Engagement Whisperer: A quieter and more collaborative approach to inspiring your team

Engagement Whisperer: A quieter and more collaborative approach to inspiring your team

by Tracy Stanley
Engagement Whisperer: A quieter and more collaborative approach to inspiring your team

Engagement Whisperer: A quieter and more collaborative approach to inspiring your team

by Tracy Stanley

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Overview

Many researchers have highlighted the business value of deeply engaged teams. Indeed a great team is powerful, much more than the sum of its individual people.


While many things influence engagement at work, and indeed there is complexity - it isn't rocket science.
Engagement Whisperer demystifies the science and describes a 'softly, softly' approach to lifting engagement in your team. There is already so much noise in an organisation that a quieter approach might just be the right 'cup of tea' (or coffee).


This book is written for anyone who manages people. Learning for managers is distilled in thirty delicious and easily digestible bites. It's designed as a dipper or a flipper. Simply, you can read a chapter or two at a time on the bus or while enjoying a cappuccino (my preferred option).


The book will also be helpful for those people responsible for organisational wide employee engagement initiatives. Perhaps you are in human resources or corporate communications. There are a couple of chapters written with input from folk like you who have run these types of programs in the past.

Who is this book for?


The books is targeted at managers in large organisations. I've drawn heavily on my PhD research into what's happening when people are highly engaged at work. The results are recommendations for manager's behaviours and team processes. I also talk a bit about what it's like to live in a large organisation and how this influences your status and identity. The book is sprinkled heavily with the voices of employees.

What will the reader take away?

The book is a fun and enlightening investment of a manager's time. They will come away with ideas on things to do to bring out the best in their team.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780648189206
Publisher: Tracy Stanley
Publication date: 11/01/2017
Pages: 148
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.34(d)

Table of Contents

Advance Praise for Engagement Whisperer

Why a Whisperer?

ENTREE 7

1. Why the interest in employee engagement?

2. How I collected stories about employee engagement

3. Big Picture – What did I learn?

4. The nature of work

JOBS

5. Challenging jobs stretch us and bring out our best

6. Learning and mastering a skill is a wonderful and empowering thing

7. Autonomy is a staple of life – Give your team members freedom

8. It feels great to achieve things – even little things

9. We all want to be recognised

10. A little bit of time pressure gives us focus … even though we groan

TEAMS

11. A collaborative team works and feels better

12. Relationships matter (but to some more than others)

13. Openness, trust and feeling safe create a great team climate

14. Team processes provide learning and recognition opportunities

15. ‘Ground control to Major Tom’ – How to engage remote teams

THE BEST MANAGERS

16: Be open to new ideas

17: Offer support first and advice second

18: Take time out to analyse lessons learned

19: Be fair and consistent

20: Celebrate the team’s differences

21: Laugh out loud

22: Share the big picture

23: Say thank you

BIG ORGANISATIONS

24: Who am I? Influence of status and identity on engagement

25: Feeling connected to the organisation

26: Gotta get balance – Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too?

27: Moods, motivations and trade-offs

WHAT IT ALL MEANS

28: Pulling it all together

29: Wisdom from HR practitioners

30: Why whispering works

References

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