Road to Flourishing: Eight Keys to Boost Employee Engagement and Well-Being
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Overview
What makes for a flourishing workplace?
Many organizations find themselves spinning their wheels in work cultures filled with toxicity, dysfunction, conflict, and fear. Unengaged employees drag down productivity, and ineffective management undermines morale. How can we create workplaces where people don’t just struggle to get through the day but instead thrive and love what they do and where they work?
Al Lopus, cofounder and CEO of Best Christian Workplaces Institute, has studied hundreds of organizations to discover eight key drivers in companies with healthy culture and engaged employees. He gathers best practices from across a range of companies and ministries to demonstrate how people at all levels can work together to accomplish work that matters. Principles and real-life examples provide concrete ways that organizations can flourish by building fantastic teams, cultivating life-giving work, attracting and retaining outstanding talent, and much more.
With compelling case studies, behind-the-curtain revelations, and enlightening personal anecdotes, Road to Flourishing will motivate leaders, managers, and their teams to reimagine, reassess, and renew their commitment to building healthy work cultures where everyone can flourish.
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- Explores how we can create workplaces where people thrive and love what they do and where they work.
- Explains the eight key drivers in companies with healthy culture and engaged employees.
- Motivates leaders, managers, and their teams to reimagine, reassess, and renew their work cultures.
- Foreword by Peter Greer
- Preface
- 1. From Toxic to Flourishing: The Eight Keys to a Transformed Culture
- 2. Fantastic Teams
- 3. Life-Giving Work
- 4. Outstanding Talent
- 5. Uplifting Growth
- 6. Rewarding Compensation
- 7. Inspirational Leadership
- 8. Sustainable Strategy
- 9. Healthy Communication
- 10. Journey Inward, Journey Forward: Your First Steps on the Road to Flourishing
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Workplace Culture Pulse Survey
- Notes
If you regularly ponder and discuss your organization’s culture or you have never given it much thought, you will benefit from the principles Al shares in this book. In its pages, you will meet leaders who are actively shaping workplace culture. Whether you work within the nonprofit or for-profit sector, you will gain a greater awareness of your organization’s needs and how to build a vibrant culture and an engaged team. Al shares stories from some of the countless organizations the institute has helped on the path to flourishing, and implementing his advice will help yours too.
—Peter Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International, from the foreword
Al Lopus has built a remarkable niche of coming alongside ministries—both large and small—to reshape their cultures. While not promising an overnight cure, he identifies areas of unhealthiness and charts doable pathways to flourishing. I have seen his handiwork up close, and it is transformative. With this book, his sphere of influence is broadened. I believe that the Lord is well pleased with his efforts.
—Alec Hill, president emeritus of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
If you are a leader who wants your team and mission to thrive, you’re holding in your hands an extremely helpful guide. Al Lopus has been researching and reflecting on the principles and practices that make for a flourishing organization for decades, and his voice is wise, gentle, and trustworthy. Apply the contents of this book and the journey ahead will be transformational for all.
—Stephen A. Macchia, founder and president of Leadership Transformations and author of Becoming a Healthy Church