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Re-Engage: How Americ's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort Through Extraordinary Engagement [NOOK Book]
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"What makes a company a great place to work? The very same factors that make a company well organized, efficiently managed, and financially successful. That's what engagement experts Leigh Branham and Mark Hirschfeld discovered when they took a closer look at a famous national survey of the Best Places to Work, conducted yearly by Quantum Workplace, Omaha, Nebraska." "Employee engagement" is not just the latest buzzword in management circles - it's a critical factor in a company's overall success. More important, the authors isolated six universal "drivers" that the Best Places to Work share - six simple but essential ways to re-engage your workers, your managers, and your leaders on every level, at every opportunity." Re-Engage is filled with real-life stories of the most common successes and failures in the workplace today. From the secretaries who secretly despise their bosses to the middle managers who feel caught between their executives' expectations and their subordinates' realities to the leaders who have taken that extra step to engage their employees - and have received extra effort in return.
Ch. 1 Employee Engagement: The Key to Building a Best Place to Work 1
Ch. 2 Crosswind Factors: Why It's Harder Than Ever to Build a Winning Workplace 23
Ch. 3 What Separates the Best from the Rest? Six Universal Engagement Drivers 49
Ch. 4 Steering the Ship and Inspiring the Crew: Trust and Confidence in Senior Leaders 65
Ch. 5 The Real Job of Managers: Keeping Employees Aligned and Engaged 105
Ch. 6 The Power of "We" to Magnify Engagement: Building Team Effectiveness 143
Ch. 7 Job Enrichment and Professional Growth: The Present and Future Driver 181
Ch. 8 The Never-Ending Source of Engagement: Valuing Employee Contributions 219
Ch. 9 Employee Well-Being: The Ultimate Benefit 249
Ch. 10 Self-Engagement: The Employee Side of the Equation 287
Ch. 11 Becoming a More Engaged Workplace 317
Notes 339
Index 345
Overview
"What makes a company a great place to work? The very same factors that make a company well organized, efficiently managed, and financially successful. That's what engagement experts Leigh Branham and Mark Hirschfeld discovered when they took a closer look at a famous national survey of the Best Places to Work, conducted yearly by Quantum Workplace, Omaha, Nebraska." "Employee engagement" is not just the latest buzzword in management circles - it's a critical factor in a company's overall success. More important, the authors isolated six universal "drivers" that the Best Places to Work share - six simple but essential ways to re-engage your workers, your managers, and your leaders on every level, at every opportunity."