Ebook: The optimistic workplace: creating an environment that energizes everyone

FOREWORD BY DORIE CLARK ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: The Future of the Workplace 7 CHAPTER 2: Destructive Management 28 CHAPTER 3: The Power of Contagious Emotions 44 CHAPTER 4: The Downside of Optimism: Missteps and Excess 57 CHAPTER 5: Values-Based Leadership 75 CHAPTER 6: It All Starts with Purpose 88 CHAPTER 7: The Meaning Makers 102 CHAPTER 8: We Must Change the Way We Work 118 CHAPTER 9: Human-Centered Leadership 135 CHAPTER 10: Next Comes Trust: Creating Community 151 CHAPTER 11: The Cultivation of Optimism 165 AFTERWORD 179 APPENDIX 1: The Optimism Planner 181 APPENDIX 2: One-on-One Format 197 ENDNOTES 201 INDEX 217.;The Optimistic Workplace includes a step by step breakdown of how to personalize the lessons in the book for your situation through the processes of: Planning: The first 30 days, in which you assess opportunities, identify needs, anticipate obstacles, and communicate goals and your vision for reaching them. Implementation: The next 30 days, during which you collaboratively create the desired feel of the workplace, sketch out a plan for increased optimism, and identify ways to measure your progress. Monitoring: The final 30-day period is for continuous evaluation of attitudes and progress, adjustments based on collaborative experience, and analysis of results. As a manager of people and processes, it's too easy to think of yourself as just one in a collection of moving parts. What you really are is a steward, a guide who mentors, motivates, supports, and partners with your team members. And yes, you care about them and their experience in your workplace. An environment where this care is on display every day is one in which people want to succeed--and so they will.