HR professionals are increasingly expected to understand and apply data analytics, but many don't know where to start. The Practical Guide to HR Analytics offers a clear, practical guide to understanding and applying data to real-world HR issues. From making the business case for analytics to launching an HR analytics function, the book walks readers through the forms, uses, and interpretations of data in an HR context. It covers essential topics like avoiding common pitfalls, visualizing data effectively and using storytelling to communicate findings. With straightforward language and actionable advice, it helps demystify analytics for professionals at all levels. Whether you're new to analytics or seeking to sharpen your skills, this is your go-to resource for data-driven HR.

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others. Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

"Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. The fifth edition of Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning discusses the main sources of English law and explains how to work with legal texts in order to construct credible legal arguments which can be applied in coursework, exams or presentations. This book: Discusses how to find and understand sources of both domestic and European Union Law. Develops effective disciplined study techniques, including referencing, general reading, writing and oral skills and explains how to make good use of the university print and e-library. Contains chapters on writing law essays, problem questions and examinations, and on oral skills including presentations and mediation skills. Packed full of practical examples and diagrams across the range of legal skills from language and research skills to mooting and negotiation, this textbook will be invaluable to law students seeking to acquire a range of discrete legal skills in order to use them together to produce competent assessed work"--