1. Building a Magnetic Culture
Attract top talent and energize your workforce with a MAGNETIC CULTURE “Sheridan outlines simple but powerful steps to take in creating and maintaining an organization that fosters an environment with similar attraction. The perils of a disengaged workforce are well known―low productivity, high employee turnover, and failure to meet organization-wide goals. Less well known is what to do about it. How do you create a workforce that is always ready, able, and eager to take the organization to the next level.
2. 1,001 Ways to Engage Employees
Employee engagement has been consistently cited as a top and growing priority by CEOs, managers, and human resources leaders across the country. This new title from bestselling author Dr. Bob Nelson will help move any organization from just measuring the need to engage employees to actually changing management behaviors that will lead to a stronger culture of engagement. Your organization will become more effective at both attracting and retaining talent and maximizing the contribution of your employees.
3. We: How to Increase Performance and Profits through Full Engagement
Employee engagement has been consistently cited as a top and growing priority by CEOs, managers, and human resources leaders across the country. This new title from bestselling author Dr. Bob Nelson will help move any organization from just measuring the need to engage employees to actually changing management behaviors that will lead to a stronger culture of engagement. Your organization will become more effective at both attracting and retaining talent and maximizing the contribution of your employees.
4. Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement
Companies with the best cultures generate stock market returns of twice the general market and enjoy half the employee turnover of their peers. Their staff innovate more, deliver better customer service and, hands-down, beat the competition. These companies outperform and disrupt their markets. They break the rules of traditional HR, they rebel against the status quo.
5. Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work
Dr. Paul Marciano, a leading behavioral psychologist and business consultant empowers organizations and engages employees through his renowned RESPECT Model. Written for supervisors, managers, business owners, HR professionals and leaders at every level responsible for increasing the engagement of their employees. Filled with proven, real-world strategies to improve the seven drivers of engagement: Recognition: Empowerment, Supportive Feedback, Partnering, Expectation, Consideration and Trust. If you are responsible for increasing the human capital in your organization, this book is for you!
6. Employee Engagement for Dummies by Bob Kelleher
Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you foster employee engagement, a concept that furthers an organization’s interests through ensuring that employees remain involved in, committed to, and fulfilled by their work. It covers: practical steps to boost employee engagement with your company or team; how to engage different generations of employees; the keys to reduce voluntary employee turnover; practical tools to help retain and engage your employees; processes that will boost employee retention and productivity; hiring the best fits from the start; and much more.
7. Intrinsic Motivation at Work
What motivates people to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has traditionally focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas calls ‘extrinsic motivators’: pay, benefits, status, bonuses, commissions, pension plans, expense budgets, and the like. While these are powerful motivators, particularly in command/control job situations where workers have little or no say in how the job is managed, by themselves they are no longer enough. In today’s organizations, where managers expect workers and teams to self-manage their work, intrinsic rewards are essential.
8. Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement
In Louder Than Words, thought leader and speaker Bob Kelleher distills vital employee engagement principles, culled from his many years of experience, into ten practical and transformative steps that will help companies maximize employee engagement – the key to capturing discretionary effort. While highlighting win-win engagement solutions, the author makes a case for creating and maintaining a corporate culture that attracts and retains the most productive and creative people. Throughout the book, specific best in class employee engagement and leadership company examples are shared, including those from Oracle, The Timberland Company, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, ENSR, and AECOM. Readers will take away practical tools and examples to help them engage their workforce. A must read for anyone who manages people.
9. Louder Than Words
USE THE POWER OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT TO IGNITE PASSION, PURPOSE, AND PRODUCTIVITY IN EVERY MEMBER OF YOUR STAFF. Successful managers understand that their job is to help employees do their best work, not simply give orders. The Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement shows leaders at all levels how to build relationships that support collaboration and drive meaningful performance improvement.