Our Bookshelf
Read any good books that our workplace learning community should know about? Here are some that ASTD Pensacola highly recommend! Click on the book icon to order immediately through ASTD National (where available) or www.amazon.com.
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears that Sabotage Client Loyalty
by Patrick Lencioni
Written in the same dynamic style as his previous bestsellers including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni illustrates the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business fable. He explains the theory of vulnerability in depth and presents concrete steps for putting it to work in any organization. The story follows a small consulting firm, Lighthouse Partners, which often beats out big-name competitors for top clients. One such competitor buys out Lighthouse and learns important lessons about what it means to provide value to its clients.
Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web
by Brian Solis
The guide for branding your business in the era of the Social Web, ENGAGE leads readers through the detailed and specific steps required for conceptualizing, implementing, managing, and measuring a social media program. Both small businesses and Fortune 500 companies will increase visibility over their competition, build communities of loyal brand enthusiasts, and ultimately increase profits.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip and Dan Heath
ASTD P'cola highly recommends this wonderful book to discover why we often fear change and how our rational and irrational minds tend to complicate our ability to alter our habits. Through a cross-section of excellent examples, you will find out why change is so difficult for some many people. Then you will become encouraged about modifying behavior both in personal life and at work. Today's business world is all about change.This book is interesting, entertaining and a must-read for business executive and anyone who just wants to move forward or change something in their lives!
Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy called "Don't Mark My Paper, Help me Get an A"
by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge
This first book is for anyone interested in leading a group toward being the "best they can be." In this book the authors highlight the importance of finding ways to "partner with your employees" so that they are really engaged in their work and committed to your company's bottom line. The concept of a year-round performance review system is so basic and make so much sense! Read this wonderful book to find out the details...
The New Social Learning
by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham
In this brand new publication, the authors explain why social media is the ideal solution to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face today, such as a widely dispersed workforce and striking differences in learning styles, particularly across generations. They definitively answer common objections to using social media as a training tool and show how to win over even the most resistant employees.
Coaching for Extraordinary Results
by Darelyn Mitsch
Do you want to increase productivity and positively affect your bottom line through effective coaching? Coaching for Extraordinary Results offers its readers an opportunity to tap into this extraordinary tool by describing approaches, processes, strategies, and models from organizations that have gone beyond what they thought was thought possible. These results include more meaningful work, higher productivity, the right people in the right jobs, people who are challenged to do their best, a leadership legacy, and a positive effect on the bottom line.
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