Book Club
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The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
Chapter 1: Transforming An Impossible SituationThe Three Laws of Performance will show you how companies, both large and small, in different countries and industries, are achieving breakthrough performance both at individual and corporate levels. When you apply The Three Laws of Performance, you can learn to rewrite your and the organization's future, elevating employee performance to unprecedented levels.
SilkRoad is pleased to offer a FREE copy of chapter one, "Transforming an Impossible Solution," which demonstrates how performance and how a situation occurs are always perfectly matched. By becoming aware of this and crafting the way you and your employees respond to one another, you can realize immense positive culture and performance changes. -
Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization
Chapter 1: The Business Case for Onboarding by: Mark Stein & Lilith ChristiansenSuccessful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization, enables you to build a business case for onboarding that will result in numerous gains for your business. Benefits from possessing a strategic onboarding program are not only seen at the organizational level, but at an employee level as well. With a structured program, employees will be more fulfilled, which will increase engagement, retention and productivity.
SilkRoad is pleased to offer a FREE copy of chapter one, "The Business Case for Onboarding," which builds a quantitative business case for the way organizations bring new hires into the fold. -
Employee Engagement: A Roadmap for Creating Profits, Optimizing Performance, and Increasing Loyalty by Brad Federman
Chapter 1: The Case for Employee Engagement: Connections Versus TransactionsEmployee Engagement outlines a comprehensive framework, language, and process that connect your company’s business strategy with its people strategy. Written by Brad Federman—a leading expert in the field of performance improvement—this research-based book clearly shows how top-level executives and HR management professionals can work together to enhance employee performance and ultimately help their organization reach its goals.
SilkRoad is pleased to offer a FREE copy of chapter one, "The Case for Employee Engagement: Connections Versus Transactions," which pinpoints areas where your company may need to improve upon its engagement efforts. -
Michael Moskowitz - A Practical Guide to Training and Development: Assess, Design, Deliver, and Evaluate
Chapter 1: In the BeginningIn A Practical Guide to Training and Development, author Michael Moskowitz provides a solid foundation of the entire training process through a comprehensive look at effective processes and best practices.
Enjoy your free chapter from Michael's book, “In the Beginning," where you’ll be introduced to the foundation of training and development and gain valuable insight on how to evaluate your company’s current efforts, things you can do to improve your training processes, and guidelines for creating an effective training and development environment to maximize employee performance!
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Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management: Third Edition, David A. J. Axson
Chapter 2: What Is Performance Management?In his book, Best Practices in Planning and Performance Management David A. J. Axson provides a complete framework for building best practice management processes. Fully updated to reflect the events of the global economic crisis, this book takes a serious look at the way companies plan and manage performance-from the role of accounting to the skills needed to be an effective manager-including new technologies, techniques and real time management processes.
Enjoy your free chapter from David’s book, "What is Performance Management," which takes an in-depth look at the elements of performance management and how you can better suit your practices to accommodate our ever-changing business environment. -
Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
Chapter 9: Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day OneAuthors George B. Bradt and Mary Vonnegut understand the difficulty of getting new employees up to speed quickly. Failure can lead to unfulfilled needs, unhappy recruits, and, ultimately, the failure to meet vital business goals. In this free chapter, the authors cover the logistics needed to make your new employees productive from the start in addition to helpful time-savers, such as using an online onboarding portal to automate administrative paperwork. This dynamic chapter is full of helpful, real-life examples, graphs and notes. Download today to take away key steps to accommodate a successful new hire onboarding process in two parts: through their work needs and their personal needs. It’s easier than you might think!
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Management Reset: Organizing For Sustainable Effectiveness
Chapter 11: Leading, Managing, and FollowingPlease enjoy this complimentary chapter of Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley's book "Management Reset." Management experts Edward E. Lawler and Christopher G. Worley have developed a set of management principles that enable organizations to be both successful and responsible. In Management Reset the authors state that existing command & control and high-involvement management styles depend too much on stable conditions and focus too narrowly on economic outcomes.
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Brand From the Inside: Eight Essentials to Emotionally Connect Your Employees to Your Business
Chapter 2 - Essential #2: CommitPlease enjoy this complimentary chapter of Libby Sartain and Mark Schumann's book "Brand From the Inside." In Brand from the Inside authors Libby Sartain and Mark Schumann bring years of experience and success to this game-changing guide to effectively branding your company, starting with your company's employees.
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Ties to Tattoos: Turning Generational Differences into a Competitive Advantage
Chapter 4: Rewarding the Things That MatterPlease enjoy this complimentary chapter of Sherri's book "Ties to Tattoos." Her book offers innovative ways to recruit, reward, manage, motivate, train, and retain, all within a generationally diverse workplace.
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Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage
Chapter 4: Managing TalentPlease enjoy this complimentary chapter of Edward E. Lawler's book, "Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage." We hope his valuable insight into the importance of a strong organizational focus on talent management resonates with you and provides you with the tools you need to start effectively attracting, retaining and managing your company's talent.
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Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business
Chapter 8: Next Steps for Companies and The "Glass House Generation"We are pleased to offer you a complimentary chapter of Socialnomics, where Erik Qualman elaborates on his ideas and shows how companies can take action and capitalize on social media while adapting to an ever-changing environment, and how that environment is shaping and improving job searching and recruiting practices. In the section of the chapter titled "You Don't Find A Job, It Finds You" Erik reveals the importance of social recruiting and how utilizing social media and social recruiting software in your talent acquisition efforts will continue to become a major driving force behind recruitment strategies.
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The Trophy Kids Grow Up: how the millennial generation is shaking up the workplace
Chapter 9: Recruiting in CyberspaceIn a world where our business environment is constantly evolving, SilkRoad understands the impact it has on your business and the importance of keeping up with those changes. We are pleased to offer you a complimentary chapter of Ron Alsop's book The Trophy Kids Grow Up, where Ron describes many of these changes and how they have influenced the approach that companies must take towards recruiting a new generation of professionals.
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Louder Than Words: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps that Drive Results
Chapter 4: Communication - The Cornerstone of an Engaged CultureSilkRoad technology has partnered with award winning speaker and thought leader Bob Kelleher, CEO of The Employee Engagement Group, to bring you a complimentary chapter of his newly released book, Louder than Words — 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results, outlining ten practical steps to help companies maximize employee engagement. In this complimentary chapter you'll learn key strategies to improve communication, at all levels, the foundation for employee engagement.