Engaged! How Leaders Build Organizations Where Employees Love to Come to Work

Discover the Heartbeat of Every Successful Organization Employee Engagement and Achieve Excellence in Your Workplace.

Every organization faces challenges and hardships. ,Engaged! teaches leaders how to overcome their most difficult obstacle: employee engagement . By pinpointing specific areas leaders can focus on and change, this book shows how one leader can effectively change the entire workplace environment for the better. Topics addressed include:
The 10 Keys to Workplace Excellence
The 11 Stupid Things Managers Do to Mess Up Workplace Excellence
The 12-Step Recovery Program from Stupid Behaviors
76 Strategies to Engage Employees

Problems with employee turnover? Can't seem to keep hold of the good ones? Workplace morale running low? Not sure how to implement change? <i)Engaged!solves these problems, and many more.

Full of facts coupled with helpful anecdotes, this groundbreaking book fearlessly exposes workplace problems that only serve to hold you back, then explains in down-to-earth terms the solutions for positive change. Themes addressed teach the importance of and the steps to achieve such necessary components of workplace excellence as:
Communication The Right Stuff at the Right Time
Cool Stuff Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Accountability
And Much More.
Timely and accessible, this essential guidebook for every manager provides all of the information necessary for organizations to grow and thrive in today's economy. Based on years of research and data from over 100,000 employees and managers, Engaged! offers what other business books don't: Results.

Peter B. Stark and Jane Flaherty lead the management consulting firm Peter Barron Stark Companies, which specializes in building organizations where employees love to come to work and customers love to do business.

During the past twenty years their firm has administered employee opinion surveys to nearly 100,000 employees around the world.

They present the Award for Workplace Excellence (TM) annually to those organizations whose commitment to employee engagement is reflected with exceptional survey results.

The data from these surveys and the experience of working with these leading organizations have positioned Stark and Flaherty as specialists in the art of developing corporate cultures that attract and retain loyal, engaged employees. As experts in workplace excellence, they write and speak extensively on this topic.

Stark and Flaherty have coauthored several books including The Competent Leader, The Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills, Lifetime Leadership Leaving Your Legacy, and The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need.

They have been featured in the New York Times, Redbook, USA Today, Selling Power,Entrepreneur and on CNN and NBC.

Among the organizations Stark and Flaherty have had the privilege of partnering with are Alcon Laboratories; California Bank & Trust; Campbell Soup; Charlotte Russe; Crain Communications; Farmers Insurance; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Kaiser Permanente; LG Electronics; Lowe's; MetLife; NIKE; NFL; Phoenix Suns; Qualcomm; Reckitt Benckiser; San Diego Padres; SONY; Texas Instruments; Toshiba America Information Systems; and WD-40.