The Chief Learning Officer (CLO) book club houses books on a variety of topics such as leadership, management, development, L&D, strategy and more – each one carefully selected by members of our editorial board of learning and talent experts. Discover ways to improve your organization and professional career today by exploring this list of best selling titles.
The Trusted Learning Advisor
Keith Keating
Written by an author with over 20 years of experience in the industry, this book explains what skills are needed by L&D professionals to become strategic consultative partners to the business by driving value for the organization and unlocking human potential. Full of practical tips, tools, and advice, The Trusted Learning Advisor covers everything from strategies for developing key consultative skills needed to build trust and relationships with stakeholders, which is the foundational concept of a Trusted Learning Advisor, to identifying the L&D maturity level of an organization. There is also practical advice on measuring the value of learning and communicating this impact to the organization and connecting the learning strategy to the business strategy.
The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation
Kamales Lardi
In The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation, veteran emerging technology expert Kamales Lardi delivers an essential and practical exploration of the real-world implementation of digital transformation. The book teaches readers how to drive digital business transformation success by addressing a key element – the people side of transformation. This includes managing internal stakeholders, such as leadership teams and employees, as well as external stakeholders, such as customer, partners and supplier.
The author provides a proven digital business transformation framework that facilitates the successful execution of new digital solutions.
The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Business Performance
Ruth Gotian
High achievers share the same four attributes: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means. The key to their success is that they do all four of these things at the same time. Based on research and in-person interviews with astronauts, Nobel Prize winners, and Olympic champions, The Success Factor outlines the approach that individuals aspiring to improve their performance can adopt.
ReCulturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success
Melissa Daimler
ReCulturing is the playbook for building a business in which employees are clear on the why, what, and how they are working. ReCulturing is not a one-time change effort because culture is not something we ultimately have, but rather something we do. One of today’s most renowned thought leaders and practitioners on the issue, Melissa Daimler provides a modern definition of culture that is more of a verb than a noun. Culture needs to be reviewed consistently, just like strategy and purpose. Focusing on these three areas leads to higher performance and engagement.
The 12-Week MBA: Learn the Skills You Need to Lead in Business Today
Bjorn Billhardt and Nathan Kracklauer
The 12-Week MBA’s unique premise is that there is a core set of business skills that entrepreneurs and future leaders of organizations can learn and will need regardless of their industry, function, or level. Those core skills—value creation, people skills, and decision-making—can be learned in less time and at lower cost than in a traditional two-year MBA, where the typical content becomes obsolete by the time students have graduated.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
Grit, the Secret to Advancement: Stories of Successful women Lawyers
The Essential HR Handbook, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional
Rituals for Work: 50 Ways to Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, and a Culture that Can Adapt to Change
Courageous Cultures
Charting Change
The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers
Culture Rules
Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company
The Next Smart Step: How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization
Wired to Connect: The Brain Science of Teams and a New Model for Creating Collaboration and Inclusion
Creating Belonging: A Practical Guide to Accelerate Belonging in Organizations and Communities
Leadership Development
Bootstrap Leadership
When Women Lead
The Leadership Pipeline
Irresistible: The Seven Secrets of the World’s Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations
Coachability: The Leadership Superpower
How to Be an Inclusive Leader
I love it here
Leading the Learning Function
Actions Speak Louder: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace
The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
Doing Well and Doing Good: Human-Centered Digital Transformation Leadership
Results Revolution: Achieving What Matters Most Your Team, Your Company, Your Life
Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It: 8 Essentials to Enhance Your Leadership Impact at Work, Home, and Anywhere Else That Needs You
Learning Delivery
Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories That Train
The Blended Learning Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Lessons Learned
Design for How People Learn
The Modern Learning Ecosystem: A New L&D Mindset for the Ever-Changing Workplace
Think Again
The Extended Mind
Leading a Learning Revolution: The Story Behind Defense Acquisition University’s Reinvention of Training
Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Learn and Master Any Skill
Codevelopment Action Learning for Business: Co-create. Accelerate. Grow
The Business of Learning
Designing for Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM
Measurement
The Training Measurement Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Practical Approaches
Show the Value of What You Do: Measuring and Achieving Success in Any Endeavor
Training Impact Measurements: ROI of Complex Training Programs Made Simple
Measurement Demystified: Creating Your L&D Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy
Speed Matters: Why Best in Class Business Leaders Prioritize Workforce Time to Proficiency Metrics
Strategy
Hardwired to Learn: Leveraging the Self-Sustaining Power of Lifelong Learning
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Be More Strategic in Business: How to Win Through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions
Predictably Irrational
Your Brain at Work
Social Media Strategy: A Step-by-step Guide to Building Your Social Business
What I Really Meant to Say!
Who Killed Change?
The Business Acumen Handbook
How to Create a Winning Strategy
Wired to Become: The Brain Science of Finding Your Purpose, Creating Meaningful Work, and Achieving Your Potential
Learning to SOAR: Creating Strategy that Inspires Innovation and Engagement
Chief e-Learning Officer in the Era of Speed: Digital Learning Strategies to Speed Up Workforce Performance
Who Kidnapped Excellence?
You Got This!: A Straightforward, No-nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges
Designing Training to Shorten Time to Proficiency: Online, Classroom and On-The-Job Learning Strategies from Research
Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success
Talent Management
Design Thinking for Training and Development
People Processes: How Your People Can Be Your Organization’s Competitive Advantage
Dancing With the Talent Stars: 25 Moves That Matter Now
Chasing Stars
Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team
The Specialist Pipeline
Technology
Perspectives on Technology Skill Development
The Adventures of Women in Tech Workbook: A Life-Tested Guide to Building Your Career
Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate, and Get Work Done
L&D Playbook for the Digital Age
The Human Side Of Digital Business Transformation
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
Breakfast Club
Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company
When Women Rise
The Why Axis
Learning at Speed
Humble Inquiry
Work without Jobs: The new work operating System
Developing the Leader within You 2.0
The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning
The Power to Change
True North
Speed of Trust
The Making of a Manager
The Body Keeps the Score
Permission to Feel
Danger in the Comfort Zone
The Energy Bus
Limitless
The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce
How to Listen
Radical Collaboration
The Power of Strategic Influence
The Coaching Habit
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
Trust & Inspire
Can We Talk
Adaptive Space
Power of Habits
The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work
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