Professional reading may not be a popular pastime in Spain, but it’s a tool for training and for keeping up with your field. Every year brings many updates and new approaches to dealing with people at work, and many of them come from adapting ideas in these professional books to a particular company.
In this ranking of professional books, we’ve brought together the most interesting facets that support the work of Human Resources. These aren’t employment regulations, but resources you can adapt to your company.
If you work in Human Resources, these are good reads for the summer, when you’re sure to have more time for reading. Pick one of them: they’ll help you.
The list
With the support of AgioGlobal, we’ve put together a list of titles covering every area of a company’s human resources: from people development and recruitment to team motivation and even leadership for team managers.
Here’s the list:
- The No Complaining Rule (in Spanish, Prohibido quejarse: una historia para dar energía a los equipos de trabajo)
- Emotional Intelligence
- What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement
- El talento está en la red (“Talent is in the network”)
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Asunto: confianza y compromiso (“Subject: trust and commitment”)
- No miedo (“No fear”)
- Construye tu sueño (“Build your dream”)
- Coaching inteligente (“Intelligent coaching”)
The topics
These are Spanish and international writers who haven’t won major literary prizes and haven’t been bestsellers, but their authors are well regarded in the world of work. Some of these books are written by Luis Huete, Spencer Johnson, Daniel Goleman, Jon Gordon and many others.
They haven’t discovered anything new, but they have set out guidelines for working with people inside an organisation. One of the most popular on the list is Who Moved My Cheese?, a short, simple book that, in the form of a fable, delivers a message about facing the different stages and processes of an employee’s working life.
Maslow’s pyramid talks about meeting survival needs on the way to success, and the popular book Construye tu sueño sets out the ten most important challenges in combining professional success with personal fulfilment, explaining and reasoning through the keys to knowing yourself.
Trust and commitment become the motto and the law of the relationship between company and employee. Nothing is gained without trust in the employee, and nothing is gained by the employee without the company’s commitment. José María Gasalla tells this in his book, which uses emails to demonstrate techniques for managing people and teams to improve how a company works.
Francisco Javier Galán writes about coaching through theoretical and practical reflections aimed at achieving a satisfying quality of life, based on a dialogue with the reader to improve their quality of life and increase their potential.
Lack of motivation is one of the most common problems in companies, and Jon Gordon addresses it in his book, telling the story of how a human resources department deals with a crisis at its company caused by a defective product, using the “no complaining” rule to turn a negative work environment into a more positive one.
Emotional Intelligence emphasises that the individual quotient determines our destiny, explores systems for measuring intelligence and offers a wide range of essential skills for mastering our emotions.
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