Book description
Over the past 15 years Nancy Kline has identified 10 behaviours that
form a system called a Thinking Environment, a model of human
interaction that dramatically improves the way people think, and thus
the way they work and live. The power of effective listening is
recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Kline
describes how we can achieve this, and presents a step-by-step guide
that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more
productive meetings, solve business problems or build stronger
relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities.
Nancy Kline is President of Time To Think, an international leadership
development and coaching company. She is also a published author and
public speaker. Nancy created and pioneered the development of the
theory and process called The Thinking Environment®. This model allows
people to turn their teams, organisations and relationships into
Thinking Environments in which people at every level can think for
themselves, with rigour, imagination and courage. The process increases
the quality of thinking in, and thus of concrete results from, all human
interactions, both in pairs and in groups, and decreases the amount of
time it takes to achieve them. Time To Think began in 1984 and grew out
of Nancy's consulting and teaching work near Washington, DC, where she
had served as a Founding Director of The Thornton Friends School for
twelve years and as Director of The Leadership Institute for six years.
She is a Fellow of Ashridge College, UK. Nancy was born and raised in
New Mexico and lives in England with her husband Christopher Spence.
