Human Leadership

Life provides a unique opportunity to do great things and help make the world a better place. Given that a staggering 90,000 hours of our lives (on average) will be spent working, how many of those precious hours will be meaningful or memorable? Authors Ben Renshaw and Sophie Devonshire believe it's possible to make the time you spend at work more rewarding and enjoyable. In LoveWork they share seven simple steps to help you find new ways to build a more positive relationship with your work.

In Dr. Diane Hamilton’s provocative new book, she uncovers what could foreseeably be the next movement to enhance human performance, a critical and direct link to improving motivation and communication-based issues that challenge organizations. Drawing on decades of research and incorporating interviews from some of the top leaders of our time, Hamilton examines the factors that influence curiosity including fear, assumptions, technology, and environment (FATE). Her ground-breaking research provides an action plan to transform individuals and organizations.

Trust is the foundation of all meaningful relationships, yet 70 percent of professionals don't trust their managers. It's a number that actually surprises few but profoundly concerns most of the awesome thought leaders alive today. From Simon Sinek to Patrick Lencioni, Paul Zak to Brené Brown, all agree that a lack of trust is the root of faltering relationships and mediocrity at work. What galvanised Matthew Davies to write this book was the lack of tools to address this appalling problem.

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study in preparation for the SHRM exam. However, the truth is that the SHRM test is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test.

In this audiobook, you will find practical guidance to introduce a selection of 10 different technologies into your coaching practice, making your coaching offer more unique and increasing its effectiveness.

Do you want to develop the charisma of a cult leader, and not spend your life struggling to lead a team that hates you? Do you want to build an empire - automatically? Are you struggling to build a team and surrounded by workers who resist your every decision? Or are you just tired of being at the bottom of the pile when you know you could run the ship better if you were in charge? You cannot underestimate the power of influence. Learn how to shatter the glass ceiling keeping you from achieving your goals.

Real wages have stagnated or declined for most workers, job insecurity has increased, and retirement income is uncertain. Why have jobs gotten so much worse? As Peter Cappelli argues, these issues and others stem from the logic of financial accounting and its fundamental flaws in dealing with human capital. Financial accounting views employee costs as fixed costs that cannot be reduced and fails to account for the costs of bad employees and poor management. The simple goal of today's executives is to drive down employment costs, even if it raises costs elsewhere.

Getting It Done Right, unlike general management books, focuses on the issues uniquely faced by human service managers. Vincent Pettinelli encourages human service professionals to fully realize their commitment to the highest quality services by dedicating themselves to mastering essential management skills. Getting It Done Right is an invaluable guide for any human service manager or any employee considering a move into leadership. Human services is an environment with diverse constraints and frequently conflicting demands.

In Humanizing Human Capital, Solange Charas, PhD, and Stela Lupushor reframe traditional HR practices into a future-forward strategy to optimize human capital. Charas and Lupushor shift decision-making about people from a gut sense to an evidence-based approach—a critical and much-needed departure from the cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best approach of most traditional HR programs today.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle. Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence is for leaders who want to create a better future within this context of change and supplies a balance of historical and theoretical context with practical frameworks for beginning to create a more human future today.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn everything you need to know about DevOps release management, from the basics to the more advanced topics. Discover how to effectively plan, schedule, coordinate, and deploy software releases using the latest tools and techniques. With practical examples and real-world scenarios, this book is ideal for software developers, IT operations professionals, and managers who want to improve their team's software delivery process.

This book is a passionate and enthusiastic account of the life of a religious sister in the 21st century. As an Educator and Organizational Consultant the author draws on the resources of professional skills in leadership training, facilitation, and consultancy and integrates them with discernment for action. True to the charism and mission of her congregation of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, based on the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola, she writes with energy and vast experience about practical ways of living faith in action.

The 1970s were known for free love and experimentation. Few cared if you were gay, straight, bisexual or transgender. It was the era of "sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll". In the midst of all this appeared a woman who had turned the head of Al Capone, married into the famous Maybelline company, and possessed more than enough beauty, magnetism and allure to make men do most anything.

Algorithms. Artificial intelligence. Big data. No matter what your industry, you can't escape the influence of technology in every facet of your business. But in spite of their incredible potential, these and similar technologies are forcing us to face a vital question: are we in danger of gaining the world but losing our souls?

The top is never lonely when you value the relationships that you've built on the climb. The Top Is Never Lonely is a leadership journal that focuses on the human connection of leadership. Built on the experiences, insight, and lessons learned throughout a military career, The Top Is Never Lonely takes listeners on a 30-day leadership journey that explores the realms of team-building, empathy, resilience, authentic communication, vulnerability, and courage.

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ) and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity - in work and life - via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness.

In this original audio program, Chris Loving presents his 10 essential components of leadership. These include "both/and" thinking, the whole person, interpersonal literacy, generous spirit, coming home to ourselves, and more. Loving is the founder of Loving Leadership. For over 25 years, he has pioneered visionary leadership models and consulted hundreds of clients, including educational institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and not-for-profit organizations.

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The universality of the term human resource management seems to have various ways of application in different regions, practices, and skills. This does not mean there is a universally accepted method or technique that best supplies the force that drives development with practice. It elaborates on the case that performance relies on the individual ability, motivation, and opportunity in a form of choice, alignment, and integration of the organizational resources which is designed to improve organizational performance in a process of planning ahead of the current situation.

Which mindset do you think existing Boards and CEOs are in when it comes to HRDs being able to make the move to CEO? Have you ever asked the question why HR Directors don’t make the move to CEO? Why Boards and CEOs ignore “HRness”? Is HR really dead? Where is HR’s guiding North Star? Could you imagine an HR Director being your CEO? In Human Resources Changes the World, Glenn G Jones examines the available research and sets out the reasons why HR is not progressing to its full potential; it will surprise you.