Bring Your Human to Work
Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist, business coach, and the creator of the Spaghetti Project, a website dedicated to sharing the science and stories behind workplace relationships. Keswin has worked as a consultant for the Hay Group and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., as an executive recruiter for Russell Reynolds Associates, and as an executive coach at New York University's Stern School of Business. She writes for Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and Quartz at Work on a regular basis.
We are wired as humans to connect and form relationships. So it should come as no surprise that relationships must extend to the workplace, where we spend the majority of our time! Companies that recognize this will retain the most productive, creative, and loyal employees and, as a result, will invariably gain a competitive advantage.
The most successful leaders are those who actively cultivate quality relationships with their employees, who value and practice fundamental human qualities such as authenticity, openness, and basic politeness on a daily basis. Paying attention to and genuinely caring about the effects people have on one another is critical to developing a winning culture in which people perform at their peak and want to come to work.
Erica Keswin has spent over 20 years as a workplace strategist and business coach working with top business leaders and executives to build successful organizations that value relationships. Among the best books on HR, Bring Your Human to Work distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a "human workplace," with case studies from top brands such as Lyft, Starbucks, Mogul, and SoulCycle, to name a few. These building blocks are as follows:
- Understanding your company's global role beyond financial profit
- Encouraging employees to be physically and spiritually healthy
- Holding meetings with a clear purpose
- Allowing for face-to-face interaction
- Incorporating professional development into the company culture
- Motivating your employees to give back to the community
- Just saying "thank you"
A human business is genuine, aligned, and true to itself. Instead of hiding its humanity, a real company flaunts it. It's what the most successful, long-lasting businesses are doing today, and there's no reason yours can't follow suit.
Keswin's leadership lessons promote workplace fairness, devotion, and joy, all of which are critical components of a successful business. By bringing your human to work, you can create a workplace that is good for people, good for business, and has the potential to change the world.
Author: Erica Keswin
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Bring-Your-Human-Work-Workplace/dp/1260118096/
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