Work Culture Leadership

In today’s age of Zoom calls and hybrid workplaces, how can leaders foster relationships that allow everyone to succeed? A trio of best friends and leadership consultants at SkyeTeam have the surprising answer: workplace success starts by being a friend. Meet the Ally Mindset, a model for proactive, thoughtful work relationships. As you heal adversarial relationships and strengthen weaker ties, you’ll find that when you have best friends at work—colleagues who have your back—you thrive.

The Ape in the Corner Office connects with the day-to-day of the workplace because it helps explain what people are really concerned about: How come he got the wing chair with the gold trim? How can I survive as that big ape's subordinate without becoming a spineless yes-man? Why does being a lone wolf mean being a loser? And, yes, why is it that jerks seem to prosper, at least in the short run?

Rituals are group activities during which people go through a series of behaviors in a specific order. They give teams the ability to create a collective point of view and reshape the processes that affect their day-to-day work. In Turning People into Teams, you’ll find dozens of practical rituals for finding a common purpose at the beginning of a project, getting unstuck when you hit bottlenecks or brick walls, and wrapping things up at the end and moving on to new teams.

The Great Resignation served as a wake-up call. Today, the best companies have to compete for the best employees and it’s not just about the size of the paycheck; it’s about performing meaningful work that creates value. I made this audiobook to give every company—your company—a road map to relevance and competitiveness, and to help make Happy Work a reality.

The HBR Guide to Managing Flexible Work has the answers. Filled with tips, advice, and examples, this book helps individual contributors and managers alike assess the trade-offs that come with flexible work options, advocate for the arrangement that works for them, and remain productive and connected to team members at the same time.

This book is about doing our best work. Sometimes distractions, personality clashes, and working with people whose working styles are different than ours, can create friction. Some colleagues have work styles that frustrate us and slow down progress. They say we spend 90,000 hours at work during our lifetime. How great would it be if most of those hours were productive, impactful and fulfilling?

Workplaces are changing. Do you feel lost in dealing with this mindset shift? There is a global movement happening right now in how businesses operate and how your staff wants to work. The big question is are you, as a business leader, ready for this fundamental change? Are you unsure how to make this shift sustainable for the long term? Start today and make headway into creating an environment that will give you a competitive advantage over your competitors. Don’t be the one that is left behind!

In the global turmoil of 2008, Andrew Moore took charge of a declining real estate business in a troubled market. Managing short-term behavior through the language of organisational values, he and his team developed a culture that not only steadied the business, but reversed its fortunes. This book explains how. Andrew Moore has done something remarkable - he's made culture real, tangible and actionable. This is a wonderfully honest and well-written testimony to the power of organisational culture.

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? You have to create a magnetic culture. As CEO of leading employee survey and HR consulting firm HR Solutions, Inc., Kevin Sheridan knows how it's done - and in Building a Magnetic Culture, he shares all his secrets.

In The Energy of Success, award-winning energy expert Rebecca Ahmed reveals precisely how to shift your physical, emotional, and mental potential through proven, easy-to-use strategies you can start using today. When you learn to shift your own and your team's energy (even if you are not in charge!), you will immediately increase their joy and enthusiasm, transform your workplace, and infuse positivity into your workplace . . . for everyone.

Alle reden von New Work, Agilität und Digitalisierung. Doch was bleibt von all diesen Ansätzen übrig, wenn der Scrum-Workshop zu Ende ist? Oft holt der Unternehmensalltag die gerade noch auf Teamwork und Innovation gestimmten Teilnehmer schneller ein als sie New Work buchstabieren können: Abteilungen, Hierarchien und die mit ihnen verbundenen Rituale stehen echter Zusammenarbeit im Weg. Wuchernde Regeln und Vorschriften, feste Prozesse und Anreizsysteme transportieren nicht den Geist von Inspiration, Kreativität und Kollaboration, sondern programmieren stattdessen unser Verhalten auf Konformität.

SPIEGEL Bestseller. Janina Kugel ist eine der bekanntesten Top-Managerinnen Deutschlands und die Expertin, wenn es um Themen wie Diversität, New Work und Digitalisierung geht. Über viele Jahre war sie im Vorstand der Siemens AG zuständig für rund 380.000 Mitarbeiter. Mit frischen und innovativen Ideen schaffte sie es, die Unternehmenskultur des Großkonzerns Schritt für Schritt zu verändern - raus aus starren Strukturen, hin zu einem offenen und flexiblen Umgang, den Mensch immer im Mittelpunkt.

Would you describe your workplace as "happy"? From the moment you begin each work day, you contribute to its culture. With your behavior, communications, and attitude, you can impact your overall happiness and that of your co-workers in the workplace. Taking a few simple and creative actions can all build up to happy workplace culture. How? This book offers 100 ways to choose from.

Von half bis full remote: Das erste umfassende Hörbuch zu hybridem Arbeiten im deutschsprachigen Raum. Die Corona-Krise hat Unternehmen von heute auf morgen vor die Herausforderung gestellt, Mitarbeiter ins Homeoffice zu schicken. Und diese haben die Vorzüge der neuen Arbeitsweise schätzen gelernt. Wir erleben gerade einen Quantensprung in unserer Arbeitswelt, denn die jahrzehntelang vorherrschende Nine-to-five-Präsenzkultur wird von immer mehr Mitarbeitern als für ihre Lebenssituation unpassend abgelehnt.

Over the past decade, a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses, with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organisation looks and feels like. Each chapter in Outpacer focusses on an Outpacer characteristic required for organisational greatness and features examples of what it is and how to achieve it.

Leading Clarity offers a bold proposal that changes the trajectory of your business and leadership. Today's business environment is more complex than at any time in history with greater ambiguity, chaos, and uncertainty. Too often, individuals and organizations become bogged down with competing priorities and the constant press of daily demands. This tangled mass of noise effectively handicaps every facet of business. This audiobook provides a proven, time-tested strategy that has brought dynamic results to hundreds of organizations of all scope and size.

While most of us would like to think we generally behave in a positive way, especially at work, everyone has the potential to slip into negative behaviors that can have a damaging impact on our colleagues, morale, and the organization we are part of. This useful guide by Anna Eliatamby looks at the different types of positive and negative work behaviors people fall into and why. Your own toxic work behaviors will help you recognize and acknowledge your own problematic behaviors in the workplace.

The future of work is already here, and what this future looks like must be a pressing concern for the current generation of leaders in both the private and public sectors. In the next 10 to 15 years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine. How can we survive and thrive in the face of such drastic change?

Spirituality is the basis for all successful organizations and the most important asset you have in elevating you and your business to a new level of performance. The most successful individuals and firms in the world are changing the way they do business, in order to access a vast resevoir of untapped energy. You too can join the revolution, because the tools these people are utilizing are found inside each and every one of us.

On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn't the ultimate goal - it's merely the starting point. Top-tier leaders of the world's best places to work reveal their best-practice strategies for getting employees to work harder, perform better, and stay longer. On Fire at Work features examples and original stories from exclusive personal interviews with over 25 founders/CEOs/presidents of companies like Marriott, Siemens, and many more!