Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace [Hardcover]

Make work suck less and improve the performance of your people with this practical, hands-on guide

The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, Does work really have to suck this bad? It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it.

In Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, Mercers North American Transformation Leader Melissa Swift delivers an eye-opening roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. In the book, youll explore different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices weve created and endured over time. Youll also find:

• 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace at organizational level
• 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace at team level
• A simple framework to help you make people-centered decisions

An incisive and practical take on managing and working with people thatfor oncedoesnt rely on hackneyed idealism or management-by-algorithm, Work Here Now is the hands-on performance improvement tool that executives, managers, HR professionals, and other business leaders have been searching for.

List of Strategies ix

List of Figures xvii

Preface xix

1 The Great Work Unpack: Understanding and Fixing Broken Work 1

2 The Anxiety Monster and the Boss Baby Customer: Slaying Work's Monsters 23

3 Breaking the Workforce Copy Machine: Switching Off the Past, Switching on the Future 43

4 Decisions About People, for People: How to Make the Human-Centric Decisions That Drive 67the Next Generation of Greater Organizationall“˜