Discover how to unlock the potential contained within your teams with this insightful resourceThe Leadership Star: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Staff Engagement provides readers with a step-by-step guide to developing engagement within their professional teams in for-profit, non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations. Experienced executive, management consultant, and author Brian Hartzer walks readers through the foundational and advanced t...

Bring out the best in your team! A good leader manages, but a great leader builds a culture that engages people emotionally – helping both individuals and teams to achieve more than they ever thought possible. High levels of employee engagement have been shown to lead to increased customer satisfaction, employee productivity and profitability while also reducing staff turnover and absenteeism. But what can an individual leader do to drive consistently high engagement? In The Leadership Sta...

***The Strategic Planning Workbook***is an invaluable, ready-to-use guide to creating and implementing a strategic plan. Refreshingly free of the usual grand business models peddled by consultants, this book provides the concepts needed to do the thinking, the tools to gather the necessary information, the techniques to make your decisions and the frameworks to translate conclusions into action plans. With a strong focus on matching the right kind of strategy to your business and the all-i...

Illustrates how managers can inspire individuals or teams to develop. Sets out guidelines on how to reduce negativity, boost positive feelings and foster enthusiasm and involvement.

'William Cowan's Building a Winning Career is an exceptional resource, standing out as one of the most comprehensive and impactful books I've encountered in my 40 years as a senior HR executive managing recruiting and career transitions.'- Bob Gerst, Host of the PEOPLE IN TRANSITION podcast.Do you know how to seek out and win your next executive role?Are you well prepared to take the next steps in your career?

A smart, small book for any manager’s pocket.In every manager’s career there are moments where decisions need to be made in order to achieve success and this smart, nicely packaged little book can be there to help each time. The trick to succeeding in these moments is to identify each of these situations ahead of time and understand how to act and what to do to reduce the chances of failure. That is exactly what The Little Black Book for Managers has done....

THE NEW AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC WORK ON DISRUPTIVE HR. THE WAY WE WORK IS CHANGING FAST, AND TRADITIONAL HR IS NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE.Equipping our organizations to meet today’s demands requires something very different. This book provides HR professionals with:a compelling case for changing HRpractical people solutions for a disrupted worldstrategies to make the changes they needways to equip HR with the right capabilities ...

Discover how to become an effective strategic thinkerSome people seem to achieve the best results, again and again. Is it luck? Or is it strategy?How to Think Strategically equips you with the skills you need to make the best decisions and develop a powerful strategic mindset.This hands-on guide tackles both the thinking and the doing, helping you develop a robust strategic plan. It offers a six-step framework that addresses key questions, including:

In The Best Leaders Don’t Shout, Bruce shares the lessons learned as he and his teams have defended businesses against the threats of the poor performance he inherited, and then turned those same businesses around into highly profitable organisations with engaged teams and ecstatic customers. His jargon free and simple approach to leadership provides an enlightened pathway for anyone wanting to be a better leader or manager.The Best Leaders Don’t Shout is designed...

If you feel overwhelmed by the constant juggling of different areasof your life, this book can help. There's so much pressure on manypeople today to succeed at work that sometimes 'real life' tends totake a backseat. Your relationships with friends, family, partner, andchildren can all suffer as you try to cram everything into a normal day.Balance Your Life and Work contains a quiz, step-by-stepguidance and action points, top tips to bear...

Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life based on your passions, ambitions and ultimate visions. By actively taking part in each of the exercises, you give yourself the best chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur, or the sufficient clarity to decide what other career opti...

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.From managing and motivating people and teams to performance management and appraisals, THE ULTIMATE MANAGEMENT BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises.This is your complete course in modern management.ABOUT THE SERIES