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Best of HR books: October 2024

We delve into the latest releases
This month's round up includes a how-to guide on how to ask impactful interview questions

We delve into the latest book releases for HR professionals.

Influence at Work

Author: Steve J Martin

Publisher: Economist Books

Price: £10.99

Just because someone has seniority, does not necessarily mean they have influence. To be influential, you have to understand the unspoken rules that govern who is listened to, and what actually gets done. Putting these rules under the spotlight, Steve Martin promises a guide to building influence, connecting with others, winning over sceptics and swaying the undecided.


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Brilliant Questions for Great Interviewers

Author: Hugh Billot

Publisher: Woodbridge Publishers

Price: £22.99

Drawing out the character, thoughts and motivations of an interviewee is a notoriously difficult task: getting to know someone in an hour or two is near impossible. In Brilliant Questions for Great Interviewers, Hugh Billot draws on his years of experience in recruitment, alongside experience as both a CEO and HR director, to help guide readers towards revealing questions that give meaningful answers.

 

The Answer is a Question

Authors: Laura Ashley-Timms and Dominic Ashley-Timms

Publisher: TSO

Price: £14.99

Presenting a new model for management, The Answer is a Question asks that leaders shift to a questions-first approach – through the book’s four-step ‘STAR’ (stop, think, ask and result) model – that claims to cultivate engaged, problem-solving employees. If employees generate solutions to their own problems, the logic goes, they will be better engaged, and managers will get a whopping 20% of their time back.

 

The Ethical Imperative

Author: Andrew CM Cooper

Publisher: Wiley

Price: £22.99

Many books, like The Ethical Imperative, exist to draw attention to unscrupulous and unsustainable business practices. But some of these merely raise questions, with no answers. Giving five actionable strategies to transform an organisation into a “beacon of trust and responsibility,” including techniques to create an authentic, honest social media presence, Andrew Cooper actually provides some answers.

 

The Upside of Disruption

Author: Terence Mauri

Publisher: Wiley

Price: £22.99

The common conception is that bold decisions are inherently risky. Too much change, too quickly, is dangerous. Terence Mauri disagrees, In the Upside of Disruption, he argues that the risks of standing still are greater than we anticipate, and that bold decisions are safer than we think. Turning disruption into a tailwind is key to resilience, he promises, including strategies and steps for organisations looking to take advantage of a chaotic world’s unexpected turns.

 

This article was published in the September/October 2024 edition of HR magazine.

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