Manager's Guide to Employee Engagement

  • 5h 11m
  • Scott Carbonara
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2013

Successful managers understand that their job is to help employees do their best work, not simply give orders. The Manager's Guide to Employee Engagement shows leaders at all levels how to build relationships that support collaboration and drive meaningful performance improvement. Learn how to:

  • Foster loyalty, trust, and commitment in all your employees
  • Create a culture of positive thinking
  • Empower employees to act as internal entrepreneurs
  • Align employee and organizational values and goals
  • Become "the best boss ever"--without losing sight of business goals

Learn how to make your employees engaged and successful--and facilitate your own success at the same time.

About the Author

Scott Carbonara is a speaker, trainer, author, and management consultant who "brings authentic leadership to life from the boardroom to the family room."

Scott is known as "The Leadership Therapist" for his diverse professional portfolio-ranging from serving as an award-winning family crisis intervention counselor-to executive director of communications and change management and eventually chief-of-staff of the nation's largest non-investor-owned health insurance company. While there, he addressed a skyrocketing 38% attrition rate and, through digging beyond the surface and implementing creative employee engagement initiatives and branding of a positive corporate culture, led the team that reduced it to an unprecedented 6.5%. Scott's dual background in both counseling and executive leadership makes him a highly-skilled, passionate communicator and problem solver who provides direction to diverse teams ranging in size from 1 to 13,000.

Scott has spoken at international conferences and for such esteemed groups as Chicago Booth School of Business, and is the author of several leadership books. Through his humorous and practical keynotes, executive coaching, personalized consulting, and story-driven books, he breathes life into leadership topics including employee engagement, change management, communication, positive culture, and esteem. Like a houseplant which grows towards the light, Scott aims to inspire people everywhere to lead by living positively, and paying it forward.

In this Book

  • The Case for Employee Engagement
  • Are You a Manager or a Leader? Becoming the “Best Boss Ever”
  • The ABCs of Engagement—Why People Do What They Do
  • A Positive Culture Starts Here—Positive Thinking
  • Empowering Employees to Act as Entrepreneurial Owners
  • Aligning Employee and Organizational Values, Missions, and Goals
  • Know Your Employees—Get PSST (Personal, Strengths-Based, Social, and Targeted)
  • Communication—The Art of Asking Others to Dance
  • Tickling the Engagement Bone—Stimulating Happiness with Humor, Fun, and Exercise at Work
  • Tackling Barriers to Engagement