Leadership Research Institute (LRI) is a global consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational development. They partner with leaders across a wide variety of industries, helping those leaders to guide and transform their organizations. The LRI approach combines time-tested models of leadership and organizational development with custom methods, allowing them to produce unique, tailored, and insightful solutions to clients’ concerns and requirements. They achieve outcomes in leadership development and colleague satisfaction that empirical research has shown to produce significant positive impact on business performance and profitability. Research suggests that this approach consistently results in enhanced performance at the individual, group, and organizational level.
• Priceless Professional Development Suzie Price, Managing Principal, brings facilitation skills, business expertise and communication science to each individual and group development engagement. She has studied and become uniquely qualified (and certified) to guide clients by using her rich understanding of behaviors, workplace motivation, position benchmarking and facilitation. Her vision is: A world of employees who wake up eager, and her mission is: Development resources to help leaders get and stay inspired.
• Respect International is an advocacy, humanitarian, and educational non-profit organization, created out of the need of persons with psychiatric challenges to be treated with respect, to experience hope, and to be provided with the basic needs to live.
• Rightpath Consulting believes that the development of core competencies for managers is the most effective way to improve the functionality of a business. Successful companies invest resources and time in the personal and professional development of managers and are able to show a corollary between excellent managers and a profitable bottom line. Developing and refreshing new skill sets in the areas of communication, coaching, team development, collaboration and accountability will enhance the success of any enterprise.
• Self-Determination Theory is a theory of motivation concerned with supporting our natural or intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways. The theory was initially developed by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan at the University of Rochester. This website presents a brief overview of SDT and provides resources that address important issues such as human needs, values, intrinsic motivation, development, motivation across cultures, individual differences, and psychological well-being.
• Turknett Leadership Group specializes in the assessment and development of executive leadership and organization effectiveness. Our goal is to help good managers become great leaders.
• VitalSmarts is an innovator in corporate training and organizational performance, and helps teams and organizations achieve the results they care about most. VitalSmarts is home to multiple training offerings, including Crucial Conversations®, Crucial Confrontations™, and Influencer Training™.