Powering Workplace Proactivity
Author: Joanne Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Price: £35.99
Hesitation, doubt and unconscious self-limitation are all enemies of innovation and an agile, confident team. Yet the pressures and expectations of the 21st century make it all too easy to be reactive and keep a short-term outlook. In Powering Workplace Proactivity, Joanne Gray makes the case that driving proactive behaviours can help your organisation flourish. Intended as a practical resource, the book features evidence-based tools and case studies.
Coaching as a Leader
Author: Jennifer Kidby
Publisher: Kogan Page
Price: £32.99
Without effective coaching, it’s hard to see employees reaching their full potential. Encouraging people to think critically and problem solve confidently is a key part of the challenge of being a leader. Jennifer Kidby sets out a comprehensive guide to influencing behaviour and culture across an organisation, covering the skills needed to coach as a leader, and how to adopt a coaching approach throughout the employee lifecycle.
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Selling Social Justice
Author: Jennifer Pan
Publisher: Verso
Price: £12.99
The international reckoning with racism prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement has, five years later, failed to fully materialise. In Selling Social Justice, Jennifer Pan argues that the only real beneficiaries of the movement have been those with the capital to sell solutions to a ‘new’ problem, that workers themselves have lost out, and that the right’s war against wokeness is a distraction from the economic hardships faced by millions.
The Three Bucket Leader
Author: Karen A Gilhooly
Publisher: Post Hill
Price: £12.99
Promising a powerful new engagement method that can rally teams together, The Three Bucket Leader offers an exploration of how habits and culture can lead people to disengage from work, and what to do about it. By sharing her own experience, engagement specialist and leadership consultant Karen Gilhooly hopes to help leaders unite their teams around a common cause.
How to Work with Complicated People
Author: Ryan Leak
Publisher: Maxwell Leadership
Price: £20.99
Drawing on his experience coaching leaders around the world in sports, entertainment and finance, Ryan Leak shares research-based strategies for working productively and collaboratively with even the most challenging of colleagues. By detoxifying unrealistic expectations and finding better sources of understanding between individuals, he argues, we can both transform our approach to teamwork and improve ourselves.
This article was published in the May/June 2025 edition of HR magazine.
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