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More than 11,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you August’s top three business books recommended to our readers.

Good health is about so much more than breaking bad habits or not being sick—it should be about helping people be their best selves in all aspects of their lives, both in and out of work.

Not everyone is able to let go of a person’s bad behavior or insensitivity. It’s like a tornado that moves on and fizzles out on its own, but leaves a path of destruction everyone else has to deal with.

As artificial intelligence-enabled entities gain ascendency in the workplace, it becomes incumbent on progressive organizations to muster the courage and honesty to timely redefine/adjust career paths and communicate actual progression prospects to their workforce in advance.

If you are dealing with people on any level, customers or co-workers, you must have the skills or at least learn the skills to interact with them. When we take the human element out of training, we lose that connection we desire as people.

It is not the fleeting experience of “fun” that drives engagement and value when playing video games, but feeling the game specifically fulfills the psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and mastery. These also can be applied to learning.

Some 80 percent of the content is taught by executives within the company. Each of the six workshops has a theme and runs 2.5 days.

WCCO Belting’s training program has not only increased employee retention and strengthened its culture, but also improved product quality and streamlined the company’s manufacturing processes.

What if we could take a fresh look at our businesses and our lives, reconsider what is really important, and start to focus our time and energy on those things that matter?

The workforce is changing dramatically, leading to a future that will look very different than today.