2023 Awards – Leadership in HR and Employee Development Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Leadership HR and Employee Development

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

Winner

The Trusted Learning Advisor: The Tools, Techniques and Skills You Need to Make L&D a Business Priority

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Author:

Keith Keating

How is your book helping others?

Evolve. Or else. This book serves as an instrumental guide for the talent development industry by shedding light on the need to transcend outdated, ingrained practices like order-taking and by advocating for the adoption of innovative, holistic, and human-centric approaches to learning and development. It emphasizes the importance of reshaping perceptions, creating new narratives, and embracing effective strategies in L&D, thereby fostering an environment conducive to organizational and individual growth and success. By doing so, it empowers L&D professionals to become Trusted Learning Advisors, enabling them to contribute more strategically and substantively to organizational objectives and worker well-being. The insights provided by this book are helping to pave the way for a more enlightened, prepared, and progressive talent development industry, one that values and nurtures the multifaceted development of the most important asset in any organization – the people.

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

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Be Your Best You: The Ultimate Research-Based Guide to Outstanding Leadership

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Author:

Mary Kovach Ph.D.

How is your book helping others?

This book delivers the full leadership spectrum by sharing nine leadership styles and allowing the reader to find his or her best fit. There are three sections to this book.
Part 1 discusses leadership styles and theories, including: Trait Theories, Behavioral Theories, Path-Goal Theory, Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Authentic Leadership, Servant Leadership, Situational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, and Transformational Leadership. Each leadership style is paired with reflection questions and a tool, to enhance leadership development.
Part 2 demonstrates how self-belief and self-doubt can influence results, with reflection questions, stories, and other techniques.
Part 3 consists of four leadership contexts (business, education, sport, and the military) from double-blind, peer reviewed, global scholarly studies that illustrate the direct impact of applying transformational leadership and prove its effectiveness.

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

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Employalty: How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work

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Author:

Joe Mull

How is your book helping others?

Speaker, author, and commitment expert Joe Mull has spent 15 years teaching leaders how to be better bosses. Grounded in research and filled with captivating stories, "Employalty" provides a simple, evidence-based framework for creating the kind of employee experience that leads people to join a company, stay long term, and do great work. "Employalty" is a clear playbook for attracting and retaining talent and turning ordinary people into devoted employees.

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

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The Day One Executive: A Guidebook to Stand Out in Your Career Starting Now

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Author:

April Armstrong

How is your book helping others?

I discovered early in my career there is a huge gap between what many of us learn in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. The Day One Executive aims to close that gap, empower you to be the chief executive of your life and stand out as a future executive in your job starting on “Day One.”

When you choose to be a Day One Executive, you are in the driver’s seat of your career. You expand your sphere of influence and become someone who can make things happen. You won’t stay stuck in a bad job or working for a bad boss, because you know you have the power to create, and recreate, your career at all times. Your work has greater impact, which is its own reward, and you also increase your earning power.

Best of all, you get to live your legacy—and you can start right now, wherever you are.

Leadership - HR and Employee Development

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Hiring Veterans: How To Leverage Military Talent for Organizational Growth

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Author:

Matthew J Louis

Co-Authors:

Dr. Anthony R. Garcia Sr.

How is your book helping others?

Hiring Veterans makes the clear case for the value of employing members of today's military community. Veterans represent a real-time talent pool of experienced, trained, and dedicated professionals that, when properly harnessed, comprise an instant means of improving an organization's competitiveness and productivity. Case studies of organizations both large and small clearly demonstrate how leveraging a veteran talent-based strategy is a business imperative resulting in organizational growth.

2023 Awards – Leadership DEI

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Leadership - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

Leadership - DEI

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Beyond Good: How Technology is Leading a Purpose-driven Business Revolution

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Author:

Theodora Lau

Co-Authors:

Bradley Leimer

How is your book helping others?

This book challenges leaders, particularly in the financial services industry to be more empathic and inclusive to live with dignity, security, and purpose. Aside from companies making overarching ESG statements, 'Beyond Good' creates a roadmap to ensure those policies are more than lip service.

Leadership - DEI

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Building a Culture of Inclusivity: Effective Internal Communication For Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Author:

Priya Bates

Co-Authors:

Advita Patel

How is your book helping others?

DEI initiatives will fail without good communication. It is crucial for internal communications to establish practical change within companies and make sure DEI is a normality and not a trend.

Leadership - DEI

Finalist

The Inclusion Edge: Confidently create a culture that celebrates diversity and belonging

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Author:

Mary McGuire

How is your book helping others?

The Inclusion Edge is a handbook for business leaders who have little or no exposure to the experience of minority groups, but are committed to making a difference in their organisations and beyond. The reason leader’s struggle so much with DE&I is because the backlash of doing things wrong is very real. Yet we know that real change can only come when those very same leader’s take decisive action to address the inequalities that exist.
The Inclusion Edge offers a pragmatic framework for busy leaders who want to integrate DE&I into their business priorities, but don't know where to start. The Inclusion Edge will show you how to:
• Develop bias awareness and open your eyes to the many ways inequality exists in society
• Embody the values of Belonging and nourish the green shoots of Inclusion to increase team and business performance.
• Leverage your own experience of exclusion to feel empathy towards those whose lives are affected by it every day.
• Learn to be open and curious

2023 Awards – Health Wellness Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Wellness

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Wellness.

Health - Wellness

Winner

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance: Mindful Lessons for a Meaningful Life

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Author:

Melo Calarco

How is your book helping others?

