The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone
- Length: 240 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publication Date: 2015-10-28
- ISBN-10: 0814436196
- ISBN-13: 9780814436196
- Sales Rank: #743784 (See Top 100 Books)
When it comes to work these days, we’re expected to do more with less–but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly low employee engagement numbers indicate otherwise. So, if pushing everyone harder isn’t the path to productivity, what is?
Supported by the latest research, this eye-opening book argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment. That’s good news for you as a manager. While you can’t personally transform the corporate culture, you can influence the workplace climate and create meaningful and lasting change.
Advocating a steward model of management, “The Optimistic Workplace “reveals how to:
- Explore personal and organizational purpose–and align them for astonishing results – Overcome resistance and skepticism
- Build camaraderie and deepen loyalty
- Increase intrinsic motivation
- Help your team find meaning in their work
- Identify goals collaboratively and track progress
And more Examples from companies large and small demonstrate how this people-centric focus ignites employee potential, increases innovation, and catapults the organization to new levels of performance.
Far from being a wish-upon-a-star discussion of workplace happiness, this book presents an array of surprisingly simple strategies as well as practical 30-, 60-, and 90-day plans designed to focus your actions and make employee optimism not just a worthy goal–but a real and measurable result.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: The Future of the Workplace
CHAPTER 2: Destructive Management
CHAPTER 3: The Power of Contagious Emotions
CHAPTER 4: The Downside of Optimism: Missteps and Excess
CHAPTER 5: Values-Based Leadership
CHAPTER 6: It All Starts with Purpose
CHAPTER 7: The Meaning Makers
CHAPTER 8: We Must Change the Way We Work
CHAPTER 9: Human-Centered Leadership
CHAPTER 10: Next Comes Trust: Creating Community
CHAPTER 11: The Cultivation of Optimism
APPENDIX 1: The Optimism Planner
APPENDIX 2: One-on-One Format
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