**Business Book Awards 2023: People, Culture & Management Book of the Year**
The way we value and manage time at work is broken.
Businesses are squandering time when making decisions, delivering work and managing people. Employees are rewarded for 24/7 availability, speed of response and hours worked.
The results are clear: low productivity; high stress and burnout; falling retention; and stalling diversity.
The Future of Time reveals how ‘re-working’ time – transforming organizations by adopting positive time practices – can help you build a more diverse, engaged and productive workforce.
- Diagnostics to quickly assess the ‘time defects’ damaging your business
- Compelling evidence, case studies and strategies to ‘re-work’ time successfully
- Timelines and tools to bring about fast, effective change.
Helen Beedham, MA Cantab, speaks, consults and leads research on how to create more inclusive, productive workplaces where everyone can flourish. For the past 25 years, as management consultant then chair of a City-wide professional network, she has led change programmes for FTSE 100 businesses and regularly brought together Heads of HR, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing to exchange market-leading practices.
Being good at your job is a great way to start your career. But to fulfil your potential and get more senior roles, you need more than technical expertise.
Joanna Gaudoin has helped thousands of bright, capable professionals master the essential skills that will take them to the next level of their careers. From making a good impression to dealing with difficult people, from building external relations to acing your online presence, here are all the skills you need to get that promotion – in just 6 minutes!
Soothe your child’s anxiety and help them to develop emotional resilience for the future. The number of children suffering from anxiety is on the rise and most parents will readily admit that they feel ill prepared and lost for words when it comes to supporting their child’s emotional wellbeing. Author Alicia Eaton is a Harley Street practitioner with over 15 years’ experience of helping children to feel more confident and overcome feelings of anxiety. As she explains, nearly all children will sustain bumps and bruises on the outside of their body so it’s only natural that they’ll also pick up a few on the inside, in the form of anxiety and worries. Learning how to tackle these quickly, stops them from turning into much bigger problems later.
Whether your child has a fear of dogs, spiders, dentists or injections, struggles with school, performing on stage or sleeping at night, this book will teach you the simple solutions every parent needs to know. When your child feels happy, you’ll feel happier too.
Discover the ten ancient principles for more peace of mind in your daily life. Understand why you behave and think as you do, and how to make the changes that will transform your day-to-day experience.
With a down-to-earth approach and real-life examples from business and personal life, this book shows you how to make your mind stronger – and, ultimately, to make your life lighter and less stressful – by bringing yoga philosophy into your everyday.
This is no stuffy philosophical book. Rachel Bonkink drank too much, worked crazy hours, went for the money and always wanted more: yoga philosophy transformed her life, and it can transform yours too.
Collaborative Creativity is a powerful methodology for groups that uses short bursts of creative challenges to help people go beyond rational/conscious thinking and uncover, with constructive consequences, the emotional/irrational sphere that influences behaviour. It was developed by Peter Comber specifically for the complex environment of the healthcare industry, and this how-to manual for managers of healthcare companies offers practical advice on how to employ creative processes in their sector.
- Uncover your inherent mastery
- Take charge of your life; step into your true power
- Run your mind like a master; claim your higher gifts
Have you been on your path of personal transformation and spiritual growth for a while now, worked through your old fears and doubts, and learned the lessons of life? Now you are ready for the great work – that of Mastery.
The Foundations of Mastery takes personal development to a level of self-mastery. Drawing on principles of esoteric psychology, spirituality, ancient wisdom and modern-day quantum physics, this book equips you to master your mind, body, energy, emotions and soul.
A practical, interactive guide, The Foundations of Mastery offers:
- powerful, yet simple practices, tools and visualisations for mental, emotional and spiritual empowerment
- the ‘how’ of the mastery mindset that empowers you to flow with life intuitively and create powerfully and with purposeful intent
- insight into the 12-Chakra System and how you can activate your higher chakras
- a guide to the Universal Laws and how to use them to grow in mastery
- transformational meditations with free access to audio downloads.
Be your own healer, grow in consciousness and master your ability to manifest abundance, happiness and fulfilment in your life.
Founded After Forty by small business expert Glenda Shawley takes you step by step from discovering your ‘why’ and vision to launching your business and keeping the momentum going. It covers finding the right business model and business fundamentals as well as practical considerations such as making the time for running a business.
Part 2 looks at the mechanics of starting up: legal considerations, identifying the target market, choosing the right route to market, developing the brand, making a profit, and mapping the customer journey.
Part 3 gets you started with marketing, staffing, managing the business and the launch and beyond.
The guidance in the book is supplemented with examples from existing business owners who didn’t always get it right first time. Each chapter finished with topics to think about as well as key actions that need to be taken.
There is an accompanying downloadable workbook which builds on the key activities in the book to help you create your own unique business plan.
What would it look like for you to live fully, with intention, integrity and purpose? How might you redesign your life to achieve that?
Eloise Skinner – author, existential therapist, teacher, dancer, model and entrepreneur – is on a mission to help people discover their purpose and live more fulfilled, satisfying lives. This is not a one-time job, it’s a way of life that will evolve over time – but it can start right now, in just 6 minutes…
The REAL University Challenge: Helping students to become flourishing life-long learners.
As a tutor you want to help students to flourish not only academically but in all aspects of their university lives: mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually. But with students reporting stress and anxiety at an all-time high, and academic staff under more pressure than ever before, you could use some help.
In this new, post-pandemic edition of the classic guide, Fabienne Vailes reveals how you can help your students develop a ‘tool box’ of well-being techniques that will support them through university and beyond, and ensure your own well-being at the same time. She finishes with thoughts on how universities can implement systemic changes that support flourishing at an institutional, not just at an individual, level.
Fabienne Vailes is an expert on emotional and mental well-being within the education sector. She is on a mission to change the face of education – embedding well-being into the curriculum to create an environment where both students and staff flourish and become empowered lifelong learners to succeed both academically and in the workplace.
**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**
To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders.
So they hire them. And then they fire them.
It’s the open secret everyone in the leadership industry knows but nobody is addressing: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations say they want leaders to be innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. Privately, conventional leadership culture wants nothing of the sort. Leaders deemed as ‘a bad culture fit’ quickly find themselves marginalized, ostracized, and even exorcised. The qualities that get them hired are the ones that get them fired. Yet, these rebels and nonconformists often embody the very leadership qualities that organizations so desperately need to navigate disruption and adapt to the “new normal” of constant change.
Radically refreshing and practical, this book identifies five leadership qualities (F.I.R.E.D. Leadership™) that are key to tomorrow’s leadership success and offers a step-by-step blueprint to show organizations how to integrate these five crucial qualities into their current leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes.
‘Exactly what we need to fix our broken leaders.’- Whitney Johnson
‘A necessary read for anyone wanting to lead bravely.’ John Spence
Leadership maverick Paul McCarthy shows organizations how to reframe how they view their troublemakers, agitators, rebels, oddballs and shit-stirrers – to see the hidden leadership qualities driving those behaviors, and why they need them so desperately.