Fundamentally, the book helps people manage stress and prevent burnout. Each chapter ends with a practical takeaway technique to help people practice mindfulness and reclaim their self-care practices. It also shares ways to find purpose and balance in life.

Health - Wellness

Winner

The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life

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Author:

D. Terrence Foster, MD

How is your book helping others?

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and prevention and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.
This book intends to help people struggling with challenging situations in most aspects of life, such as stressful jobs, complex personal or toxic relationships, finances, business, etc. Over forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.This book's goal, in part, is to help prevent people from getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested.

The Stress Book will significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. Thereby enabling them to live a longer, more prosperous, and enjoyable life.

Health - Wellness

Finalist

Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it

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Author:

Paul Taylor

How is your book helping others?

Death by Comfort makes an impact with its very title. Value abounds in every chapter, each meticulously researched and supported by cutting-edge science. Perhaps the biggest impact Death by Comfort makes is its practical solutions to our complex health issues.
Modern humans are the most overweight, depressed, medicated, and addicted cohort of adults that has ever lived, yet life has never been so good! Our sedentary lifestyles and ultra-processed foods are making us overweight and sick. Our digital world is leaving us physically disconnected. The solution? Embrace discomfort. This book explores the science behind counting your steps, cold showers, intermittent fasting, ‘digital sunsets’, and much, much more.
Reading Death by Comfort offers a sense of relief. With every ‘aha’ moment – where complex physiology and psychology is simply explained, with accompanying practical tools – the reader is left with a true drive to positively impact their own physical and mental health.

2023 Awards – Psychology Health Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Self-Help Psychology

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Psychology.

Health - Psychology

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Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don't Finish What We Start

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Author:

Tracy Maylett

Co-Authors:

Tim Vandehey

How is your book helping others?

Why is it so hard to finish what we start? Every day we wake up determined to engage with life—to finish that novel, overcome work challenges, repair a strained relationship, or reach fitness goals. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Are we doomed to a lifetime of regret?

Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture. Drawing on disciplines from neurobiology to business and based on a massive database, Tracy Maylett and Tim Vandehey reveal a powerful psychological process that makes us disengage from what (or who) we care about most—often when we’re heartbreakingly close to real breakthroughs.

In Swipe, readers learn how this mechanism works and recognize when they’re caught on the “Hamster Wheel.” They’ll discover how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what they start.

Health - Psychology

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Frazzlebrain: Break Free From Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology

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Author:

Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D.

How is your book helping others?

FRAZZLEBRAIN is the first known book to address the link between anxiety, anger, and stress while employing groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. Readers of FRAZZLEBRAIN will learn how focused thoughts, intentional behaviors, and healing experiences shape the structure and function of the brain. They learn how to tame cynicism and hostility and generate more hopeful thoughts. Readers explore the relationship between the gut and the brain. They learn how time spent in nature heals the nervous system. Daily, routine, and random acts of kindness help connect us to others and strengthen resilience. Readers learn how to create healing experiences that can help the brain recover from trauma. Cultivating positive emotions changes brain chemistry and promotes good health and stronger relationships. FRAZZLEBRAIN includes 23 mood-boosting exercises to settle the nervous system and provide immediate relief from anxiety, anger, and stress.

Health - Psychology

Finalist

The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life

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Author:

D. Terrence Foster, MD

How is your book helping others?

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and prevention and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.
This book intends to help people struggling with challenging situations in most aspects of life, such as stressful jobs, complex personal or toxic relationships, finances, business, etc. Over forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.This book's goal, in part, is to help prevent people from getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested.

The Stress Book will significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. Thereby enabling them to live a longer, more prosperous, and enjoyable life.

Health - Psychology

Finalist

Dear Psychosis,

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Author:

Sarah Martin

How is your book helping others?

What would you do if you received a message from a stranger telling you that your daughter, who is travelling alone in Turkey, is having some sort of mental ill health episode?
Dear Psychosis, is a confronting, frightening, dramatic and a no-holds-barred account of a family’s experience following their daughter’s psychotic episode in Istanbul, and her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

To some it may be a warning, to others a story of hope. Most of all, it shows how the love and care given by strangers and the courage, strength and fortitude of a family paved the way for their daughter’s recovery and inspired the family to break the silence around mental illness.

This book will give you strength, hope, awareness, resilience, empathy and knowledge - whether you are a carer, a loved one or experience mental ill health yourself.

Dear Psychosis, is a powerful story that needs to be heard.

Break. The. Silence.

2023 Awards – Parenting and Family Health Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Parenting and Family

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Parenting and Family.

Health - Parenting and Family

Winner

The B.A.B.Y. Book: Best Advice for Baby & You: The Essential Parent's Hospital Guide to Postpartum Care From Delivery to Discharge...and Beyond!

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Author:

Karen Lea Brewer BSN, RNC-MNN

How is your book helping others?

This book helps to educate parents on what to expect after the delivery of their baby. What mothers need to know about taking care of themselves for the first few days, what parents need to know about caring and feeding their baby, and what to expect over the next couple days during their hospital stay.

Most parents have not been patients in the hospital, so to be in the hospital for the delivery of their child/children can be a very anxiety-provoking time. Not only does mom need care but so do their baby/babies. This makes it twice as scary for parents. This guide goes over everything they can expect to happen with them, how to navigate those first few days, and how to handle a few things more after they are discharged.

With the nursing shortage ever-growing, education will no doubt be put on the back burner and patients will suffer because of it. This guide will help bridge that educational gap and help parents have a great, anxiety-reducing start to their new life together.

Health - Parenting and Family

Finalist

Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child

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Author:

Amanda Diekman

How is your book helping others?

Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them. Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.