The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture - Softcover

Boelkes, Deb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734076100 ISBN 13: 9781734076103

Publisher: Business World Rising, 2019

Synopsis

Are You a Best-Ever Boss? If No, Would You Like to Be One?Then be A WOW!Employees can be cynics and skeptics. Both have much in common—they’ve been disappointed, deceived, and at times, devastated. Most workplaces are loaded with the working wounded—men and women who have been let down by their leaders, their managers, their coworkers, even the culture of their workplace. They live for Fridays.•Could that be yours?•Is your workplace one where employees can’t wait to clock out?•Would you like to discover how you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in?You can. Within this book are the strategies, tips and tools to make it so.The WOW Factor Workplace shows it’s possible to create a workplace that not only WOWS everyone who works there, it WOWS everyone who hears about it. Yes, you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in. A workplace where every time top talent comes into your company, they say WOW! And, a workplace when employees are asked, “What’s it like to work at your company?” the response is, “I think I won the lottery!” People join companies and leave bosses. Get ready to become a WOW boss in a WOW factor workplace.WOW is within your reach with The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture.

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About the Authors

Deb Boelkes founded Business World Rising, over a decade ago, with a dedication to accelerate the advancement of high-potential business women, and men, to the top of industry-leading, Best Place to Work organizations. During her 30 years' experience building and leading Sales, Marketing and Professional Services organizations within global Fortune 150 technology firms, Deb earned her long-held reputation as a high energy, heartfelt leader who gets things done. Having ascended her own career ladder within male-dominated corporations, Deb knows only too well the challenges women, in particular, can face in their efforts to achieve career and corporate success. She knows how certain attitudes and behaviors can undermine personal advancement, team performance and inter-departmental cohesion. She also knows the real culprit ... and solution ... emanates from the heart of leadership. Deb is as passionate about the messages conveyed in this book as she is about helping organizations and rising stars establish and achieve their own visions of success. In addition to her vibrant focus on public speaking; producing Best Place to Work and Heartfelt Leadership symposiums; and mentoring high-potential heartfelt leaders, Deb continues to enjoy interviewing and learning from other heartfelt leaders across the country and around the world. Deb has worked with clients as diverse as Experian, Merrill Lynch, Smashbox Cosmetics, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Toshiba, and Junior Achievement. Deb received her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and her MBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Rhode Island. She lives on Amelia Island in northeast Florida with her husband, Chris. Together, they have three grown sons and three grand-daughters.

Dr. Mark Goulston, co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership, is a business psychiatrist and the author of seven prior books ... with his book, Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, now the top book on listening in the world. As a result, Dr. Mark has become one of world's preeminent experts on empathic listening. Also the founder of @wmystglobal, Dr. Mark is an executive coach, mentor and confidante to leaders from start-ups to the Fortune 100. He speaks globally on leadership, communication and influence. He hosts the critically acclaimed podcast, My Wakeup Call, where he interviews influencers about their personal journeys and wakeup calls that led them to where they are now. He is regularly quoted and featured in print, radio, podcast, television including: Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, Business Insider, CNN, BBC-TV, ABC/NBC/CBS News and he was the focus of a PBS television special on listening.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business World Rising
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734076100
• ISBN 13: 9781734076103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192