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CheerLEADERship: Strategies to Build and Support Human-Centric Workplaces for the Future
Stefanie Adams
CheerLEADERship aims to help leaders and managers create more human-centric, supportive, and high-performing workplaces by adopting a leadership style inspired by the principles of cheerleading. The book provides practical strategies to build trust, foster connection, and inspire teams to reach new heights. The author, Stefanie Adams, teaches these same leadership principles in her free leadership development courses for nonprofits in her community.
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The Feedback Blueprint: Unlocking the Power of Constructive Insights
Tenia Davis PhD
My book, The Feedback Blueprint: Unlocking the Power of Constructive Insights, empowers leaders to create a positive and inclusive work culture by transforming how they deliver and receive feedback. This book goes beyond traditional feedback methods by introducing constructive insights—a unique approach that fosters continuous improvement, innovation, and growth. By providing leaders with practical tools and techniques, the book helps them build stronger teams, enhance communication, and cultivate an environment where everyone feels valued and heard. It not only equips readers with the skills to fine-tune their feedback practices but also inspires them to lead with empathy and inclusivity, driving both personal and organizational success.
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39 Ways to Make Training Stick
Chris Fenning
39 Ways to Make Training Stick helps trainers make their training more effective.
It helps businesses get more value and ROI from their training budgets.
It helps trainees remember and apply what they learn - making their training efforts more effective.
Most people forget 90% of what they learn within 24 hours. This book drastically reduces that number.
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The Compassion Advantage: How Top Leaders Build More Humanizing Workplaces
Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD
In an era marked by unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, and trauma, The Compassion Advantage guides leaders seeking to navigate these turbulent times. This book offers more than just inspiration; it provides practical, science-backed, actionable tools and real-world examples that demonstrate how compassionate leadership can transform an organization from within, creating a ripple effect that extends far beyond the workplace.
In The Compassion Advantage, readers will discover how compassion is not just a soft skill but a powerful force that can significantly bolster employee retention, enhance organizational agility, drive innovation, and supercharge engagement. By fostering a culture of compassion, leaders can attract top talent and build a resilient workforce ready to tackle any challenge.
This book helps anyone who aspires to lead in a way that not only meets the demands of the modern world but also addresses the deep-seated emotional and psychological needs of their team.
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Toxic Leaders and Tough Bosses: Organizational Guardrails to Keep High Performers on Track
Teresa A. Daniel
This book draws upon numerous studies and interviews to show the real, devastating impact of toxic workplace culture and why leaders must care. It discusses what signs to look out for in a toxic workplace, factors that promote toxic behavior, types of leaders and how they impact their organization, the role of HR in managing employee wellbeing, and what to look out for in exceptional leaders. With evidence-based strategies for building stronger workplace culture, including tools to help organizations develop better leaders and managers, it makes a compelling case for eradicating toxic leaders as a priority. This book is for organizational leaders, mid-level managers, supervisors, HR practitioners and anyone else invested in implementing new, tried and tested ideas to improve their organization's culture to create and sustain its optimum success.
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Shaping a Winning Team: A Leader's Guide to Hiring, Assessing, and Developing the People You Need to Succeed
Paul Fayad
Chak Fu Lam, PhD
Organizations spend too much of their earnings with each bad hire. They count on failed interview processes and fallible intuition of specific managers when they choose staff, create training programs, and promote from within. Despite the best of intentions, they put their people in position to fail, while simultaneously hurting morale and losing opportunities for better performance.
This book will help reorient that team-building process to better hire, assess, and manage the people that make up the foundation of every company so readers can get the right people in the right places faster, securing their productivity.
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The High-Value Writing Workbook: Write for Success in Work and Life
Erin Lebacqz
Teams and leaders can't succeed without intentional, respectful, clear communication. Leaders can use language to convey respect and build trust with employees; employees can use it to help the organization meet goals—and to build successful professional relationships.
This workbook helps all levels of employees write with strategy, intention, and clarity. The workbook includes stories, examples, before and after revisions, and lots of practice exercises! Users will even find links to related videos for those who like to learn through video and visuals. Supervisors can use the Discussion Questions in the Appendix to lead application discussions among their teams.
In the past, we've mainly learned only one set of writing goals: the informative goals. However, today's professional writing demands that we meet relational goals as well, using our writing to convey respect, build community, and balance power. Empower employees to meet both informational and relational goals!
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Can We All Just Get Along? - Rodney King: Courageous Communication: A Return to Civility
Diana Peterson-More
"Can We All Just Get Along?" – Rodney King: Courageous Communication: A Return to Civility helps people by promoting understanding and civility. It offers practical strategies for engaging in respectful dialogue, even in polarized environments. The book addresses modern challenges like the pandemic and the rise of social media, providing guidance on handling their impact on communication and society. It encourages positive workplace dynamics by discussing shifts in work environments and helps counteract misinformation by promoting fact-based discussions. The book fosters personal growth by inspiring readers to contribute to a more respectful society and build stronger relationships. Through civil communication, readers learn to resolve conflicts amicably and develop empathy. Overall, it serves as a guide to improve communication skills, understand the importance of civility, and contribute positively to society.
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Rethinking Talent Decisions: A Tale of Complexity, Technology and Subjectivity
Sharna Wiblen
This book presents an uncomfortable truth: Talent decisions are always complex and always subjective. This is especially true in today's digital age, where technology systems help bolster and shape talent decisions. The perspectives and the capacity of key decision-makers to craft astute talent decisions hold the potential to transcend a company from mere mediocrity to unparalleled excellence. Drawing on examples from business, sports, movies and everyday interactions, this book emphasises the importance of understanding complexity and encourages deliberate, intentional, and informed decisions and conversations around talent. The book posits that many long-held convictions about talent may be profoundly flawed and proposes that the gateway to unleashing a team’s boundless talents resides within the thoughts and judgments of team leaders.