Latest on leadership, personal development and HR
Read our latest features and articles on leadership, personal development and HR
How to banish the burnout blues
With Blue Monday upon us, experts offer tips on the best way to look after your mental wellbeing and beat the January blues.
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Five payroll changes to look out for
With (another) busy year ahead for payroll professionals, Ian Holloway picks out five developments that you need to know about and gives tips on how to manage them.
Supporting our public sector finance professionals
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ICAEW Academy
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A-Z of CPD courses by topic
Unlock your potential and keep up with your CPD requirements with our comprehensive range of courses. Choose from a variety of formats, including virtual classrooms and in-person classes.
ICAEW Essentials CPD
This year’s enhanced fully-virtual programme focusses key technical updates, across core topics, and is designed for advisors and industry teams alike.
ICAEW flagship events
ICAEW boasts an extensive portfolio of industry-leading conferences. These flagship events offer the opportunity to hear from and interact with all the key players in the industry. Find out what's coming up.
eBooks
The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.
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Work revolution: performance and leadership in the modern world
Designed to allow you to become more effective and more human at work, in both team and leadership positions.
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Executive guide to integrated talent management
Nineteen experts examine research-based theopries and current practices in highly successful enterprises, and explain how you can adopt effective, state-of-the-art methods to integrate your talent management functions.
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Practice of corporate governance
Every corporate entity has a governing body, whether it is called a board of directors, a committee, a council, or anything else. Many people, when appointed to the governing body of an organisation, have little idea of what to expect and what is expected of them. Even those with some experience find that the culture and leadership style of other governing bodies differ. The aim of this book is to help them understand and improve their controbution to the organisation and governing body they serve. It is a simple guide to the work of every board member.
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Get that job: interviews - how to keep your head and get your ideal job
A guide to preparing for the interview process, maintaining focus, handling difficult questions, and maximising your chances of landing that dream job. Includes sections on psychometric tests and negotiating a salary package.
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Talent management handbook: making culture a competitive advantage by acquiring, identifying, developing and promoting the best people
A guide to finding, developing and keeping the best talent. Contains material for identifying, recruiting, positioning, and developing highly qualified, motivated people to meet current and future business requirements.
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Employer's handbook 2017-18
The Employer's Handbook gives guidance for all small- to medium-sized employers in the UK, clearly identifying the legal essentials and best-practice guidelines for effective people management.
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Reach the top in finance: the ambitious accountant's guide to career success
A career development guide for finance professionals who want to know how they can succeed as trusted advisors, business partners, senior leaders and innovators, regardless of whether they work in industry, not-for-profit or public practice.
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Narrative and numbers: The value of stories in business
This book describes how storytellers can better incorporate and narrate data, and how investors, CEOs and FDs can calculate more imaginative models that withstand scrutiny. It uses case studies from Uber, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Vale to show the benefits, challenges and pitfalls of weaving narratives around numbers in the context of valuing business and making investments.
Business press
The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers'
terms of use.
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Three ways to lead learning
This article sets out three approaches which can help executives to select, develop, partner with, and be better leaders of learning for their companies.
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Time to double down on DEI
Paige Hagy examines the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the accounting profession, against the backdrop of a wider corporate pushback against these initiatives.
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Our favourite management tips of 2024
Ten tips to help you better manage yourself and your teams, from one of HBR’s most popular newsletters.
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How leaders can tap the power of vulnerability
This article discusses the importance of vulnerability in leadership, emphasising how it can help to build trust and connections. The authors point to real-life examples of leaders who have successfully embraced vulnerability to enhance their leadership effectiveness.
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What the best leadership teams do right
This article outlines three critical, highly interdependent roles that executive teams must play in order to have lasting impact on their company’s performance, culture, and ability to adapt. The authors provide tips as to how teams can play each of these roles successfully.
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6 essential leadership skills — and how to develop them
This article highlights six leadership skills that have become essential in the contemporary workplace, and provides practical advice on how to develop them.
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Shift your leadership from "power over" to "leading through"
An excerpt from a new book which calls for the end of the power-focused leadership model and the rise of a new approach — one which is caring, consciously seeks to do good, and mobilises
people to solve tough problems.
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Why leadership teams fail
Drawing on interviews with more than 100 CEOs and senior executives, this article outlines three main patterns of dysfunction within leadership teams. The authors aim to help leadership teams to diagnose their failings, and find ways to improve.
Articles and books in the ICAEW Library collection
The collection of the ICAEW
Library & Information Service includes a range of articles, books and reports on leadership, personal development and HR. Use the links below to see what we have available to request in our Library catalogue (Libcat).
Tolley's company secretary's handbook, 2024-25
An annual guide to all the basic duties of the company secretary. Serves as a working manual to the legal and procedural aspects of company administration, covering issues such as statutory accounts, company membership, corporate governance, employment law, health and safety, pensions, insurance and taxation.
Employment status: a tax guide, 5th ed.
This book guides the reader through the extensive and apparently contradictory case law on employment status. The special cases section includes information on the entertainment, sport and media sector, the farming sector, the legal sector, and healthcare professionals.
Tolley's employment handbook, 2024
This annual handbook provides practitioners with expert and up-to-date guidance on employment legislation and case decisions. The 2024 edition covers important recent developments such as the changes to the Working Time Regulations made in January 2024, and new legislation including the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023.
Finance aspects for medical doctors: a practical approach
Intended for use by GPs, practice managers and accountants, this book covers topics including employment and self-employment, tax saving measures, consultants earnings from private practice, pension contributions, IR35 and types of contracts.
The good governance guide to boardroom dynamics
This book looks in detail at issues that affect the board both on an individual and group level. Key topics such as board diversity, technical competence and personal characteristics are addressed, as is the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ), which is crucial to successfully working in a boardroom setting. As well as offering practical direction on how best to work with others and manage talent, it provides guidance on how to maintain personal resilience and develop behavioural agility.
TUPE: Brexit impact and other recent developments
Tolley's Tax Digest highlighting the principal developments in the law and practice involving the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations 2006. It follows the structure of TUPE, highlighting developments in the courts and tribunals according to the relevant parts of the TUPE Regulations. Appendix contains employment tax implications of a TUPE transfer.
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You can obtain copies of articles or extracts of books and reports through our document supply service.
External resources - Leadership
Acas guide on leadership
Guide from Acas designed to support people with leadership responsibilities at all levels of an organisation. Outlines the essential qualities, actions, considerations and implications associated with leadership using the Acas framework for effective leadership.
Investors in People leadership articles
Knowledge base of articles on leadership from Investors in People, covering topics such as motivating and empowering your team, democratic leadership and improving team wellbeing.
Leadership in the workplace
This factsheet investigates the concept of leadership and how it differs from management, the factors that can influence leadership development, and briefly examines how a principles-based approach to practice can support the development of leadership skills in people professionals.
The Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre (GLIC)
The GLIC is a research community which collaborates with industry and produces high quality research in the areas of gender, leadership and inclusion at work. The centre, which is part of Cranfield University's School of Management, is responsible for an annual benchmarking report,
The Female FTSE Board Report which has been published since 1999 and includes details of the number of female directors on FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 boards. The website provides information on the work of the centre, its research projects and published research papers.
