The following is a list of professional development resources that you might find interesting:

Organisations

Three UK organisations provide professional development information and links to courses that you may want to attend:

• The Chartered Management Institute’s training and development pages offer resources linked to becoming a chartered manager
• The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development offers resources on management development including research papers, courses and media articles
• The Institute of Directors has courses that lead to diploma or chartered status

Books

The following management books are popular now for professional development. Click on the names to review them at Amazon.co.uk:

• Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose by Sir John Whitmore - click here
  
• Effective Coaching: Lessons from the Coaches' Coach by Myles Downey - click here
  
• Quick Team-building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes by Brian Cole Miller - click here
  

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