he network of the Wunderlin Company stretches far and wide. We depend on the good work done in our fields of expertise to keep our skills finely tuned. Here are some of our favorite resources.

General
The Harvard Business Review offers its many useful articles, books, and videos. http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/home.html

The Mining Company sifts through the Internet and finds the best of the best. This is their human resources home page. http://humanresources.miningco.com/

Doug Silsbee, one of the TWC partners, has a fabulous retreat center in the heart of the western North Carolina mountains. We highly recommend this location for your next training or retreat. http://bendofivylodge.com/

Here's a simple exercise that will help you develop a high-level snapshot of your life currently. It only takes a few minutes and can be remarkably insightful. Then you can redraw the circles for the life you desire and begin initiating changes to get there! Click on circles_of_life.pdf to learn how to draw your "Circles of Life."

Appreciative Inquiry/Positive Psychology
Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: The First in a Series of AI Workbooks for Leaders of Change (Paperback) by David L., Ph.D. Cooperrider (Editor), Diana, Ph.D. Whitney (Editor), Jacqueline M. Stavros (Editor)

Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change (Paperback) by David L. Cooperrider (Editor), Jr. Sorensen Peter F. (Editor), Diana Whitney (Editor), Therese F Yaeger (Editor)

Appreciative Team Building : Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback) by Jay Cherney, Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Ron Fry

Changing Times: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE the Positive. Building on the best in people, situations and organizations.

Encyclopedia of Positive Questions, Volume I: Using AI to Bring Out the Best in Your Organization (Paperback) by Diana L. Whitney, David L. Cooperrider, Brian S. Kaplin, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Diana Whitney, et al David Cooperrider

How Full is Your Bucket? By Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. This slim, upbeat book, offers positive strategies for work and life. Organized around a simple theory of a dipper and bucket, the book teaches you how to increase the positive moments in your life - while reducing the negative

The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Group Change (Paperback) by James D. Ludema, Diana Whitney, Bernard J. Mohr, Thomas J. Griffin (Editor)

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change (Paperback) by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, David Cooperrider

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. This book outlines easy-to-follow techniques to help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts and build a life of rewards and lasting happiness.

Lessons From the Field: Applying Appreciative Inquiry (Revised Edition) (Paperback) by Sue Annis Hammond, Cathy Royal (Editor)

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. This book helps individuals identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistently, excellent performance.

The Nonprofits' Guide to the Power of Appreciative Inquiry, Carolyn J. Miller, Cristina R. Aguilar, Linda Maslowski, Donna McDaniel, Michael J. Mantel

Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, No. 100 (Paperback) by Hallie Preskill (Editor), Anne T. Coghlan (Editor)

Assessments
Changing Times: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE the Positive. Build on the best in people, situations and organizations.

I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You by Roger R. Pearman and Sarah C. Albritton. The subtitles of this book says it all: Secrets to How We Can Be So Alike When We're So Different AND The Real Meaning of the Sixteen (MBTI®) Personality Types.

Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen. This book offers insight into why others behave the way they do, and why you are the person you are. Based on MBTI®.

Please Understand Me: Character & Temperament Types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates. Based on MBTI®.

The Art of Speedreading People by Paul D Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. Shows how to identify personalities and how to use this information to communicate effectively and achieve faster results.

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. The inside flap of the book's jacket includes a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This web-based assessment analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes.

Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman. The Western cultures esteem analytical skills measured by IQ tests: but there is clearly more to success and happiness, even in technological societies, than IQ alone. Goleman has written one of the best books on the nature and importance of other kinds of intelligence besides our perhaps overly beloved IQ.

The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace by Carry Cherniss and Daniel Goleman. The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace is an engaging attempt to connect fundamental research on emotions and human performance to day-to-day workplace challenges.

The Emotional Intelligent Quickbook: Everything you need to know by Dr. Travis Bradberry and Dr. Jean Greaves. This book introduces a highly important skill for personal and professional success--and it is excellent.

From now on With Passion: A Guide to Emotional Intelligence by Christine Mockler Casper.

Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Unlike IQ, emotional intelligence can keep growing--it continues to develop with life experiences. Understanding and raising your emotional intelligence is essential to your success and leadership potential.

