Braver Leaders in Action explains why it is vital for ordinary leaders to be brave in the context of unprecedented global challenges. The key message is that we must all step up and demand more from our leaders – we cannot and must not move backwards as the world is at a tipping point.

The book contains exercises and practical examples from experienced leaders to help you to grow your awareness and understanding, boosting your potential to be a braver leader and prompting reflection on your development in eight key areas. Each area explores the braver forms of personal and corporate leadership necessary for future leaders via four related “cornerstones” derived from literature reviews, discussions with leaders, and many years of developmental and coaching conversations.

Though it may be easy to understand the concept, performance management is notoriously difficult and anxiety-inducing to deliver in practice. Each member of a team brings their own ambitions, issues skills and desires. Just how do you keep everyone engaged, motivated and on task?

The Performance Management Playbook: 15 must-have conversations to motivate and manage your people aims to take the stress and the mistakes out of management.

The work of human motivation and engagement expert, Hedda Bird, this practical book takes readers step by step through key management tasks and responsibilities. It will help you move from anxiety-ridden one-off appraisals to more rewarding regular and meaningful conversations about performance.

This game-changing book:

• Provides practical tools, actions and conversation guides to help you handle poor performance, set targets, give feedback, set goals, motivate your team, develop yourself.
• Outlines how to interpret corporate strategies into effective team targets and action plans that actually get the results you want.
• Includes real word examples drawn from a mix of global and local organisations of all shapes and sizes and from sectors as varied as financial services, transport, central and local government, mining, healthcare and construction.

No matter the performance management challenge you face, help is at hand. This book makes it easy to dip in, find answers and develop great performance conversations with your team.

Most organisations and leaders do their best to be ethical and value based. With workplace policies and wellbeing initiatives designed to celebrate and create a ‘golden’ culture.

Healthy Leadership and Organisations: Beyond the Shadow Side reveals how too often workplace initiatives and policies overlook the fact that we all have a ‘shadow’ side and can, on occasion behave badly. Most of us indulge rarely or briefly, followed by remorse but sometimes these behaviours can become ingrained in organisational roles, and cultures causing untold damage to the business and people who work there.

Too often this tendency and behaviour is not named or acknowledged and inevitably interventions to improve wellbeing and change the culture fail as a result.

Clinical psychologist Anna Eliatamby’s game-changing book shows that only by acknowledging and tackling ‘shadow’ behaviours can a culture and workplace truly flourish. Included are perspectives, from other experts.

We need to deconstruct the past in order to understand the present – and everything from slavery to the ‘discovery’ of America has had a profound impact on the White thinking that still dominates today.

In his book, World Cup winning footballer and anti-racism activist, Lilian Thuram investigates how our past has impacted the present and examines how we can move forward inclusively in order to challenge White thinking.

In White Thinking, Thuram builds on academic research and his own personal experience to show the damage caused by racial thinking. He invites White people to take the unfamiliar step of considering their race, acknowledging that being White impacts the way they see the world.

Racism is seen across sport, education, politics and more – and Thuram includes examples from his time in the public eye as an international footballer to demonstrate what still needs to change. He presents a new way forward – one that involves acknowledging the past, addressing the way things are, and helping to create an inclusive future liberated from White thinking.