New Business Book Summary Available for On Fire at Work

In On Fire at Work, veteran workplace researcher Eric Chester explains why and how a company’s culture is the determining factor in attracting, developing, and retaining high-quality employees. Companies voted as “best places to work” are achieving this designation by supporting seven cultural pillars: compensation, alignment, atmosphere, growth, acknowledgment, communication, and autonomy. On Fire at Work provides a roadmap for company executives to follow in establishing a culture that not only retains great employees, but also elicits their best performances, keeping them engaged and happy at work.

New Business Book Summary Available for Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss

Although talent is the greatest asset of any company, most managers do not try to keep their key players from leaving until it is too late. In Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss, Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans provide a comprehensive playbook to conducting stay interviews, a managerial tool essential to both retaining talent and building more engaged, committed teams. By using stay interviews to both inform employees that they are highly valued and to learn what it will take for them to stay with their companies, managers can retain their most talented team members for the long term.

Mass Career Customization

The path to success in the corporate world looks very different than in the past. Organizational structures have changed; they have become flatter, resulting in fewer management positions. Employees’ views about work-life balance have also changed, and people need varying degrees of job flexibility at different times of their lives. One potential solution to these challenges is for organizations to shift from a rigid corporate ladder for advancement to a corporate lattice where employees can move laterally and up and down over time. In Mass Career Customization, Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg describe why this model is better than traditional approaches, like flexible working arrangements, and discuss what steps companies can take to adopt the Mass Career Customization (MCC) framework.

Many people are frustrated with their work. They feel their talents are untapped and consequently they are unable to move forward in their careers. While professional coaching could help, it is a luxury too expensive for the majority of people. In Take Charge of Your Talent, Don Maruska and Jay Perry make talent development easy and accessible to people of all backgrounds. By combining their years of professional experience as CEOs and professional coaches, they offer three keys and various exercises to help people not only unlock their talents but elevate their work performances and overall satisfaction if life.