Work Behavior

Working remotely allows us to have more control over our time and organize it in a way that works for us personally. We can take care of errands during the day, take our laptop and work from an exotic location, or spend more time with family after dinner. And we get all of these benefits while still getting paid!

Virtual working - also known as remote working, telecommuting, flexible working, or homeworking - is an important and growing trend in the global employment landscape. Its popularity has increased due to globalization and outsourcing. However, unlocking the benefits of virtual work depends largely on the organizational culture, management, and leadership to support it. Virtual Leadership identifies the challenges of virtual work and explains how to develop the facilitative leadership mindset to effectively manage people remotely.

It can be difficult to live according to our values in a complicated world. At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can be more mindful and intentional about our impact - personal, social, economic, and environmental. As designer and creative director Kelly Small had to do to navigate a crisis of ethics and burnout in their career in advertising, we can admit our complicity in problematic systems and take on the responsibility of letting our own conscience guide our decisions.

Today’s forward-thinking leaders know that the future of work is human; it’s about catalyzing people in pursuit of a meaningful mission. By leading organizations with soul, purpose, and love, conscious leaders can heal the crisis of suffering present in many organizations and revitalize the workforce through innovative practices and deep self-awareness. With The Evolved Executive, leaders and entrepreneurs can shatter the taboo of bringing love into business and, in so doing, awaken their soul and liberate the soul of their organization.

People Operations explains how leaders at small- and medium-sized businesses can stop spending time on HR administration - "paperwork" - and start focusing on the "peoplework" that truly fuels employee growth and productivity. Authors Jay Fulcher, Kevin Marasco, and Tracy Cote provide listeners with a playbook for creating a massive competitive advantage by eliminating antiquated approaches to HR. The book takes a look at how work has changed and what companies need to do about it, and the new approach they must take to processes, systems, and best practices.

The perils of a disengaged workforce are well known - low productivity, high employee turnover, and failure to meet organization-wide goals. Less well known is what to do about it. How do you create a workforce that is always ready, able, and eager to take the organization to the next level? You have to create a magnetic culture. As CEO of leading employee survey and HR consulting firm HR Solutions, Inc., Kevin Sheridan knows how it's done - and in Building a Magnetic Culture, he shares all his secrets.

Adjusting to the new virtual work framework is the key to unlocking your team's full potential and avoiding common pitfalls. And Alexis Gerst, the author of this game-changing remote team management guide, has left no stone unturned in leading effective virtual teams. Packed with practical tips for managers - including email communication tips and virtual meeting tips - this easy-to-follow virtual management book will allow you to face all future challenges with confidence.

"F*ck Your Office Snacks" is a book written by Tara Furiani, who is also known as "Not the HR Lady," about her experiences as a Chief People Officer and her journey towards advocating for self-care, self-advocacy, and empowerment in the workplace. The book includes history lessons, news stories, studies, data, and facts that support the author's position on equity and inclusivity, as well as movie and song lyrics, quotes by the artists she is inspired by and are relevant to the storytelling, all wrapped up with a healthy dose of humor.

La tendencia actual es buscar que los empleados se sientan cada vez mejor en sus lugares de trabajo. Aunque esta es una labor en principio de las empresas, los empleados pueden también diseñar estrategias que les ayuden a construir mayor bienestar en su trabajo. Este libro busca presentar herramientas para poder tener un ambiente laboral sano.

Inspired to extend a helping hand to ambitious women working in corporate America, a veteran executive offers honest, practical, slightly irreverent advice about navigating companies that are run and populated predominately by men: how to interpret their sometimes surprising behavior, avoid common mistakes, flourish with the good guys, deal with the bad guys, and nurture a wonderful, satisfying career in a non-traditional role.

Do you struggle to get along with your co-workers or especially one in particular? Would you like to find a way to manage your workplace conflict and reduce stress at work? Do you want to learn the skills of conflict management? Then this book is for you! Conflict at Work teaches you about the different kinds of conflict that commonly happen in the workplace and the best ways to reduce them.

Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.

Goals is for anyone in the workplace who wants true success at work and at home. Designed after the Business Goals program, Jud Boies developed this practical guide for achieving what we want most while building relationships along the way. This book follows the life of Todd Hanson, a fictional character who reaches amazing success through the Business Goals program. Everything Todd goes through has happened in real life to people who have adopted the principles in this unique system.

This book offers non-traditional approaches to reducing overwork and burnout, rethinking the pitch process, eliminating anxiety from timesheets, embracing employee side gigs, treating vendors like humans, going all-in on transparency and trust, and many other methods to leading and managing that are focused on employee well-being, mental health, and true work life balance.

Are you building a typical team...or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company’s long-term success.

Imagine a company where everyone loves to work, where employees feel not just "satisfied" but truly cared for, respected, and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall performance. Aron Ain, the award-winning CEO of Kronos, a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions, believes that anything is possible when people are inspired.

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organisation to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new-something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible.

It’s a new era of business and consumerism - and you play a role in defining it.

Today’s biggest trends - the mobile web, social media, real time - have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. This is the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new era of relevance.

Award-winning author George Murray asks leaders and business owners…if your company is struggling to find new employees, you are not alone. If you find new people, but they soon leave, usually for more money, you are not alone. If you are working hard to engage those who have worked for you for a while—-or are brand new—-this book has answers how to help so you are successful. It's all related to the company's culture in how you Ignite. Engage. and Retain. with both long-term and new employees.

In lively prose that is as engaging as it is illuminating, Dattner tells a host of true stories of those he has worked with - from the woman who was so scapegoated by her colleagues that she decided to quit, to the clueless boss who was too quick to blame his staff. He shares a wealth of insight from the study of human evolution and psychology to reveal the underlying reasons why people are so prone to blaming and credit-grabbing; it's not only human nature, it's found throughout the animal kingdom.