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Mastering HR: Best HRM Books for Beginners to Read in 2024

HR Digest

From talent acquisition hacks to building a kickass company culture, these books will get you fired up to tackle the ever-evolving world of work. This list unveils the best HR books of 2024, packed with insights to help you navigate the hybrid model, understand the changing employee landscape, and future-proof your HR strategies.

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Are You Getting an A in Social Excellence?

Lead Change Blog

Social Excellence [n]: A state of perpetual generosity, curiosity, positivity, and openness to limitless possibility. As a coach, trainer and consultant, Mary Schaefer''s expertise is in helping managers and employees conquer their dread about difficult conversations, to go into them feeling equipped and confident.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

In my book Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges , I illuminate obstacles that hold most of us back at some point in our lives and present methods of overcoming them. Settling : Stopping at “good enough” instead of aiming for something better in interactions.

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Why Complexity Sucks

In the CEO Afterlife

It starts with the corporate strategy, and includes marketing strategy, and the all-important human resource strategy. For effective workplace culture, Google promotes and supports openness in which everyone is encouraged to share ideas and opinions. You focus on that 20% to generate a high ROE (return on effort).

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How to Deal with Difficult Coworkers and Toxic Managers

Skip Prichard

Peter Economy is a bestselling business book author with more than 100 books to his credit. However, before that he worked as a manager—at one time he was in charge of more than 400 people working at more than 35 different sites scattered across the United States. In the book, I call this person the Malicious One.

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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. An open door? Not only was I going to have an Open-Door Policy, I was going to ace it! Shut the Conventional Door.

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Are You Managing Human Capital or Leading People?

The Practical Leader

Is your organization staffed by human capital? Do managers talk about “their people?” ” Phrases like “head count,” “human capital,” and “my people,” dehumanize and objectify. We could push this further and make the same argument for “human resources.”