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FriesenPress Through the Storm How to Lead When Things Go Bad 2017 Edition by G. Paul Isaak
Designed to equip leaders, supervisors, and managers in understanding and supporting those experiencing a personal crisis, Through the Storm offers invaluable and pragmatic leadership advice. Providing a practical guide to understanding trauma and the various distress reactions that are common responses of those whose lives have been turned upside down, the book applies the author's professional expertise as a Critical Incident Program Coordinator in an urban police service and draws on his personal success in managing life's rigors as a cancer survivor and as one who has overcome life-threatening explosions, the deaths of loved ones, and the murder of a close family member. Through the Storm provides readily applied suggestions and strategies on how to engage with individuals during what may be their darkest hour. Whether you are a leader wanting to do the right thing or an individual caught in the moments when "things go bad" and looking for a strategy to get to the other side, this book will be invaluable....