Many people are ushered into managerial positions without the required managerial training. Some become managers through a promotion that come in recognition of their technical expertise. Others become managers through formal management training. What makes the difference, does it matter how one get to be a manager? Does the manager's skills reflect in team performance, are teams a reflection of their managers? Other people refuse to take responsibility...

The most successful organizations add a healthy dose of play into their daily or weekly routines. In fact, research has shown that when people actually enjoy their jobs they're more creative, more productive, and more committed to doing their jobs well. Companies like the Colorado Health Sciences Center and Southwest Airlines attest to the positive effect of fun at work. Both trace increased job satisfaction and decreased employee downtime to concerted...

Do people drive you nuts? Are silos and turf wars challenging the culture? Wondering if it ever gets any easier? The toughest - and best - part of leadership is the people. But let's face it, people dynamics can be tricky. Solutions are within. People Stuff is your map to the complex territory of human behavior and leadership strategies. People Stuff goes well beyond frustrating 'personality clashes' to uncover the dynamics of human interactions at...

Your people might be your organization's greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together. This book shows how, describing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together - building greater trust, understanding...

From well-respected human resources and corporate training experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, a must-read guide to the innovative strategies that the best companies are using to create a workplace that the best talent chooses-both today and in 2020. In The 2020 Workplace, Meister and Willyerd offer a battle plan to start winning tomorrow's employees today.

The leadership exodus of the Baby Boomers is creating dramatically-accelerated promotions in organizations and leaving behind a significant leadership skills gap. • Do you aspire to build a truly high performance team? • Is your career not moving forward quickly enough? • Are you in a little over your head as a leader? If so, this book can help! All intentions, actions, and results should be viewed through what Cory Bouck calls "The Lens of...

By having carefully structured conversations about taboo topics instead of avoiding them altogether, organizations can safely confront biases and stereotypes and become stronger and more inclusive. Politics, religion, race-we can't talk about topics like these at work, right? But in fact, these conversations are happening all the time, either in real life or virtually. And if they aren't handled effectively, they can become more polarizing and...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In 1996, the first article on Internet-based training was published in Training Magazine. That year, the e-learning market grew from a few million dollars to $3. 4 billion worldwide. But in 2002, the stock market crashed, and the e-learning industry experienced a trough of disillusionment. #2 The last event in the time flow is the merger in the e-learning industry...

Si hay una aspiración compartida por los profesionales de Recursos Humanos en cualquier parte del mundo, sin duda es la de convertirse en un auténtico business partner. Pero, ¿cómo lograrlo? En estas páginas, Luis Pulgar, referente internacional en la materia, explica paso a paso qué debe hacer un profesional de Recursos Humanos para ser un verdadero socio de negocio. Basado en su propia experiencia de más de 30 años en empresas multinacionales...

Pie Graphs are commonly used by corporations to illustrate their diversity. Improvements in pie graph analytics have been accepted as progress by corporate standards. True Diversity challenges this conventional wisdom, exposes the inherent weaknesses of pie graphs and challenges companies to Go Beyond The Pie Graph. To group all African Americans, Hispanics, Asians etc. into one slice of a pie graph is an insult and an undermining of the commercial...