How to Build a Thriving Workplace

by Beth Cabrera

Multiple studies show a clear link between businesses that attend to their employees’ well-being and the bottom line. In fact, the profit of companies with the strongest focus on employee experience is about four times higher than the average. And yes, you read that correctly - not customer experience, but employee experience. Because if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and your shareholders will do well, too. How to Build a Thriving Workplace: A Leader’s Guide will tell you how to identify and implement relatively simple and inexpensive changes to improve your employees’ work environment and positively impact your bottom line.

Professor Beth Cabrera, organizational psychologist and Senior Scholar at the George Mason University Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, provides a step-by-step guide to creating the best possible work environment for your employees to thrive, based on the relatively new science of positive psychology. She will discuss the benefits of mindfulness training, developing positive attitudes, creating a sense of meaning, work relationships, employee autonomy, and more - and how they lead to a thriving workplace where employees are more creative, engaged, and productive. How to Build a Thriving Workplace: A Leader’s Guide will give you all the information you need to transform your workplace into an attractive and thriving environment. In the process, not only will your bottom line improve, but so will the lives of your employees - and your own life, as well.

Genres: Leadership

Audiobook

First published September 14, 2018

Reviews

[Chad Schultz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This audiobook is not going to rock anybody's world. It's simply packaging commonly shared advice and studies that many other books have already gone over.

But that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. It's all fairly reasonable advice. This would work well for an undergraduate college course, teaching the basics to young people that haven't already read this advice in other books.

However, it is clearly targeted for decisions makers in the business world - those who have the power to shape the work experience for all their employees. Will this cause them to change and treat their employees better? I'm dubious - but if any leaders do change policies as a result of experiencing this audiobook, then it's definitely worth it.

[Shhhhh Ahhhhh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vaguely interesting. Nothing jumped out at me as especially substantive here though, not as different from other books on leadership that have a mix of positive psychology thrown in.

[Juanita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas about goes to build your workplace culture. Would definitely reread this.

[Eileen · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars