BOOK OF THE WEEK
WORK HAPPY: WHAT GREAT BOSSES KNOW
BY JILL GEISLER
What makes great bosses great? How do managers succeed at helping their employees do their best work and nurture workplace that is happy and thriving?
In WORK HAPPY, management guru Jill Geisler answers these questions and provides a practical, step-by-step guide to achieving happy workplaces, based on real-world experience, respected research, and lessons that will transform managers and their teams.
WORK HAPPY is a workshop in a book, designed to produce positive, immediate, and lasting results. Geisler offers concrete steps for improving each element of management, including collaboration, communication, conflict resolution, motivation, coaching, and feedback.
Chapters, including Change Is the New Normal: Lead the Way, You Should Not Treat Everyone the Same, and What Employees Never Forget-and Never Forgive, offer new insights into the workplace, so that everyone on the team can be their best.
For all readers, whether experienced managers, rookie bosses or aspiring leaders, WORK HAPPY will supercharge their skills and celebrate the values that make anyone look forward to going to work. WORK HAPPY will supercharge their management skills to the next level and proves that learning, leadership, and life at work can (and should) be fun.
Geisler, former senior faculty member of the Poynter Institute is Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in leadership studies from Duquesne University. She can be reached through her website www.jillgeisler.com
