Human Resource Development and Organizational Behavior

This book explores the intersections between leadership and velocity (the speed of now) to identify key leadership competencies needed for the 21st Century. We offer a set of ten competencies that may serve as a foundation of effective leadership that emerged from our experiences, interviews with 30 leaders, and research. These competencies may be especially timely in the midst of the global COVID-19 crisis and the need for effective leadership at all levels. We can see both the critical need for these competencies as well as the stark contrasts in practice — those leaders who are rising to the moment and others whose lacking is disappointingly notable. We hope this book may enable leaders to establish their leadership brand and enhance their leadership practices.

The 360 Degree CEO provides the tools and insights to successfully navigate your personal and professional journeys while, elevating your health, your relationships, your results, and your organization's performance. Where are the courageous and CEOs, leading with integrity and generating notable business returns? This is the question Lorraine A. Moore wanted to highlight-for herself and her clients. This book provides an amalgamation of lessons from Moore's work with some of the best leaders in Fortune 1000 companies, privately held rms, mid-cap businesses, and not-for-profits. Drawing on real-life examples in her work with executives and boards of world-class technology firms, banks, credit unions, professional services, mining, retail, healthcare, energy/oil and gas, and more, Moore highlights the industry agnostic every leader can adopt. The 360 Degree CEO provides the tools and insights to successfully navigate your personal and professional journeys while, elevating your health, your relationships, your results, and your organization's performance.

In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility. In case you were not aware, research focusing on both Canadian and U.S. companies shows that a whopping 98% of people polled have experienced uncivil behavior on the job. And, according to the fourth annual study on Civility in America: A Nationwide Survey, conducted by global public relations firm Weber Shandwick and public affairs firm Powell Tate in partnership with KRC Research, civility in America continues to erode. This year's study found that 70% of the Americans believe incivility has reached crisis proportions. Alarmingly, 81% of the Americans think that incivility is leading to an increase in violence at work. Notably, 80% of the people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Increasingly, people are choosing employers who understand that civility is good business. In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility.

This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Disruption is happening everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. It is happening at a scale and speed that is unprecedented in modern history, impacting diverse industries, from financial services to retail, media, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing, education, professional services, and life sciences. Leaders are finding it challenging to navigate the near-insurmountable challenges resulting from the impact of these disruptive events on their organizations. The right leadership is critical for organizations to thrive in a disruptive business environment. How should we define leadership in such an environment? Are the current leadership practices and competencies still relevant in the face of such disruption? What are the attributes of a "disruptive digital leader"? How can leaders set themselves up not only to survive but also to thrive in navigating the challenges of disruptive events and crises? This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0). The book also examines the fundamental qualities of disruptive leadership that would distinguish successful leaders as they guide their organizations through the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the digital transformation at the workplace.

In Lean on Civility: Strategies for Changing Culture in Manufacturing Workplaces, the authors explain how incorporating civility can drive success in your business. As a key component of workplace training, civility can have a significant impact on workplace culture and also increase measurable outputs related to continuous improvement-including but not limited to quality, efficiency, and cost. When organizations are deliberate and strategic about increasing supervisors' and managers' civility competencies in four key skill areas, they experience almost immediate improvements in interpersonal relationships, communication, morale, retention, trust, and productivity. Lean on Civility: Strategies for Changing Culture in Manufacturing Workplaces offers a practical tool kit-complete with strategies and tools (like the Masotti Feedback Method)- that you can take back to your workplace and implement immediately.

This book is about talent, strengths and positive psychology. Everyone is naturally talented in certain areas and if we get the opportunity to use our talents at work and develop them into strengths then we can work better, faster and far more productively. Bees search for pollen and they find it in the beautiful, successful, growing things around us: flowers. Flies search for rotting trash, bacteria and ugliness. Do you want to go through life like a fly or like a bee? These pages present the overwhelming scientific evidence that strengths-based leadership and collaboration lead to more productivity, more innovation, better well-being at work, lower absenteeism, and better health. Learning to recognize your talents, leverage them into strengths and, mitigate your weaknesses will change the way you and your colleagues work.

This book is for anyone on the pointy part of the organizational pyramid, whatever your title is. Every leader and organization is unique. But new CEOs often share many experiences, situations, and decisions. This book shines a light on those and illustrates the fundamental principles that will guide a new CEO through them. The Successful New CEO is organized into four parts: • Becoming an Executive: Leaders can only lead out of who they are. How do you become the kind of person who successfully and gracefully inhabits this role? • Seven Essential Executive Skills: The skills that earned you the role may not be what you need in that role. What are the critical leadership skills that become even more important as a CEO? • Leading Your Leadership Team: CEOs head up leadership teams. How do you lead a confident, capable leader? How do you build a team out of leaders? • First Things: Where do you start? How do you quickly build credibility and engagement? What is too fast or too slow? The Successful New CEO will help you quickly gain the confidence of others, successfully address the inevitable issues you will discover, score early wins, and set the course for a fruitful future.

The world of work is undergoing the most significant change since the Industrial revolution. Cognitive A.I. is driving world change faster than at any time in history. There are massive advantages for employers who act and act quickly. At precisely the same time, COVID has been a wake-up call. Organizations have discovered that they employ too many people, and the realization — many can be more productive working remotely. Productivity increases, reduction in office space and management are all being actioned through home working. A significant study on Homeworkers indicates that worldwide, 1 in 5 will be working from home. Already many Global companies have announced this year plans to reduce office space by 40%. Productivity results that have been realized from remote working have exceeded expectations, which will accelerate. This innovative book will guide you through A.I., how it will affect employment and existing processes, and what the employer and employee can expect in the new and rapidly changing world of work.