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August
Fact: One third of all external hires are no longer with the organization after 2 years. What can you do about it?
Your attitude makes or breaks you in life. We all have attitudes that are toxic and damaging to our lives, and we all have healthy attitudes that help us to experience life in full.
Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.
In this book, early childhood entrepreneurs Carrie Casey and Kate Woodward Young share their 20+ years of practical tips, tools, advice, and hard-won experience in the field they love with those ready to become successful and effective administrators.
This book offers valuable principles to those who are hungry to understand the source of the anxiety in themselves and in the people with whom they relate.
Do you wish there were more hours in the day to get things done?
Book Club for Leaders
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One of our goals as a leading childcare training provider is to provide industry professionals with the advice and resources they need to continue learning and growing, becoming the best they can be in their careers.
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December
Get ready for a mind-blowing journey into the world of fatherhood with Do Fathers Matter? This award-winning book by journalist and proud papa of five, Paul Raeburn, is about to blast away all those old myths and stereotypes of clueless dads and stern patriarchs.
Raeburn dives deep, conducting his own personal investigation into the cutting-edge scientific research that has often been overlooked when it comes to fathers. From the findings of neuroscientists and geneticists to animal behaviorists and developmental psychologists, he uncovers secrets about the parent we've been missing out on.
Prepare to be amazed as Raeburn takes us through the incredible stages of fatherhood. It turns out there are profound physiological connections between children and their fathers, starting right from conception and carrying all the way through adolescence and into adulthood. And here's the kicker – these connections can even make us better parents ourselves!
Raeburn doesn't just stop there. He brilliantly shows us how the role of a father is unique and distinct from that of a mother. It's time we embrace the significance of fathers in the lives of young people, no matter our family structure. Trust me, this book is absolutely engrossing and eye-opening!
So get ready for a revolution in your perspective on fatherhood. Do Fathers Matter? will challenge everything you thought you knew and change the way we view dads today. Buckle up, because you're in for an unforgettable ride!
Explore this ultimate business guide that dives deep into the world of workplace diversity and introduces groundbreaking ideas on how to harness its full potential. It's like this Chinese children's parable: the loudest duck is the one that gets shot, right? And in America, we've all heard that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. These cultural teachings show us that different cultures have different values, which often translate into different ways of doing business that might give certain cultures an advantage while leaving others behind.
But here's the thing, "The Loudest Duck" is not just a captivating tale about diversity – it's a game-changing resource for managers, business owners, team leaders, and employees who want to conquer the challenges of today's dynamic and diverse workplace. It's not just about accepting others – it's about creating an environment where everyone is on a level playing field, and where every single person can bring their best selves to the table.
Get ready to unlock the full potential of diversity and build an organization that thrives on the strength of its diverse workforce.
Get this book here.
October
Get ready to rev up your work culture game, spark up your team spirit, and watch your business grow like never before!
Evidence shows culture drives fiscal performance. It’s no secret that a toxic work culture can drive away employees and drive down profits. Creating a dynamic work culture that promotes both employee and business growth is key to ensuring an organization’s success.
With Great Mondays, you'll discover a secret formula to create a workplace culture that's both fun and successful.
Get this book here.
September
Free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports, and passive, electronic entertainment. While people worry children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant, explicit learning or using the latest "educational" games, David Elkind's The Power of Play reassures us that unscheduled imaginative play goes far in preparing children for academic and social success.
Through expert analysis of the research and powerful situational examples, Elkind shows that, indeed, creative spontaneous activity best sets the stage for academic learning in the first place: Children learn mutual respect and cooperation through role-playing and the negotiation of rules, which in turn prepare them for successful classroom learning; in simply playing with rocks, for example, a child could discover properties of counting and shapes that are the underpinnings of math; even a toddler's babbling is a necessary precursor to the acquisition of language.
An important contribution to the literature about how children learn, The Power of Play suggests ways to restore play's respected place in children's lives, at home, at school, and in the larger community. In defense of unstructured "down time," it encourages caregivers to trust their instincts.
Get yours here.
