Glenn Devey - The Managers Guide to Employee Feedback

Glenn Devey currently works as a management consultant building on an industrial career spanning almost 30 years. After beginning his career in the Telecoms industry, he moved into the Automotive industry where he spent 17 years working in Engineering Management leading small and large teams of engineers working on complex new products. He resigned his corporate position in 2007 to work freelance as a trainer, coach, and consultant following a passion for personal and professional development. Since then, his career has taken him across both the public and private sector working to train the next generation of new managers and also working as an executive coach to experienced and senior leaders in business. Glenn holds recognized qualifications in coaching, mentoring, training, NLP, Six Sigma, and at the time of writing, is studying for an MBA. He has filed a successful patent, holds a Second Dan Black Belt in Karate, and also plays electric bass with a local Blues band.

You can join Glenn and the growing Feedback community here https://www.facebook.com/GuideToGivingFeedback or you can connect with Glenn personally at http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenndevey

I'd like to thank the following people who have inspired me to write this book: Sandra Goddard, my first coach, who really stretched my thinking. Peter Hill, for his teaching and supervision work with me as a developing coach. Mike Hurley, my mentor, who took me under his wing and taught me about coaching and the coaching industry.

Ellen Bothwick, my first NLP trainer, who saw something within me and gave me the opportunity to work within the industry. David Shephard, Ralph Watson, and David Smallwood, who are all fantastic NLP trainers with outstanding feedback skills.

Finally, my two beautiful daughters, Annabelle and Imogen, who have taught me more about human behavior than I sometimes wanted to know.

Kath Akoslovski has over 28 years' experience of working as a senior manager with a diverse range of organizations across the UK. She is also a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), accredited coach, and trainer.

Kath established Bridge2succeed Ltd. 15 years ago and is very successful in developing work relationships at a senior decision-making level to build long term business partnerships. She operates as a key driver of organizational change and development through people, systems, and processes. Through her natural ability to develop rapport quickly with people at all levels, she is able to achieve results by gaining the collaboration of staff. As an interim manager, she has been successful in transforming areas of deficit and poor performance into successful productive happy work areas.

Kath is passionate about developing people to their full potential through coaching teams and individuals. She believes that everyone has a 'gift' / natural talent and through effective communications, nurturing and support will bring this to the fore. The long term benefits to the individual and organization is invaluable. For more information about Kath, visit www.bridge2succeed.co.uk and www.mindfit.org.uk.

James Border started his career as an engineer in the Aerospace industry before moving into Automotive, where he formed the opinion that to have a greater influence on the finished product required a move into project management. A move to the power industry gave him the opportunity to manage diverse global teams and therefore led to the development of team-oriented skills. So, being invited to contribute to this book about providing feedback was a natural and relevant progression.