In Crazy Busy acclaimed psychologist Thijs Launspach examines why we often work ourselves to the bone and what we can do to prevent this. He explains how to cope with stress and create more peace and calm in your life. He draws on the latest scientific knowledge, the methods used by experts and the stories told by those who have learned the hard way what stress can do to both body and mind. All to provide you with the answer to the question: how can you free yourself from a life of stress?

A full diary and no time to think; the feeling that you are always playing catch-up and never quite hitting the mark: our lives today are almost invariably crazy busy. Being busy is one of the hallmarks of the modern era. But the pressure is taking its toll on us.

The number of burnouts has risen dramatically over the past ten years. In fact, it has now reached epidemic proportions: approximately one in seven of all workers suffers badly from stress or has been forced to take a break from work because of stress-related complaints. And even if you don’t reach the actual burnout stage, stress can still make your life a lot less enjoyable.

Why are our lives so hectic? Have we all become workaholics? Why are we so susceptible to FOMO (the Fear Of Missing Out)? And most importantly, what can you do to cope with the stress in your life and prevent a burnout?

• Do you find yourself rushing to get things finished more than once a week?
• Do others often offer you well-intentioned advice on ‘how to slow things down a little’.
• Do you ever suspect that the stress you feel prevents you from being as happy as you would like to be?
• Are you more addicted to your smartphone than you would care to admit? Is it the first thing you reach for when you wake up in the morning?
• Do you often find yourself longing to stop and take a break from it all?

If your answer to one or more of these questions is ‘Yes’, then this is the book for you.

Most organizations today strive for goals such as employee diversity, inclusive leadership, and younger and fresher ideas. But how do we get there?

In her trailblazing Reverse Mentorship program, world-renowned executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon creates a safe and engaging culture by having senior leaders learn from junior employees. While typical mentoring programs arrange for a senior manager to teach the more junior employee, Reverse Mentoring is the opposite: it's all about a leader leaning into their vulnerability, forming a relationship with an underrepresented employee, and amplifying the voice of marginalized people within the company.

Reverse Mentoring offers various tips to make reverse mentorship work. Gordon explores the power of uncomfortable and awkward moments becoming key points of transformation when people have to pause, reflect and assess their past behaviors and current assumptions which are at odds with the topic at hand. She ultimately reveals how bringing more humanity into our organizations allows us to see one another and ourselves in a radically new light.

In Tech-Led Culture, Duena Blomstrom highlights how you can discover the new innovations and technologies that can lead to meaningful and lasting change in your business. This book provides you with the insights, knowledge and confidence you need to improve your performance and ensure that your business thrives and grows in the increasingly innovative and competitive landscape.

Employees and teams are more disengaged and fragmented than ever; get ahead of the competition and attract new talent by becoming the exception. Tech-Led Culture is an essential companion for any leader or changemaker looking to implement and sustain change initiatives within their business which will lead to more productivity, greater innovation and better performance.

Many leaders are especially capable ‘left brain’ thinkers, a trait that has served them well in their careers, allowing them to build strong strategic, problem-solving and goal achievement track records. And yet the challenges facing today’s workplace – the rise of remote working, the evolution of AI, the need for more emotional connection, the drive for truly inclusive cultures – increasingly require different thinking using the ‘right brain’.

Executive Coach Yda Bouvier has distilled her 25 years’ experience helping leaders use their right brain into the inspiring new book, Leading with the Right Brain – the ultimate guide to activating right-brain thinking.

She breaks down the neuroscience behind how the left and right brain work, and provides case studies, techniques and tools that leaders, coaches, and employees alike can practice to engage their right brain, in order to see more, think differently and bring new insights, gain a better emotional understanding about ourselves and others and build stronger team connections – especially virtually – making remote working more fulfilling – activating the right brain is critical for our wellbeing.

The Digital Playbook: How to Win the Strategic Technology Game, is a no-nonsense guide on how technology can make you competitive – and how it can also undermine your very existence. It will make you rethink many of the so-called “best practices” that have wreaked havoc in some many companies for so many decades. The book reveals how it’s so easy to waste money on the wrong technology at wrong time with the wrong leaders.

The Digital Playbook tackles digital transformation in three ways – incremental, modernization and disruptive – and sets expectations about what’s realistic. He asks tough questions about investments in cybersecurity and how no company on the planet can avoid cyberattacks – even if they spend themselves to death on zero tolerance.

The Digital Playbook is a set of short, no-nonsense “briefings” organized around 10 themes grounded in reality, instead of relying on theoretical aspirations about what should be done. It’s a practical way to understand what’s going on in business-technology, what you need to know and what you need to do.