August
Learn to unlock the potential of your employees and colleagues with this definitive resource for people management.
This book provides readers with a powerful framework in which to develop high-performing teams, increase employee motivation, and use data to build an inviting and effective company culture.
Get yours here.
July
This book introduces a powerful planning process called the Six-Step Process that will help any person or team navigate change, create solutions, and develop an actionable plan. A person can take any challenge or opportunity and use the Six-Step Process to create a clear path forward.
When challenges arise, most people start with the problem, which is the exact wrong place to start. Instead, the Six-Step Process will shift the focus away from the problem to the best starting point – the vision!
Then, in the subsequent steps of the Six-Step Process, you will develop a clear action plan to help you achieve your vision.
This easy-to-use process has helped hundreds of people and organizations achieve massive results.
Get yours here.
June
“People are a company’s most important asset. Successful Onboarding makes the case for the importance of effective onboarding in setting up employees for success.” - Stephen Squeri, Group President, Global Services and Chief Information Officer, American Express Company
Fact: One third of all external hires are no longer with the organization after 2 years. What can you do about it?
In a word: onboarding; although poorly understood, subject to narrow definitions, and with limited best practice understanding or management rigor. Consultants Mark Stein & Lilith Christiansen have worked with leading companies on it, and they’ve synthesized their work into a ready to use system.
Through the teachings in this book, you can:
- Rewrite the employer-employee compact, to everyone’s advantage
- Reduce time-to-productivity, while increasing the level of productivity and retention
- Make improvements at the systemic level, with gains realized with regularity
- Enroll new hires in your company’s strategic plan
- Rewrite the employer-employee compact, to everyone’s advantage
- Reduce time-to-productivity, while increasing the level of productivity and retention
- Make improvements at the systemic level, with gains realized with regularity
- Enroll new hires in your company’s strategic plan
This book provides a business case, a systemic approach to the entire process, and instructive inside stories from Apple, Starbucks, Netflix, Microsoft, Baird, Bank of America, John Deere, and dozens of other industry leaders.
Get this book here.
May
Your attitude makes or breaks you in life. We all have attitudes that are toxic and damaging to our lives, and we all have healthy attitudes that help us to experience life in full.
Have you ever wondered what the worst, most toxic attitudes are? Have you ever wondered what the best, most life-enhancing attitudes are?
Wonder no more. This book will help you better understand the good and the bad when it comes to the attitude you carry into each day. Far too often, we focus on changing our circumstances as the best way to improve our lives.
While that's all well and good, changing your attitude for the better is far more important than changing your circumstance in life. We don't need an attitude adjustment, we need an attitude overhaul. Read this book - it will help you do just that.
Get this book here.
April
Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.
This book reveals the essential qualities of inclusive leaders.
The authors discuss the personality traits these leaders share and detail how to develop what they call the five disciplines of inclusive leadership: building interpersonal trust, integrating diverse perspectives, optimizing talent, applying an adaptive mindset, and achieving transformation.
Get this book by clicking here.
March
In this book, early childhood entrepreneurs Carrie Casey and Kate Woodward Young share their 20+ years of practical tips, tools, advice, and hard-won experience in the field they love with those ready to become successful and effective administrators.
Discover how to train and retain an amazing staff, achieve and maintain full enrollment, network well within the community, build and stick to a realistic budget, and more.
To order this book, click here.
February
This book offers valuable principles to those who are hungry to understand the source of the anxiety in themselves and in the people with whom they relate.
Readers will be empowered to take back control of their lives and lead in mature and vibrant ways.
Click here to get this amazing book.
January
Do you wish there were more hours in the day to get things done?
Within the pages of this book, you will learn:
- To uncover the key skills and attributes needed for a dynamic approach to your work, life and your team
- To explore which habits currently hinder or help you and how they impact your workload and team relationship
- To discover tools that can amplify your productivity and bring new levels of abundance into all aspects of your life
- The steps to engage and empower your team to truly drive performance and ramp up their achievements
Ultimately, discover how to get back many of the precious 86,400 seconds which make up each day.
