Resources

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The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching: 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets - edited by Howard Mogan, Phuil Harkins, and Marshall Goldsmith

Leadership coaching has become vitally important to today?s most successful businesses. The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching is a landmark resource that presents a variety of perspectives and best practices from today?s top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders, for now and into the future. Revealing core philosophies, critical capabilities, and the secrets of coaching success, this one–of–a–kind guide includes essays from fifty top coaches, including Ken Blanchard and Frances Hesselbein.

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change The Way You Lead Forever - Michael Bungay Stainer

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can wok less hard and have more impact.

Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how – by saying less and asking more – you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

The Coaching Manual: The Definitive Guide to the Process, Principles and Skills of Personal Coaching - Judith Starr

Translated around the world, and recommended reading on many coaching programmes this bestselling book is trusted globally as the definitive guide to coaching.

This carefully revised edition will guide you through the entire process from first meeting to when coaching ends, with methods, tips and techniques that simply work.

The Gold Guide (6th Edition)

This Reference Guide is for Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK and is applicable to all trainees (StRs) taking up appointments in specialty (including GP) training which commenced on or after 1 August 2007. The 6th edition published on 17th February 2016 replaces all previous editions of the Gold Guide with immediate effect.

You can visit the COPMED website to download a copy of this document or click on the resource link below.

The ROADS to success – a practical approach to career management for medical students, junior doctors

A collaberation from Elton, C. and Reid, J 'The Road to Success' can be a vital tool in choosing the right specialty which is a critical decision that all junior doctors face.

This is a carefully structured handbook to support both trainees and their supervisors througout the career planning process. This is a practical handbook packed with essential information, self-assessment including psychometric tests and insightful tips.

Towards an understanding of resilience and its relevance to medical training

Published in Medical Education 2012: 46: 349–356

This article explores the concept of resilience and its potential relevance to medicine. It also looks at the dimensions of resilience and its ethical importance for effective professional practice, and considers whether a focus on resilience might be useful in medical training.

UKFPO

For information on how to apply to the Foundation Programme, what to expect during your training, how assessments work, how to get the most out of your Foundation Learning Portfolio and what resources are available to help you decide on your future career.

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine - Danielle Ofri

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care.

• Sci59 - Specialty Choice Inventory

Sci59 stands for Specialty Choice Inventory. It is an online careers interest inventory designed to measure peoples’ preferences to the 59 most common specialties recognised by the GMC.