Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork, 1st ed. 2016 Person-Centered Innovations

This accessible, highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels. Informed by neuroscience, psychology, as well as leadership science, it explains how integrating and properly balancing two key focal points of management?the tasks at hand and the concerns of others and self?can facilitate decision-making, partnering with diverse colleagues, and handling of crises and conflicts. Case examples, a self-test, friendly calls for reflection, and practical exercises provide readers with varied opportunities to assess, support, and evoke their readiness to apply these real-world concepts to their own style and preferences. Together, these chapters demonstrate the best outcomes of collaborative communication: greater effectiveness, deeper empathy with improved emotional fulfillment, and lasting positive change.

Included in the coverage:

·         As a manager, can I be human? Using the two-agenda approach for more effective?and humane?management.

·         Being and becoming a person-centered leader and manager in a crisis environment.

·         Methods for transforming communication: dialogue.

·         Open Case: A new setting for problem-solving in teams.

·         Integrating the two agendas in agile management.

As a skill-building resource, Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork offers particular value:

·         executives, decision makers and organizational developers

·         instructors and students of courses on effective communication, social and professional skills, human resources, communication and digital media, leadership, teamwork, and related subjects.

Dr. Renate Motschnig is a professor of Computer Science and the head of the Research Group CSLEARN – Educational Technologies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Since her studies in the ‘80s, she has been conducting research on the multiple ways in which understanding and significant learning happen, both in education and through life experience. Renate Motschnig has held positions at the University of Technology, Vienna; the RWTH Aachen in Germany; the University of Toronto, Canada; the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic; and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.  Renate is an author/co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed, scientific articles; three books on person-centered communication; and a co-editor of two recent books with Springer on Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Person-Centered Approach. She participated in numerous international events based on the Person-Centered Approach and is applying the resulting insights in proposing and leading major international research projects in the field of constructive communication,  teamwork and web-technology.  Currently, she is determined to foster a style in management and higher education that is based on person-centered attitudes, our co-actualizing potential, and thoughtful support by web-based technology. She appreciates synergies between presence and distance, cognition and feeling/meaning, and a multitude of disciplines and cultures.

David Ryback, Ph.D., ABPP is an adviser to corporate presidents and trains executives and managers on the advantages of using Emotional Intelligence to create better and more successful companies. His programs and books have been seen and read throughout the world. He is the author of Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work: Successful Leadership is More Than IQ, and three other books. He is an internationally recognized authority on emotional and social intelligence in schools and workplace and remains at

Smooth integration of business challenges with a person-centered value base

Supports significant learning by complementing knowledge inputs with reflections, practical cases, a test, and incentives for practicing acquired skills

Transparent structure and several pedagogical features aid comprehensibility and aim at the short attention span typical of managers/executives

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras