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Jason Stevens is a Trainer, OD Consultant and owner of the Award Winning Training Company Ican Development Ltd

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This book is free to download and be used freely as long as it is referenced to Jason Stevens, Director, Ican Development Ltd along with the website www.icangrowpeople.com

ContentsIntroduction 1

Great Managers 10

Culture & Climate 20

Plant Personality 31

Your Vision 43

Strategy 51

Change 56

Tools for the Job 66

Watering 75

The Right Plants & Seeds 81

The Induction Greenhouse 90

Getting around the Garden 99

TAG for Results! 106

Performance Management 116

Feeding 133

GrowtivateTM 141

Prize Blooms, Vegetables and why a Fish sticks! 148

Free Cuttings & Busy Bees! 154

Developing Teamwork through cross pollination 171

And Finally - Goodbye and Glossary 188

Ican Grow Peoplefor blooming great results

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A totally fresh way to understand and grasp the essentials of Management and Leadership. Our gardening metaphor really sticks (like mud) and is changing the way people sow the seeds of success with their people.

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I have spent many years in Training and Development, helping, guiding and supporting managers to transform themselves into better managers.

I have trained, facilitated, mentored and coached. I have in some cases manipulated and bribed people along the way, which definitely is not good practice. But what else can you do when someone just doesn’t get what managing people is all about?

There seems to be a strong link (for me) between a great gardener and a great manager. So, rather than “sell” management as a concept and get bogged down in theoretical management gobbledygook, I focused on practical, pragmatic steps to becoming a more effective manager, in a fun and light way without missing or skimming over powerful messages.

Sowing Your Seeds!How will this book Grow on you?

That was until I linked effective People Management with effective Gardening Management.

I have never known a more stimulating, engaging and memorable way to get managers to understand their role and the impact they have on people to achieve results and business success. I Can Grow People™ is a great place to start if you want to make management a simple theory or process to understand.

I Can Grow People™ GERMINATED!

This can be achieved by relating the skills, knowledge and attitudes of a great gardener, who nurtures and grows plants with a great manager who grows and nurtures their people / employees to achieve results.

After facilitating the concept of growing people with managers, clients, Directors, HR teams and professional bodies, I soon began to realise that everyone gets the gardening v management metaphor.

This is more than can be said for a lot of the dowdy, dusty and boring management books found on training library bookshelves.

People began to ask me to talk more about this learning concept and so I decided to write my own book.

To be fair, the gardening metaphor has been around for years – this is nothing new at all and a quick internet search will dig up someone with a view on how to grow real people like plants.

However, with I Can Grow People™ you will have a huge and varied selection of ideas and approaches to work from.

And, because it is such a creative and interesting way to think about people management you will come up with some wonderful ideas and management concepts of your own too.

Just “cut and paste” the metaphor to create your own Management garden

The metaphor can be taken and used as far as your imagination and energy will allow you to go.

The book is divided into small chunks with plenty of visual stimulation intended to help your mind wander and give you space to make sense of things where it needs to.

But you won’t miss out on the important aspects of managing people effectively. You will cover in various places throughout the book;

Performance Management•Communication•Personality Types•Training and Development•Management Styles•Team Development•

Reward and Recognition•Change Management•Recruitment & Selection•Motivation•Setting Objectives•Personal Effectiveness•

All the essentials are in here

This book has been designed in a way so as not to give you all the answers but to feed your imagination on how you or your people and your business / organisation can make a big difference if you get your hands dirty and get stuck into some simple steps to growing the ideal people garden.

My advice would be to simply read, pause, ponder and self-reflect. Put the words and pictures into context in your world and then modify and change what you do and how you do it to bring a part or aspect of your people garden to life.

Throughout the book I have tried to encourage you to answer questions and make notes that will help you, or help you to help others in becoming more effective.If you would like to immerse yourself further and get bedded deeper into the story and philosophy of I Can Grow People™, then join me or one of my team on the various Ican Grow People Seminars and Development Events.

Visit www.icangrowpeople.com for more details.

Prepare to be Green Fingered from a Management perspective!

Enjoy the book!

AcknowledgementsThis book is dedicated to my family who have supported my weird and wonderful ideas over the years. To have such faith in someone, even when you don’t quite understand what they do, I salute you. For the times when work has come first, I thank you for your patience.

I would also like to thank Barry for always believing in my entrepreneurial spirit, or is it stupidity?

Many thanks to John for providing me with the space to grow my business and be successful. Also, Jon Knox who helped with the design and transformed a PowerPoint Dandelion into a book-like Orchid.

Finally, a big thanks to all of you who bought this book – you don’t know how much I appreciate it, but when we meet, I will buy the Latte’s.