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The Non-Obvious Guide To Employee Engagement (For Millennials, Boomers And Everyone Else)
Why are guidebooks for employee engagement so useless?
Too many are filled with empty theories, fabricated frameworks and lots and lots (and lots) of useless fluff. What if you could get the advice you need from a real expert in an easy to access format you can really use? The Non-Obvious Guide To Employee Engagement (For Millennials, Boomers And Everyone Else) is the guidebook you’ve been Googling for.
Within these pages you’ll get the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about how inspire your team and transform your workplace culture. Do you really need ping pong tables? Why do so any employees struggle to be inspired at work and what can you do to help? What are the lessons you can learn (and steal) from the highest performing teams in the world? How can you improve collaboration between workers from different generations? Are the idea of millennial entitlement a reality or a myth?
These are just a few of the common questions that you will get answers to in this book. Inspired by years of research and advising businesses of all sizes, well known corporate culture experts Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter have written a rare guide that is at least as useful as a great YouTube video or an epic blog post … and the only way you can get this useful advice in one place.
Too many are filled with empty theories, fabricated frameworks and lots and lots (and lots) of useless fluff. What if you could get the advice you need from a real expert in an easy to access format you can really use? The Non-Obvious Guide To Employee Engagement (For Millennials, Boomers And Everyone Else) is the guidebook you’ve been Googling for.
Within these pages you’ll get the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about how inspire your team and transform your workplace culture. Do you really need ping pong tables? Why do so any employees struggle to be inspired at work and what can you do to help? What are the lessons you can learn (and steal) from the highest performing teams in the world? How can you improve collaboration between workers from different generations? Are the idea of millennial entitlement a reality or a myth?
These are just a few of the common questions that you will get answers to in this book. Inspired by years of research and advising businesses of all sizes, well known corporate culture experts Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter have written a rare guide that is at least as useful as a great YouTube video or an epic blog post … and the only way you can get this useful advice in one place.
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125 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Maddie Grant
14 books12 followersMaddie Grant is an expert digital strategist and culture change consultant whose superpower is skillful shepherding of organizations through cultural and digital transformation, with specific expertise in internal (staff) and external (member/customer) engagement. Alongside her consulting work at Human Workplaces, Maddie is an accomplished speaker and author and has written several books with her partner (in business and life) Jamie Notter, including Humanize: How People Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World (2011), When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of Business, (2015) and the Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement, published in January 2019.
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December 29, 2018
OUT JANUARY 1, 2019!
Thank you so much to the author, Maddie, for giving me a pre-release copy of this book.
While I'm not a people manager (yet), I feel passionately regarding employee engagement. I also fall into the Millennial category and truly hate the stereotypes that come with it. This book was done in a really great way. Easy to navigate chapters, with important concepts clearly highlighted throughout. One of the concepts that has still stuck with me is the concept of an Employee Net Promoter Score to measure your company's culture. While other assessments can still be helpful, this is something you can use again and again, and is quantitative.
I work in software development and love how much this book spoke to the concepts of Innovation and Agile. There are so many ways these concepts can work into all aspects of life, and it really helped things click for me.
My favorite part of the book was actually part of the Appendix - Managing Engagement in a Multi-Generational Context. It truly highlighted the differences between the generations, why they are stereotyped and gave ideas as to how you might adjust for them.
This was a quick read and one I would recommend for managers and those in the C-Suite. A lot of great ideas, while still understanding there isn't one answer for every company. As with many things, you have to do what makes sense for you and your company.
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you so much to the author, Maddie, for giving me a pre-release copy of this book.
While I'm not a people manager (yet), I feel passionately regarding employee engagement. I also fall into the Millennial category and truly hate the stereotypes that come with it. This book was done in a really great way. Easy to navigate chapters, with important concepts clearly highlighted throughout. One of the concepts that has still stuck with me is the concept of an Employee Net Promoter Score to measure your company's culture. While other assessments can still be helpful, this is something you can use again and again, and is quantitative.
I work in software development and love how much this book spoke to the concepts of Innovation and Agile. There are so many ways these concepts can work into all aspects of life, and it really helped things click for me.
My favorite part of the book was actually part of the Appendix - Managing Engagement in a Multi-Generational Context. It truly highlighted the differences between the generations, why they are stereotyped and gave ideas as to how you might adjust for them.
This was a quick read and one I would recommend for managers and those in the C-Suite. A lot of great ideas, while still understanding there isn't one answer for every company. As with many things, you have to do what makes sense for you and your company.
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
April 16, 2025
This book did have some great points, which I may have given a 3-star for, but there are PAGES of resources with a website link that DOES NOT WORK! So all the pages of resources, as in "look here!" or "check out this resource" are completely useless. This book is one of the worst I've wasted my time on. For this reason, I'd rate this a 0-star book if I could. Not recommended. Save your time and money.
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