Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance [Hardcover]

This game-changing how-to shows leaders how to increase engagement by harnessing employees motivation for happiness. 

Our efforts to increase employee engagement are failing because employees simply arent motivated to improve their engagement. In this illuminating book from Eric Karpinski, managers and team leaders will learn the key to effectively engaging employees: focus on happiness.  But not all types of happiness drive engagement; by selecting specific strategies that activate employees inherent motivation forcertain typesof happiness, you can simultaneously boost engagement and organizational performance.  Everybody wins.

InPut Happiness to Work, Karpinski draws on his deep experience at the intersection of business and psychology to lay out a step-by-step program that includes specific activities to enhance engagement and generate happiness at work. Utilizing existing work habits and meetings, these dynamic yet simple tools will hardwire effective changes into leaders and employees behavior, creating long-term, sustainable engagement. Based on more than 10 years of experience applying top positive psychology and neuroscience research in the workplace, Karpinskis strategies are easy to implement and are critical to helping leaders unlock the kind of engagement organizations need to thrive. 

Foreword by Shawn Achor

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1
Happiness Drives Engagement

CHAPTER 2
Integrating Happiness and Engagement

CHAPTER 3
Strategy 1: Hardwire Authentic Appreciation

CHAPTER 4
Strategy 2: Cultivate Connection

CHAPTER 5
Strategy 3: Put Stress to Work

CHAPTER 6
Strategy 4: Activate Employee Superpowers

CHAPTER 7
Strategy 5: Mine for Meaning

CHAPTER 8
Strategy 6: Embrace the Negative

CHAPTER 9
Strategy 7: Approach as a Coach

CONCLUSION
Implementing the Seven Strategies

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