Management Skills for Effective Planners by Dory Reeves

Management Skills for Effective Planners by Dory Reeves

In this practical and lively guide for early career planners, Dory Reeves sets out the key skills necessary to thrive in the modern-day work environment. Offering expert advice and in-depth critical analysis of the field, she further develops the reader’s understanding of the specific personal and interpersonal attributes required to become a confident and creative professional planner.

Throughout the book, chapters use a wide variety of work-related situations that will help planning students and practitioners to think on their feet, and navigate their way up the career ladder. They explain how the benefits of networking and selecting an appropriate mentor can help in understanding, and working with, the structure and culture of a professional planning organization. At the heart of the book is the encouragement of self-reflection, as a way of appreciating the relevant workplace skills already developed through the ‘Lifewide learning experience’.  End-of-chapter pedagogical features – including web-links, activities and a ‘final takeaway’ – help to build on this. Developed from extensive research into the responses of planners and their managers to internationally-relevant questions surrounding planning, and through the substantial experience of the author in the field, readers will be best-placed to maximize effectiveness and job-satisfaction within the planning vocation.

Currently Professor of Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Dory Reeves has worked in the planning sector as an academic and practitioner for over 30 years. She has been chair of the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee at the Royal Town Planning Institute, UK, and she managed her own consultancy specialising in gender, equality and sustainability issues between 2003 and 2008.

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ISBN 13	9781137277008
ISBN 10	1137277009
Title	Management Skills for Effective Planners
Author	Dory Reeves
Series	Planning Environment Cities
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2015-11-24
Number of pages	288
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