If you’re a follower of our blog (and our work), you’ll know how passionate we are about creating great places to work. We believe that positive, happy, engaged people make workplaces better for everyone – employees, customers, businesses and society.
We love sharing best practice and innovative ideas that we discover along the way. If you want to create an amazing workplace, we’ve put together a reading list to help you get started below:
We’re big fans of bestselling author Dan Pink (his popular Ted Talk, the puzzle of motivation, is one of our favourites!) In this book, he shares his approachto employee engagement through autonomy, mastery and purpose – uncovering the surprising truth behind motivation.
Read more about how Dan Pink’s approach works alongside the 5 enablers of engagement
A Great Place to Work For All, Michael C Bush
This book comes from Great Place to Work, an organisation driven by building cultures of trust in workplaces across the globe – and publisher of the annual Best Workplacesreport.
It takes a closer look at the methods successful organisations adopt to bring out the best in their people, and the astounding results this can achieve for everyone.
The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor
Our work at People Lab is grounded in positive psychology. We know, from numerous studies and years of experience, that the traditional approach to work – endlessly striving for success, but never quite reaching it – doesn’twork. This book explores this ‘broken’ approach and flips it on its head, with a compelling message: start with happiness, and success will follow.
Following thousands of entries to the everyday sexism movement, Laura Bates wrote this ground-breaking book back in 2014. It documents and explores sexism in various areas of life, with a chapter dedicated to the experiences of women in the workplace – protesting against inequality, and campaigning for change.
Simon Sinek asserts that whatwe do, or how we do it, shouldn’t be our central focus – we should be considering why. The bestselling book teaches readers new methods for engaging and inspiring others, offering practical tools and techniques for finding your ‘why.’
Employee Engagement, Emma Bridger
This book explores the individual stages of the employee engagement process, offering practical guidance on how to develop and improve engagement. This updated second edition also features new online resources to guide readers along the way – including diagnostic tools, templates, and additional best-practice case studies.
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Have you got an inspirational book to add to the list? We’d love to hear your recommendations – let us know via Twitter, or in the comments section below.
