Human Resources: Professional Development

A fact-based and proven approach to help working mothers rediscover happiness as they balance their duties at home and work

A suitably engrossing investigation of attention through many disciplines and ways of life, from neuroscience to surfing.

35 ways to success, fulfillment, and happiness How to Have a Great Life starts with you-your strengths and amazing potential and how to develop those.

"A profound and accessible guide to an ecological civilization of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all." --David Korten, international-bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us--and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.

Exploring the practices developed by remote teams to maintain trust across cultures, this book offers both theoretical and practical resources to enable better working in challenging contexts of project work.

The book helps the reader assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs--context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative leadership, and discusses options concerning how to improve team performance along each of these dimensions.

In Teams That Work, Scott Tannenbaum and Eduardo Salas present the seven drivers of team effectiveness and the clearest recommendations on what really makes teams great.

Managing Conflict shows HR professionals how to tackle these problems by not only resolving current issues, but also preventing future instances of conflict.

Following the author's step-by-step guide, you will: Acquire the skill and confidence to coach conflicting employees back to a professional, effective working relationship, while simultaneously changing their lives for the better. Restore control and peace of mind to the workplace. Increase your leadership presence.

In this widely anticipated and deeply researched book, Dr. Donohue, a victim of workplace stress herself, lays out a seven-step solution to give you the tools you need to make communication a cure for workplace stress, not a cause--even (especially) when you're working with a generationally diverse team.

Provides savvy strategies and specific action steps to improve business communication skills for today's new world of work

You'll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results.

. The book explores the vital importance of networking, explores the steps that lead to successful networking, and explains why we need it. Swim! dives deep into the concepts of mentorship and the power of human connection.

Coaching Essentials for Managers provides the skills you need to effectively coach your employees. Organized in three, easy-to-digest sections--The Essentials, The Essentials Applied, and Beyond the Essentials--this book includes real-world scenarios, illustrations, a self-assessment that identifies strengths and opportunities for growth, and practical exercises to reinforce learning.

This is the go-to guide on making good decisions, helping teams work together, dealing with people problems, and achieving goals when you're newly in charge or looking to brush up on your leadership skills.

Stephen M.R. Covey has made it his life's work to understand trust in leadership and organizations. In his newest and most transformative book, Trust and Inspire, he offers a simple yet bold solution: to shift from this "command and control" model to a leadership style of "trust and inspire." People don't want to be managed; they want to be led.

This book was written for today's and tomorrow's leaders facing today's challenges - time constraints, overcrowded leadership development landscape, and uncertainty about where to start. It is grounded in learning and development and leadership research and illustrated with true-to-life vignettes, sample leadership fitness plans, templates, and tip sheets.