Personnel and human resources management Books

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degreeMost people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to...

You may feel like an ordinary believer, but God has a knack of using ordinary people to accomplish His extraordinary purposes. Authentic Influencer encourages you to walk with Barnabas, learn from God, and shape the world for Jesus Christ— one life at...

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...

A curated collection of HBR's latest thinking for leaders and managers about the practices and policies that will make hybrid organizations successful.Curates the latest and most important thinking on organizational design and leadership competencies in...

Find a way to work that works for you.The 9-to-5 office routine no longer exists. Many employees have the option to work anywhere, any time. But how do you find the flexible arrangement that's right for you? And how do you manage a team when...

'What does a workplace utopia look like to you?'This is the question Dr. Ella F. Washington asks company leaders, and often she hears about an ideal vision of an organisation that values diversity and inclusion and wants employees to...

The pressure to 'be digital' has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and...

Bending Reality is the innovative process used by billionaires, tech leaders, and the world's most successful people to make the impossible... probable. Bending Reality is Victoria Song's innovative process used by billionaires, tech...

In Awaken Your Potential, leadership coach Chad Reyes becomes a type of virtual mentor to help people fulfill their maximum potential, to become leaders, and then to turn around and help others fulfill their own potential.Today's institutions are facing...

This book was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award 2022.What accounts for the lack of diversity in leadership positions?Looking carefully at how current leaders view the relationship between top tier management and diverse groups, Opening...

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame...

Pattern Breaks is a handbook for navigating the world of creative facilitation. It is for facilitators, trainers, educators, group leaders, and anyone who would like to bring more creativity out of their groups and out of themselves. It provides food for...

In Lead Boldly, peak performance coach Hugh Blane shares his three guiding principles for converting human potential into inspired performance. He does this by providing a detailed road map for transforming a leader's results at work and home in...

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos-using your smartphone. Whether you're a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don't need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful...

This turnkey guide helps you build a successful executive coaching framework and practice.The Executive Coaching Playbook offers experienced and newly minted executive coaches a complete framework for building your coaching skills and business with...

In the new world of hybrid work and AI, one thing is clear: the war for talent is over-and talent won.With sparsely populated offices and people working from wherever they are, and with AI emerging everywhere in business and dominating headlines, our...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world - a structural change in how and where people work and live. One thing we now know for certain: Nothing is going back to normal.How organisations adapt to this culture shock will determine...

Evaluation-oriented instructional design that delivers business results.Rethink how to design training instruction to meet bottom-line business goals. With his eight-step framework for measurement and evaluation-focused instructional design, Kristopher...

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...

How do today's leaders shift from playing it safe to playing for great?In a volatile and complex world roiled by a climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies like AI, hyper-individualized leadership models no longer make sense. To...

Improve the Impact of Your Facilitation, four master ATD facilitators open your eyes to the range of facilitation methods and techniques and help you find your authentic training style.Authors Carrie Addington, Jared Douglas, Nikki O'Keeffe, and Darryl...

Make DEI Training Foundational in Your OrganizationWhen done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on...

Ensure Your Instructional Design Stands Up to Learning Science Learning science is a professional imperative for instructional designers. In fact, instructional design is applied learning science. To create effective learning experiences that engage, we...

Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a good story. Stories are memorable, actionable, and emotional. We are constantly making sense of the world by forming stories, and that makes them perfect...

Tap Into the Power of Human ConnectionCreating a thriving organization where employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within...

Turn Your Know-How Into Someone Else's Know-How-ToEveryone-whether subject matter experts, proficient performers, managers, coaches, or co-workers-will need to transfer knowledge to others at some point in their life. And, often, that responsibility...

Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning ExperiencesWhen training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development...

Speak for YourselfDo you yearn for a book to disambiguate words and phrases commonly used in business settings, your workplace, and in life in general? Do you wish the kimono would open on idioms and clichs that stretch the bandwidth of understanding and...

Everything you need to know to get started as an adult learning professionalInstructing adults is dramatically different from teaching children, and the effectiveness of training programs is often dictated by how well they apply the principles of adult...

Your Microlearning Primer Microlearning. Is it a text message or a video? Does it need to be shorter than five minutes? Do you just "chunk" a longer course into smaller pieces? Find the answers to these and other questions in this concise, comprehensive,...

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...

There are more similarities than differences between how artists and scientists work. Both ask countless questions. Both search in earnest for answers. Both are dedicated to reaching the best results. Not so different from today's trainers, are...

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...

We live in an age of rapid change and instant communication. We also live in a Culture of Blame and Disrespect, creating a need to manage our responses to high-conflict people. A BIFF Response can be applied in any communication anywhere online, social...

"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...

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...

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...