The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone

By Shawn Murphy

Book Overview

While you can't personally transform the corporate culture, you can influence the workplace climate and create meaningful and lasting change. Supported by the latest research, this eye-opening book argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment.

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? Advocating a steward model of management, The Optimistic Workplace reveals how to:

Explore personal and organizational purpose--and align them for astonishing resultsOvercome resistance and skepticismBuild camaraderie and deepen loyaltyIncrease intrinsic motivationHelp your team find meaning in their workIdentify goals collaboratively and track progress

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. The Optimistic Workplace 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814436196
• ISBN13: 9780814436196
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher