Elevate Your Leadership Skills: Must-Read Books for Summer 2023
Get my curated list of must-read books that will take your leadership skills to new heights this summer, 2023.
Uncovering the Art of Influence: The Secrets of Leadership and Persuasion Among Peers
Learn how to build and maintain positive relationships while becoming a more persuasive, influential, and formidable negotiator.
My 2022 Gift Giving Book List
In this list, you’ll find books on workplace culture, leadership models, the hybrid workplace, DEI, and time & happiness strategies to help you begin 2023 with gratitude and make progress with workplace well-being strategies.
How to Manage the Return-to-Office Phase to Ensure All Employees Can Be at Their Best
Managing return-to-office? Here are lessons learned from remote work during the pandemic and advice to ensure your return-to-office is successful.
Everything Counts – Your 2022 Summer Reading and Listening List
I recommend you carve out a small amount of your precious time to read or listen for the sake of your professional development and your well-being. Here’s my take on some book titles worthy of your attention - happy reading!
How to Establish a Feedback-Rich Work Environment
During widespread talent shortages where employers are striving and struggling to keep employees, timely feedback habits are an important, inexpensive and impactful tactic of smart talent management. The good news is it doesn’t take as much time as you fear, and it’s easier than you think. Here’s how!
The 2021 Summer Reading List for Our Times
This reading list speaks to the issues of our times. While continuous learning is an ongoing theme of all my semi-annual book lists, it is front and centre with rock-star authors and leadership experts this summer.
The (Not So Distant) Future of Work
The workplaces of tomorrow are becoming clearer for researchers, educators and employers. We will observe and learn lessons from workplaces reopening in Australia and other factors that are also coming into focus as we forecast further out.
Humanity at Work Wins Gold at Nautilus Book Awards
Humanity at Work, Leading for Better Relationships and Results by Pierre Battah and published by Los Angeles-based LifeTree Media, an imprint of Wonderwell, recently won the gold medal at the prestigious U.S. Nautilus Book Awards in the Business and Leadership-Small Press category.
Take Back Your Work Day & Work Life
The best way to take back your workday and work-life is to manage your email inbox better. It has a liberating quality worth the daily effort and can make a huge difference in your well-being and effectiveness.
Contributing to Healthy Virtual Teams
In this article, we explore how we relate to new ways of working and what these new ways mean in terms of human connection and our well-being. I give you tips on making your day more relaxed and productive at the same time.
2020 Holiday Business Books
My annual holiday business book wish list has a decidedly more homegrown flavour this year, with a majority of my eight picks written by the home team. The pandemic makes an appearance as a number of this year's picks suggest ways the content can be helpful in these turbulent times.
How Leaders Intervene Effectively
Use highly illustrative explanations and specific examples, delivered with an instructional feel. This ensures that your feedback will be a powerful learning catalyst and positively impact behaviour. Photo by Kristin Hardwick.
Don’t Let Distraction Cost You the Race
Much credit to Vettel’s finish must be given to the race engineer’s voice in his ear. Wouldn’t it be great to have a little voice in our ear reminding us to stay focused when we find it difficult to concentrate and stay on task?
A Lesson in Situational Leadership at 4800 Meters
I’m delighted to bring you an alpine leadership lesson that, due to space constraints, didn’t make into my upcoming book Humanity at Work. It’s a leadership story from Neil Greenwood, the director and part-owner of Summit Oxygen.
Unleash Your Creative Depths: Write a Business Book Part II
If you're sitting on a book idea, write down the argument or point of view to get clear on the "why." Note the science and expertise that validate the argument. Seek publishing and editorial expertise early, put your learner hat on, and think a lot about the reader.
Unleash Your Creative Depths: Write a Business Book Part I
If you’ve ever considered writing a book, and herein a business book, there are some compelling reasons why you should go for it. I write this article to share my experiences in writing a book.
Your Summer Reading 2020
I've prepared my annual summer reading list with our new work world in mind. These books are for those who find solace and inspiration in the well-crafted storytelling and lessons non-fiction that biz books can offer.
Leading Through Uncertainty
The COVID pandemic is defining our time for now and predictably into the future. Uncertainty can derail our focus and eat up our energy. But with the right leadership to rely on, there is hope.
Leading From Home During a Pandemic
Very few of us have received training for leading in such a crisis as the current pandemic and global stay-at-home orders. We have to rise to meet and overcome the challenges and experiment to find those better ways forward.