Karen Jaw-Madson      

Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @Work

Culture Your Culture taps into human-centered aesthetics, interdisciplinary principles in creativity and other research. This cutting edge approach partners workers and their managers in unparalleled ways to co-create strategies and distinguish interactions that are personalized, meaningful and highly impactful to the organisations within which they are intended-all while creating employee engagement.

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson    

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

The writers of the bestseller ReWork broadly dismiss the prevalent idea that it takes long hours, aggressive hustle, and “whatever it takes” to manage a profitable company today. With a bold, iconoclastic plan, they build on their message to establish the perfect culture of the organization, what they call “the calm company.” Their approach explicitly attacks the uncertainty, fear, and tension that plagues millions of workplaces and hampers billions of employees every day.

Jonathan Sposato    

Better Together: 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profits

Better Together presents a rare and surprising insight of the business world through the eyes of an insider looking in, examining how ALL forms of organisations can achieve a competitive edge by simply nurturing an equitable mix of men and women on leadership teams & employees. It focuses on effective and implementable strategies that can be used by any CEO, manager, or team leader to ensure that women succeed within the company, resulting in more profitable companies, happier customers, and more happy employees.

Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy    

No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed

The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. In order to be both happier and more successful, No Hard Feelings will help you find out the emotions to shed, which to hold to yourself, and which to share.
“Full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative, collaborative and productive” – Adam Grant, author of Originals.

Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall      

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

This is the real world of work, as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies About Work reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those who truly rely on you. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such free-thinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesion of your team, not the culture of your company, that matter most; that we should focus less on top-down planning and more on providing our people with reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people’s actions.

Nigel Guenole, Jonathan Ferrar & Sheri Feinzig      

The Power of People: Learn How Successful Organizations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance

Drawing on incisive case studies and vignettes, three experts will help you bring clarity and purpose to any labor analysis project, with robust research design and analysis to provide reliable insights. They show where to begin, where to find help for stakeholders, and how to gain “quick wins” to build upon. People’s power would be invaluable to HR executives who have developed or lead analytical functions; HR professionals who plan analytics projects; and any business executive who wants more value from HR.

Kim Scott      

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. This basic structure will help you develop stronger relationships at work and fulfill your three main responsibilities as a leader: creating a feedback culture (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and producing results that you’re all proud of.

Scott Carbonara      

Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement

Good managers realize that their job is to help workers do their best job, not just to issue orders. The Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement teaches leaders at all levels how to create partnerships that promote teamwork and drive real change in results. Briefcase Books, written specifically for today’s busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations.

Dave Gray     Sunni Brown   & James Macanufo    

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulemakers, and Changemakers

This book contains more than 80 games that help you break down walls, connect easier, and generate new ideas, perspectives, and strategies. The authors have established methods and strategies from some of the most creative practitioners in the world, whose teams are working together to make amazing things possible. The outcome of this book is a unique series of games that inspire interaction and innovation while adding more structure and clarity to the workplace.

Dave Gray    

The Connected Company

Connected companies have the advantage, because they learn and move faster than their competitors. While others work in isolation, they link into rich networks of possibility and expand their influence. Connected companies around the world are aggressively acquiring customers and disrupting the competition. In The Connected Company, there is an examination on what they’re doing, how they’re doing it and why it works. And it teaches you how your company can use the same principles to adapt and thrive in todays ever-changing global marketplace.

Kevin Sheridan    

Building a Magnetic Culture

Building a Magnetic Culture describes what engages and motivates workers and how to create an atmosphere where employees can excel. Drawing on years of research and real-world examples from his consulting experience, Sheridan gives you the techniques and tactics that you need to transform your business by building and maintaining a magnetic community. “This book is filled with practical ideas, illuminating case stories, and fresh perspectives to stir employee engagement in any organization.” ―Pamela Meyer, Ph.D., author of From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing through Dynamic Engagement

Jill Christensen    

If Not You, Who? Cracking the Code of Employee Disengagement

How do you inspire employees to get into the game and get off the sidelines? A validated four-step approach has been discovered by Jill Christensen to turn the disengaged employees into a cohesive high-performance team and the four leadership qualities you need to effectively lead the transformation in culture.

Patrick Lencioni  

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Kathryn Petersen, CEO of Decision Tech, faces the ultimate crisis in leadership: uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the whole company. Is she going to succeed? She going to be fired?  The truly gripping tale of Lencioni serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much confidence as wisdom does. Throughout the plot, Lencioni exposes the five disorders that go to the very center of why even the strongest teams always fight. He outlines a powerful blueprint and actionable steps that can be used to resolve and create a strong, efficient team to overcome these challenges.

Oscar Berg & Henrik Gustafsson  

Digital Workplace Strategy & Design

Why are workers slowed down by most digital work environments? Many companies have lost control of the digital workforce through organic development that is uncoordinated. Digital Workplace Strategy & Design is exactly what we recommend if you are looking for tools to get back into the driver’s seat and optimize value development. You will be prepared to master the modern workspace with its ready-to-use models and real-world samples. It will unleash the immense promise of a holistic, iterative and user-centred approach built on design thinking.

Shane Snow    

Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart

Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down–and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their pieces, so why is this pledge so much not met by collaboration?Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and enterprise, investigating what divides communities that actually get together from those that get along well.

Scott Warick    

Solve Employee Problems Before They Start: Resolving Conflict in the Real World

Famous speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warrick distils dispute resolution into only three easy steps of sensitivity, transparency, and conviction (and a touch of humour for good measure): Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR). As no one should use their EPR abilities until they are able to manage themselves. He also teaches you how to become an emotionally intelligent communicator, since mental discipline is a crucial component of dispute resolution.

Mason Donovan & Mark Kaplan    

The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off

The Inclusion Dividend offers a mechanism that benefits from an inclusive society to tap into the bottom line effect. Most leaders plan to be inclusive, but a focused reform initiative is required to transform that desire into a fully inclusive result for workers, clients, and other stakeholders. The authors illustrate the challenge and offer specific guidance about how to create the kind of meritocracy that can lead to a real dividend and drive firms ahead of their competition.

Robert Iger  

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger reveals the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees on The Ride of a Lifetime, and he discusses the values required for true leadership. “The ideas in this book strike me as universal” Iger writes. “Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.”

Jacob Morgan    Marshall Goldsmith    

The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate

There is no doubt that motivated workers work more, strive higher, and accomplish more. But without developing employee environments first, you can not produce employee engagement. It’s time to reconsider the approach and adopt a real-world structure that focuses on how to construct an organisation where individuals choose to operate. The Employee Experience Advantage tells you how precisely that can be achieved.

Neil Usher  

The Elemental Workplace: The 12 Elements for Creating a Fantastic Workplace for Everyone

Crafted from over 25 years of experience in transforming large-scale working environments for thousands of people all over the world, The Elemental Workplace shows you how to create a fantastic workplace. It focuses on 12 key elements and creating a change programme that builds a spirit of possibility – wherever you are, whichever sector you work in, whatever budget you have and whichever style of working you prefer.

Pamela Meyer  

From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement

From Workplace to Playspace, we’re talking about visionary, bold, inventive and persistent organizations that question long-standing preconceptions about the incompatibility of work and playroom. Organizations across industries and with wide-ranging activities learn every day that play space is the place they should and must build every day at work. If they are to think creatively, challenge old theories, adapt efficiently to the unexpected, and encourage everyone to work at the top of their talent.

Conclusion

Well, now that you have brushed up your knowledge about 21 Must-Read Employee Experience books, it’s time to design and implement the Employee Opinion Survey using the best EX software and services that help to manage your employee experience better.

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