Executive Coaching
Find out more about one of our favorite assessment tools, a 360-degree feedback instrument developed by Susan Wilkes, an organizational psychologist. Link to http://www.vcu.edu/cppweb/oppt/360feedback.html

volume.two - Get the Right People on the Bus/Becoming a Masterful Coach Getting the right team together, then taking it to the right place

Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart by Mary Beth O’Neill. An outline approach on how to coach leaders.

The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Culture - Revised Edition by Thomas G. Crane. A process for communicating performance feedback through Emotional Intelligence.

Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together by Robert Hargrove. Offers strategies for transformation to a leader, coach, and mentor. Also offers tools to bring thought changes in organizations.

The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Managers, Executives, Consultants, and HR by Frederic M. Hudson. A guide to building, developing, and strengthening skills needed to transform and empower organizations.

The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development edited by McCauley, Moxley, and Van Velsor. An explanation of elements of leadership development.

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglass Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Step-by-step approach on how to have tough conversations with success.

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Methods for negotiating disputes.

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow. Why people behave the way they do and how to transform their thinking.

The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge. The blueprints of organizational change, people expanding, and how to get the results.

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Using Emotional Intelligence concepts to change leadership styles as the situation demands.

The Art of Speedreading People by Paul D Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. Shows how to identify personalities and how to use this information to communicate effectively and achieve faster results.

The Coaching Handbook: An Action Kit for Trainers and Managers by Sara Thorpe and Jackie Clifford. How to harness the techniques of coaching professionals.

Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove. Learn how to empower and transform leaders and improve their ability to produce results.

Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose by John Whitmore. Necessary evolution that awaits business and the world of coaching.

Hope is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale by Rick Page. Combines a common sense approach with breakthrough selling strategies.

The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business and Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard with Byron Laurson. A 28 step system to re-orient your approach to success.

Stop Managing, Start Coaching! How Performance Coaching Can Enhance Commitment and Improve Productivity by Jerry W. Gilley and Nathaniel W. Boughton. Demonstrates how managers can balance mulitiple rolls to improve productivity.

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life by Laura Whitworth, Henry House, Phil Sandahl, and Henry Kimsey-House. A view of coaching with examples, exercises, tips, and a toolkit.

Coaching-Evoking Excellence in Others by James Flaherty. Moves coaches to understand the human as an individual.

Executive Coaching: Practices + Perspectives edited by Catherine Fitzgerald and Jennifer Garvey Berger. Details various approaches to executive coaching.

Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn edited by Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, and Alyssa Freas. How and why coaching works and how leaders can best use the coaching process.

Foundations for Change - download a copy of the Executive Coaching Handbook:
http://www.theexecutivecoachingforum.com/

The Transparency Edge by Elizabeth Pagano

Facilitation
Visit this site to get ideas, tools, and approaches for infusing your work with creativity! http://www.directedcreativity.com/

The International Association of Facilitators is a tremendous resource for facilitators of all experience levels. Their recent conference was terrific. Visit this site to see the conference proceedings and to learn more about IAF. http://iaf-world.org/

If you are interested in games and game design in learning about simulations, look at the NASAGA site! http://www.nasaga.org/l

If you'd like to learn more about Appreciative Inquiry, a model which creates positive, generative, sustainable change by identifying and expanding the "positive core" of issues, visit: http://appreciativeinquiry.cwru.edu/. The site is devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.

Facilitating with Ease: A Step-By-Step Guidebook with Customizable Worksheets on CD-ROM by Ingrid Bens. Contains tips, tools, and wisdom for facilitation. Includes a CD-ROM with customizable worksheets to fit your needs.

The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwarz. Guides groups to realizing their creative and problem-solving potential.

The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge. The blueprints of organizational change, people expanding, and how to get results.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, Charlotte Roberts and Art Kleiner. How to bring the five learning disciplines to life in your organization.

Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff. Principles, techniques, and examples to plan the future.

Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change by Barbara Benedict Bunker and Billie T. Alban. An overview of 12 methods of large-group interventions.

The GE Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution by Robert Slater. Provides techniques and tools to focus every worker on progress and growth. Outlines a roadmap for removing boundaries to success.

volume.six - Tips for Leading Efficient, Effective, and Enjoyable Meetings Meetings can be effective, efficient, and enjoyable!

