Management of specific areas

Reach New Heights as a MentorBroaden people's perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn't take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it-when you become a masterful mentor.While...

Can You Tell Learning Fact From Fiction?"Training should be tailored to individual learning styles." "We only use 10 percent of our brain." "Multitasking is as simple and efficient as flipping a switch." Some myths and superstitions have their fervent...

A timely update to a timeless model.is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practice, and you'll get an...

It's not enough to get a team to work, you need them to invest their hearts and minds. Managers are currently faced with the most uncertain environment in history. How can we lead our teams to create and seize opportunities? How do we navigate through...

Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start-the key to a...

When trainers use games, learners win big.As a trainer interested in game design, you know that games are more effective than lectures. You've seen firsthand how immersive games hold learners' interest, helping them explore new skills and experience...

Stop Doing Hair. Start Building an Empire!Learn the secrets that the world's top stylists use to turn their barbershops, hair salons, nail and brow art studios into incredible wealth-building machines! You'll learn strategies for properly marketing,...

"It helped me get three promotions." "Honest feedback and real conversations with compassion and care. . ." "Gave me the realization that I needed to start having conversations about where I wanted to go in my career. . ." "A great book from career...

Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.Leadership is Half the Story introduces the...

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce.Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organisations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fuelling harmful stereotypes and...

Find and Network with the Right ProfessionalsYou know it's smart to connect with over 500 million business professionals on LinkedIn, but you may not know how to do it without wasting tons of time and money. LinkedIn expert and trainer Ted Prodromou...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

Grow Your Business will provide you with all the tools and blueprints you need to take your business from startup to scale-up.You've sown the seeds, it's time for the fruits of your labor to start producing! With Grow Your Business, Eric Butow and the...

Design Learning Experiences, Not EventsLearning Experience Design Essentials explores how new instructional designers and those looking to build their skills and align their function to the business can blend content and context to elevate learning...

Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career.The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But you're ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your...

Show the value of virtual learning to demonstrate business impact., virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett teams with evaluation experts Jack and Patti Phillips and learning transfer authority Emma Weber to create a guidebook for TD practitioners to...

Go From Accidental to Intentional, by e-learning veteran Cammy Bean, covers nearly every aspect of the learning design process for those getting started or even for the experienced practitioner in need of new ideas. Many trainers and instructional...

Add Data and Analytics to Your TD ToolkitInstructional design pro Megan Torrance addresses the importance of instructional designers accessing and applying learning and performance data-from how to design learning experiences with data collection in mind...

"We humans make our lives painfully complex." Following the bestselling book, Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL's Way of Life, Thom Shea shares the process and method he developed over thirty years in the SEAL teams and business consulting to overcome chaos by...

The Center for Talent Innovation's new study, Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce, reveals how companies can ensure their veteran talent thrives in the corporate world. Veterans represent a highly desirable talent pool when...

Life is not what you get out of it . . . it's what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life's work, from resumes to salaries, are devoid of what matters most. This is why the work we do is often bad for our wellbeing, when it...

Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon...

It's All Your Fault! explains, in easy-to-understand terminology, behaviors of people who have personality disorders, particularly blaming, irrational, and impulsive behaviors. This is a growing problem-possibly effecting over 25 percent of the US...

Organizational resilience and adaptability have never beenmore important; however, few leaders are truly prepared to lead through crisis. Rise Up: Leadership Habits for Turbulent Times is acall to action for leaders to accept that many of their habits...

EXPERT IN THE FIELD: Carolyn Stern combines an academic foundation (she is a university professor) with practical hands-on experience to provide a to provide an encompassing system for improving ones leadership skill through understanding emotions. She...

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. This pattern has resulted in many of our society's greatest successes, but even more of its failures. Though the root cause is...

Performance management is changing. Adapt your approach along with it.For decades, performance management has been seen as an annual chore by managers and HR departments alike. But this process is changing, and there are ways to make it more effective at...

Everyone deserves to feel a sense of respect and belonging. And we all want our coworkers to feel safe, heard, and free to be their authentic selves at work. But being an inclusive colleague doesn't always come naturally.This book will teach you...

Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful - and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people.If you read...

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving...

From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth.From healthcare facilities to call centers, fulfillment centers...

The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, respond in the most effective way possible, and move forward. You can, too.The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will...

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity. We need Shared Sisterhood.Bias persists in organisations and society. Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn't been achieved...

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest...

The future is here. How is your organization responding?Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing has been clear - work will no longer be the same. Employees now expect...

Push forward diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice at your organization.The time is now to develop a company culture that seeks and celebrates difference, combats racism, and strives for equity. The HBR Diversity and Inclusion Collection...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change.You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of...

Lead Your Business Through the Covid-19 RecessionThe second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us-but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact?...

Blue Ocean Strategy, the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Rene Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation.Disruption dominates innovation theory...

Seize this moment to advance racial justice at your organisation.In the wake of widespread anti-racism demonstrations across the world, many companies have spoken out forcefully. They've made unprecedented commitments to equity and launched ad campaigns...

Named one of '22 new books...that you should consider reading before the year is out' by FortuneA research-based, practical guide for how to handle difficult people at work.Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with...

Connect with your team, even when you're far away.Virtual meetings. Video calls. Emails and chat messages. These technological conveniences can be helpful when you're working remotely. But the actual experience of getting your work done while remaining...

In this powerful book, happiness expert Jennifer Moss explains why burnout is so rampant - and provides simple, researched-based solutions for helping employees minimise stress and building happier workplaces.Research-based findings about the real causes...

Organisations are addicted to collaboration as the default mode of work and they assume it's good. It's not. Collaboration overload plagues us in ways that prevent us from being our best selves at work and in our lives. But there is an...

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving...

Move ahead in your career - without leaving your family behindWhat happens when you're no longer setting goals and chasing dreams that work for you alone? When the career choices you make have ripple effects on your family? Can you uproot your...

An all-in-one resource for every working mother and father.Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we've never had a trusted, go-to guide all our own-one that coaches us on how to do well at work, be...

If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout...