This new textbook has been written for the new CIPD postgraduate module Developing Skills for Business Leadership. It is also ideal for Masters- level Business students who are taking a module in professional development, career development or management skills. Selling Points It is the first postgraduate textbook to cover three key areas: managing yourself and others in the workplace; transferable managerial skills such as problem-solving; and postgraduate study skills such as critical thinking Maps onto the new CIPD Developing Skills for Business Leadership unit Edited by Gillian Watson (well-known author of Managing for Results) and written by a team of twelve experts on different skills, ensuring that students have access to the most authoritative content 12 expert contributors, each with their own area of specialist area ensuring an authoritative voice on a range of topics.Online resources For tutors PowerPoint slides Lecturer's guide Longer activities that could be used in a workshop context For students Examples of reflective practice and logbook developmentMarket: Students taking the new CIPD Developing Skills for Business Leadership Unit students onMA / MSc in HRM or MBA modules - professional development, personal development, career development, management skills

Gillian E Watson Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Programme Leader for MA International Management at the University of Sunderland Management experience at senior level in an International business environment Previously Programme Leader for MSc HRM and MSc HRD programmes Conducted management development courses in UK and overseas Previously CIPD National Examiner for Employee Development Stefanie C. Reissner Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Sunderland Runs the Sunderland postgraduate skills initiative, PALS Formerly Lecturer, School of Strategy and International Business, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England