Built for People
Author: Jessica Zwaan
Publisher: Kogan Page
Price: £29.99
Jessica Zwaan believes HR has more to learn from product management than just a vague notion of ‘user experience'.
In Built for People, she takes her experience across a range of start-ups to show how to take an agile, iterative and evidence-based approach to HR to improve employee experience and drive business results.
A Practical Guide to TUPE and Employee Transfers
Author: Dominic Holmes
Publisher: Law Brief Publishing
Price: £69.99
To say M&A is complicated is an understatement, and HR professionals can find themselves caught in an area that gives lawyers pause for thought. Hoping to clear the path for UK and European employers, Holmes’ book is a practical guide to how the legal principles apply in practice.
Long-term Leader
Author: Scott Agnew
Publisher: Beverly Hills Publishing
Price: £20.73
“The days of dictatorial leadership are far behind us,” writes Agnew. Finding success with his own style of trust-based, culture-focused leadership, he has produced this guide to building a long-term outlook on leadership, far from the chop-and-change world of many CEOs.
Exploratory Writing
Author: Alison Jones
Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
Price: £14.99
Alison Jones, host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast, believes that writing for the self, rather than always for others, can have a powerful effect in the business world.
Exploratory Writing is intended to help leaders nail down what they want to say, before they say it.
The Long-Distance Team
Authors: Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Price: £19.99
Trying to shape organisational culture while operating remotely has become a much more pressing in the past few years. In The Long-Distance Team, Eikenberry and Turmel set out to provide cultural leads guidance on how to define, design, and nurture positive cultures for remote or hybrid teams.
Learning Habits
Author: Sarah Nicoll
Publisher: Kogan Page
Price: £29.99
Not relying on generalities or banal exhortations, Nicoll has instead attempted to build a precise guide to the behaviours needed to form real learning habits. Supporting each habit with case studies, the book includes a number of checklists and models to keep readers on track.
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