The GE Work-Out: How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy and Attacking Organizational Problems by Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, and Ron Ashkenas. The principles of the work-out program and tools to customize and implement work-out for your organization.

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. How to manage your energy better on and off the job.

The Six Sigma Handbook, Revised and Expanded: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels by Thomas Pyzdek. A description of the statistical tools and problem-solving techniques that comprise six sigma and how to use them.

Organizational Change
Leading Change by John P. Kotter. Eight-step process to achieving company goals and understanding where people derail from them.

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen. How to go beyond getting the message across to change behavior.

The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change by Jeanie Daniel Duck. A tool for coping with changes of business and life.

Best Practices in Organization Development and Change edited by Louis Carter, David Giber, and Marshall Goldsmith. Resources for ideas and strategies for successful organization and human resource programs.

Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination by Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. A guide to Appreciative Inquiry for leaders.

volume.three - What is Working Around Here?/Positive Image; Positive Energy; Positive Action By actively searching for "what is working," you'll discover creative solutions that accelerate results, and inspire your employees.

Managing Change and Transition by Harvard Business School Press. Advice and tools for controlling stress and sharing information during transition.

Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence by Peter Schwartz. A look at forces that are reshaping our world and how to plan ahead.

Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout by Eric Abrahamson. A new approach to change by reconfiguring the culture, structures, and networks the company already has in place.

Leading Change by John P. Kotter. An eight step process to achieve change goals and understanding how people derail from the objectives.

The Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen. How to go beyond getting the message across to changing behavior.

Learning to Change: A Guide for Organizational Change Agents by Leon De Caluwe and Hans Vermaak. Overview of organizational change theories and practices and how to implement them.

Peer Learning
TEC International, www.teconline.com

Leadership Network, www.leadershiplouisville.org

Greater Louisville, Inc.'s Roundtables, www.greaterlouisville.com

YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), www.ypo.org

GE Women's Network, www.gecareers.com

Make Up Your Mind by Ann Graham Ehringer, Ph.D. This book takes apart the process of entrepreneurial decision-making and analyzes what separates the good from the bad.

Can Peer Groups Supply the Expertise You Lack?, Jeff Bailey, staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal.

How to Find a CEO Peer Group That's Worth Your Time - and Money, by Donna Fenn, Inc. Magazine.

Share and Tell, by Pam Withers, BCBusiness

Strategic Planning
Built to Last: Successful Havits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. A look at why American corporations last.

20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World by Hugh Courtney. This book provides tools and solutions for strategic decision making processes.

Michael E. Porter on Competition by Michael E. Porter. An examination of the international economy.

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter. The how, what, and why of competitive strategy.

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Strategy. A collection of books on corporate strategy.

The Balanced Scorecard : Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. A management system that channels employee talents towards achieving strategic goals.

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Lessons in Mastering Change - From the Principles Jack Welch is Using to Revolutionize GE by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman. Study of Jack Welch's principles on how anyone can succeed.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins. Researchers discover the key determinants of great companies and how they got there.

Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them by Bill Davidson. Describes how breakthrough companies separate themselves from their rivals with constant business innovation.

Training
Training in Interpersonal Skills: Tips for Managing People at Work by Stephen P. Robbins and Phillip L. Hunsaker.

Skills for New Managers by Morey Stettner. Discusses how to succeed and flourish as a manager using this short, highly focused model for effective management. Includes topics such as hiring, criticism and discipline, and leadership.

Management Skills for New Managers by Carol W. Ellis. An introduction to everything you need to make the jump to management smoothly and be effective right from your first day. This practical guide helps you:* define your role: What does a manager do, and how do you create the environment that will help those things get done?* communicate effectively: Interact with your staff and with your own manager, using the right approach and most appropriate methods* manage staff performance: Identify challenges, set objectives, and give your people what they need to do their jobs well. Plus you'll learn how to delegate for maximum productivity, motivate individuals and teams, and much more. Filled with practical techniques and specific action plans for applying the approaches in your new role.

GE Work-Out
The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking Organizational Problems by Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, Ron Ashkenas. Famous "Work-Out" change-management tool explained by the people who helped develop it.