Recommended Books
The ATHR Team has a few great books on their reading list. We thought we’d share.
We’d also love to hear what you’re reading. Reach out and let us know!
50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People
by Gillian Jones / Ro Gorell
Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
by James Collins / William Lazier
Catalytic Coaching: The End of the Performance Review
by Garold Markle
Communication Skills for Managers
by Janis Fisher
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
by Kerry Patterson / Joseph Grenny / Ron McMillan / Al Switzler
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson / Joseph Grenny / Ron McMillan / Al Switzler
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions
by John C Maxwell
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
by Jim Collins / Morten Hansen
Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from the OD Network
by OD Network / John Vogelsang PhD
HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Leadership
by Harvard Business Review
How Performance Management is Killing Performance–And What to do About It
by M. Tamara Chandler
The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy
by Mark A. Huselid / Brian E. Becker / Richard Beatty
How the Best Leaders Lead
by Brain Tracy
How to Measure Human Resource Management (3rd Edition)
by Jac Fitz-enz / Barbara Davison
HR Analytics Handbook
by Laurie Bassi
HR Metrics The World Class Way
by John Sullivan
HR Metrics ToolKit – 2009
by HR Performance, Inc
HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In (Business Skills and Development)
by Dave Ulrich / Justin Allen / Wayne Brockbank / Jon Younger / Mark Nyman
Investing in What Matters
by Scott Mondore / Shane Douthitt
It’s the Way You Say It: Becoming Articulate, Well-spoken, and clear
by Carol A. Fleming
Lean HR
by Dwane Lay
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
Magic Numbers for Human Resource Management: Basic Measures to Achieve Better Results
by Hugh Bucknall / Zheng Wei
MAGIC: Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement
by Tracy Maylett / Paul Warner
Managing The Professional Service Firm
by David Maister
Mastering Communication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence (Business Books)
by Ethan F. Becker, Jon Wortmann
Mastering Professional Services
by Thomas Lah
Metrics You Can Manage for Success
by Lynn Hunsaker
Our Iceberg is Melting
by John Kotter
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
PHR Exam Practice Questions: PHR Practice Tests & Review for the Professional in Human Resources Certification Exams
by PHR Exam Secrets Test Prep Team
PHR Exam Secrets Study Guide: PHR Test Review for the Professional In Human Resources Certification Exam
by PHR Exam Secrets Test Prep Team
PHR / SPHR Professional in Human Resources Certification Study Guide
by Sandra Reed / Anne Bogardus
Results: How to Assess Performance, Learning, & Perceptions in Organizations (A Publication in the Berrett-Koehler Organizational Performance Series)
by Richard A. Swanson / Elwood F. Holton III
Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It
by Cali Ressler / Jody Thompson
Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It
by Cali Ressler / Jody Thompson
Strategic Management: Concepts
by Frank Rothaermel
The Balanced Scorecard
by Robert S. Kaplan / David P. Norton
The Chief HR Officer: Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
by Patrick M. Wright / John W. Boudreau / David Pace / Libby Sartain / Paul McKinnon / Richard Antoine
The Effective Manager
by Mark Horstman
The Elements of Great Managing
by Jim Harter / Rodd Wagner
The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional
by Sharon Armstrong / Barbara Mitchell
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni
The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
by Dave Ulrich / Mark Huselid / Brian Becker
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
by Roger Connors / Tom Smith / Craig Hickman
The Strategy Focused Organization
by Robert S. Kaplan / David P. Norton