Organisations want to maximise performance and employees want to maximise their career success. These goals are not one and the same. The key to keeping and growing employees is to help them develop their careers in line with the needs of the business. This relies on open, honest and effective two-way conversations. However, managers and employees can find it hard to talk about career development.

Confident Careers Conversations, answers the big question of how to have engaging career conversations that empower employees to take ownership of their own development while providing them with the information and support they need.

Showing emotions at work is notoriously seen as ‘weak’ or ‘unprofessional’. But the pandemic threw this outdated view into sharp relief – revealing the need for human connection, in order for staff to feel supported, psychologically safe and valued in a constantly changing and uncertain workplace.

HumanForce, is the ultimate guide to harnessing the power of emotions at work. Grounded in the latest academic research, this book reveals why leaders must grow their emotional intelligence to boost productivity, retain top talent, and ensure healthy and thriving teams.

There are moments throughout our lives when our confidence and creativity can make all the difference. Discover how to transform your career and grow your network by finding success  In The Moment.

Every meeting, presentation and conversation is an opportunity to embrace your confidence and show your creative flair. With insights on collaboration, risk-taking and organization, this book arms you with a complete repertoire of powerful communication tricks and strategies.

Neil Mullarkey is both a communications expert and a well-known comedian. In his new book he shares how to improve your creativity, communication and confidence to navigate a better career path and improve your professional life.

Strategy, culture and customers are the key elements of any business. But to truly succeed, they need to be effectively built, refined and aligned.

Studies show that organizations which are highly aligned are 72% more profitable than their competition. The Alignment Advantage shows how you can achieve this through a practical and proven framework which can be adapted to all businesses, whether it's a small start-up, multinational organization or somewhere in between.

Arguing that Simon Sinek's "start with why" approach is compelling yet flawed and Peter Drucker's claim that "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is a myth, Richard Nugent creates a clear, accessible blueprint for a more successful, collaborative and efficient organization. Illustrated with fascinating case studies from the likes of LEGOLAND, Wagamama and The Empire State Building, The Alignment Advantage cuts through organizational silos and inter-departmental tensions to provide an aligned and strategic approach that will allow you to build your success, refine your processes and align your efforts to target your customers and clients.

Conversations: the heartbeat of our organisations. They help us to create, innovate, and effect change together, and they help us grow as individuals, communities, and organisations. Planned or incidental, conversations have the power to change our lives.

Right now, we’re at risk of losing the art of doing it well. We need to radically change how we talk to each other, to create workplaces where people feel they belong and can thrive.

Conversational Wisdom is the new book from communication experts Sara Hope and Emily Cosgrove. Their aim is to help others to grow their conversational wisdom to create more inclusive and collaborative environments and to make work more meaningful.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is simple, but not easy and it doesn’t change overnight. The work required can seem overwhelming – how can anyone be an expert in lived experiences that you’ve never had?

In Conscious Inclusion: How to 'do' EDI one decision at a time inclusion expert Catherine Garrod says the secret is that it takes a village. Everyone has a part to play to help shift change, from the person with no line management responsibility to the network leader, the inclusion manager, and the leader who wants to leave a legacy. Change isn’t purely up to HR, or the person with inclusion in their job title. Instead, it is about building conscious inclusion into every decision made for colleagues, customers and even the wider community.

Unless you're consciously including people, you're almost certainly unconsciously excluding people. Discover 99 decisions and 5 simple habits for creating a more inclusive organisation, inside and out.

Rather than top-down change initiatives involving huge teams, Catherine advocates for combining skill and will to guide people in their everyday thinking. Then developing reporting to create social accountability and track departmental progress.

When every voice is heard, every person is empowered and everybody takes action, the outcomes are extraordinary.

Menopause Working, written by HR expert Cathy Hastie, helps women and employers to improve their understanding of the menopause and introduce changes that can help women thrive during the menopause transition in the workplace, and continue to make major contributions to their companies.

Written in a friendly, approachable style yet packed with insightful data, Menopause Working is a comprehensive guide that provides a wealth of information about managing the menopause in the workplace. Author, Cathy Hastie, draws on knowledge amassed during more than thirty years as a Human Resources practitioner and from her own experience of the menopause.

The book covers topics including:

• Managing menopause symptoms at work
• Rights and responsibilities
• Managing performance and promotion
• Workplace culture and change
  

Menopause Working is an essential, practical guide which provides everything an employer needs to know about managing menopause but had never thought of, or had dared to ask. It is also provides practical insights and information for those who are suffering menopausal symptoms to help them thrive in their mid-life careers.