
In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance By Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace
McGraw-Hill Education (Publisher)
Published on 10. March 2019
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-260-14316-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drive long-term profits and growth by making the company a place your employees love.
In Great Company presents a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels. It's not about increasing salaries, offering huge bonuses, or investing in the latest employee engagement tools. The real answer is simpler, deeper, and longer-lasting: getting your people to love where they work.
Founder and CEO of one of today's top leadership development firms, Best Practices Institute, Louis Carter takes you step by step through the process of building a lasting emotional connection between your staff and your company. Carter's proven strategy is founded on five key principles: collaboration, optimism, values, respect, and performance. Fuse them together, and your company will be the envy of your industry.
This groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to create an environment where people have a strong sense of belonging-a place where people finally feel like they're part of something big, where employees want to work collaboratively and creatively, where your staff and your company grow together. Bridge the engagement gap by ensuring that every member of your team spends their entire work day in great company.
In Great Company presents a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels. It's not about increasing salaries, offering huge bonuses, or investing in the latest employee engagement tools. The real answer is simpler, deeper, and longer-lasting: getting your people to love where they work.
Founder and CEO of one of today's top leadership development firms, Best Practices Institute, Louis Carter takes you step by step through the process of building a lasting emotional connection between your staff and your company. Carter's proven strategy is founded on five key principles: collaboration, optimism, values, respect, and performance. Fuse them together, and your company will be the envy of your industry.
This groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to create an environment where people have a strong sense of belonging-a place where people finally feel like they're part of something big, where employees want to work collaboratively and creatively, where your staff and your company grow together. Bridge the engagement gap by ensuring that every member of your team spends their entire work day in great company.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
OH
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-260-14316-4 (9781260143164)
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Persons
Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute. An organizational psychologist and top advisor to C-level executives of Fortune 1000 companies, he is the creator and facilitator of the BPI Senior Executive Board, an invite-only consortium of top CHROs and Heads of Global Talent.
Content
Forewordby Marshall Goldsmith
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The In Great Company Advantage
Chapter 1: Maximizing the EC Equation
Chapter 2: The Emotionally Connected Leader
Chapter 3: Systemic Collaboration
Chapter 4: Positive Future
Chapter 5: Alignment of Values
Chapter 6: Respect
Chapter 7: Killer Achievement
Conclusion: Five Things To Do Right Now
Appendix A: Leader's Self-Assessment: Do I Lead in Great Company?
Appendix B: Sample Employee Pulse Survey: Are Your Associates in Great Company?
Appendix C: The In Great Company Best Practices Playbook
Appendix D: Research Methodology
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The In Great Company Advantage
Chapter 1: Maximizing the EC Equation
Chapter 2: The Emotionally Connected Leader
Chapter 3: Systemic Collaboration
Chapter 4: Positive Future
Chapter 5: Alignment of Values
Chapter 6: Respect
Chapter 7: Killer Achievement
Conclusion: Five Things To Do Right Now
Appendix A: Leader's Self-Assessment: Do I Lead in Great Company?
Appendix B: Sample Employee Pulse Survey: Are Your Associates in Great Company?
Appendix C: The In Great Company Best Practices Playbook
Appendix D: Research Methodology
Notes
Index