Engaging Teams

How to Use Social Wellbeing to Boost Performance, Retention and Culture
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-3986-1979-1
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Businesses are struggling with unprecedented levels of disengagement. According to Gallup, quiet-quitting costs organizations $8.9 trillion in lost productivity. Engaging Teams provides an effective solution to this problem. Large US organizations spend about $11 million a year on wellbeing initiatives, with virtually none making any real difference. Full of extensive analysis of academic research, business data and C-suite insights, Engaging Teamsdemonstrates how individuals, teams, organizations and leaders can strengthen engagement and get the best from their people. Offering practical guidance and actionable advice, this book provides a step-by-step path to tackling issues like leading through change, multigenerational communication and failures in critical thinking by building healthier and more successful team environments. A blueprint for leaders and HR professionals, the book uses real-world examples from companies including NASA, Microsoft, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Lenovo, Ikea and Qantas to show the value of skills in agile thinking, emotional intelligence, ongoing feedback and problem-solving. Accessible, clear-sighted and far-reaching, Engaging Teams is essential reading for anyone looking to drive motivation, productivity, resilience and retention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smallman, Nick

Parry, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction - Knowing your people
• Section - 01: Part One
• • Chapter - 01: For the love of work;
  • Chapter - 02: Wellbeing strategies that aren’t fit for purpose;
  • Chapter - 03: Managing our relationship with technology;
  • Chapter - 04: The impact of global threats;
  • Chapter - 05: A theory of social wellbeing;
• Section - 02: Part Two
• • Chapter - 06: Finding glue – social wellbeing in practice;
  • Chapter - 07: Agile thinking;
  • Chapter - 08: Future communication;
  • Chapter - 09: Leading through change;
  • Chapter - 10: Working sustainably

Über Autor(innen)

Parry, Dan
Dan Parry is the Head of Communications at Working Voices. With nearly 30 years' experience in the media, he has a track record in journalism and documentaries and is a published author of three other books.

Dan started out at BBC News, becoming a senior broadcast journalist before switching to documentaries. Throughout his career, he has focused on understanding how people respond to difficult circumstances that may or may not be of their own making. He is based in Hertfordshire, UK.

Smallman, Nick
Nick Smallman is Founder and CEO of Working Voices. He has been advising blue-chip clients on engagement, leadership and communication for more than 27 years. During that time, he has built an international reputation for thought leadership, delivering acclaimed talks for multinationals on a range of leadership and communication issues.

Nick's personal philosophy, rooted in authentic, meaningful communication, shapes the Working Voices USP. Nick lives in London and is delivering a new venture called The Sustainable Human.

Nick Smallman is Founder and CEO of Working Voices, a consultancy and training provider. For the last 25 years he has been advising global blue-chip clients on engagement, productivity, and retention. He is based in London, UK. Dan Parry is the Head of Content at Working Voices. He began his career as a broadcast journalist and has more than 30 years' experience in the media. He is based in London, UK.