Workplace Book Club

I’m starting a workplace book club.

The objectives:

• provide opportunity for professional growth (informal learning)
• apply learnings to our workplace environment
• develop a supportive peer network

The goal is have the club up and running in January with one book (or article series) a month.  Topics of relevance for the position include; conflict management, writing, decision making, leadership, creative problem solving, communications, career growth and industry (financial services) knowledge.

Potential Reads:

Thus far the list contains the titles:

• The Plain English Approach to Business Writing by Edward P. Bailey Jr.
• Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them by Holly Weeks
• Complaint Management: The Heart of a CRM by Wolfgang Seidel and Bernd Strauss
• “I Love You More Than My Dog,” Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad by Jeanne Bliss

• Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
• X Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Succeed by Deborah Ancona

• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel Pink

• Influencer: the Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson and more (The book Crucial Conversations by the same authors have been popular at work)
• Socialnomics:  How Social Media Transforms the way we Live and do Business by Erick Qualman

• It’s Your Ship: Managment Techniques for the Best Damn Ship in the Navyby Capitan Abrashoff

If you have suggestions for good reads that on one of the following: conflict management, writing, decision making, leadership, creative problem solving, communications, career growth or the financial services industry- please contribute!  I’ll keep you posted on the group learning experience.