Barbara Mitchell, Managing Partner of The Mitchell Group, is a human resources and organization development consultant. She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to HR trends, recruitment, networking, retention, generations at work, and many other topics. Her passion is mentoring HR professionals to increase their effectiveness as business leaders in their organizations. Barbara co-authored The Big Book of HR which was published in January, 2012 by Career Press. She also wrote The Essential Human Resources Handbook and has contributed to three other business and human resource related books.

Managing people is the most challenging part of any leader's day. And that job certainly is not getting any easier. The Big Book of HR will provide any HR professional, manager, or business owner of any size organization the information they need to get the most from their talent. It is filled with information on everything from the most strategic HR-related issues to the smallest tactical detail of how to manage people.