Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams

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What if the next global crisis is a mental health pandemic? It is here now. One-third of Americans have shown signs of clinical anxiety or depression, and the current state of suffering globally has risen significantly. The mental health pandemic manifests everywhere, not least in your workplace. As organizations around the world face health and social crises, as well as economic uncertainty, acknowledging and improving wellbeing in your workplace is more critical than ever. Increasingly, leaders and managers must support mental health and cultivate resilience in employees — not just increase engagement and performance. Based on more than 100 million Gallup global interviews, Wellbeing at Work shows you how to do just that. Coauthored by Gallup’s CEO and its Chief Workplace Scientist, Wellbeing at Work explores the five key elements of wellbeing — career, social, financial, physical and community — and how organizations can help employees and teams thrive in those elements. The book also gives leaders ideas and action items to help employees use their innate talents and strengths to thrive in each of the wellbeing elements. And Wellbeing at Work introduces a metric to report a person’s best possible life : Gallup Net Thriving, which will become the “other stock price” for organizations. In a world where work and life are more blended than ever, maximizing employee wellbeing takes on greater urgency. Wellbeing at Work shows leaders how to create a thriving and resilient culture. If you and your leaders don’t change the world, who will? Wellbeing at Work includes a unique code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment, which reveals your top five strengths. Review: I believe this should be "required reading" for all in leadership or want to be! - After hearing two podcasts in which Dr. Jim Harter (co-author) was interviewed, I ordered "Wellbeing at Work" and finished it in just two or three reading sessions. I truly believe that this should be required reading for current and future leaders! Why? Unlike many leadership (and other) books, we learn only about the authors' opinions, not facts. Clifton and Harter present facts based on the extensive research conducted by Gallup. While the book is a total of 325 pages, only 152 are text with the rest being detailed appendices that include specific information on the research, e.g., meta-analysis, hypothesis, methods and results (Appendix 4). Much of the work I do includes helping leaders be more "coach-like." "Wellbeing at Work" emphasizes the importance of leaders who help others thrive being coaches and moving from "boss to coach" (p. 124). Sections may outline discussions such as "risks to a new thriving culture" but more importantly in each case specific steps for addressing risks, issues, etc. are outlined. A code to take the CliftonStrengths Assessment is included. I have taken this several times over the last 5 years AND looking forward to taking it again. I am sharing my enthusiasm for this book with friends and colleagues. It has had a major impact on my thinking and hope that if you read it your experience will be the same. Ed Nottingham, PhD, PCC Consulting & Clinical Psychologist Author, "It's Not as Bad as It Seems: A Thinking Straight Approach to Happiness" Review: A must read If you want to work well with others! - What a fantastic book! After a decade working in government, I was not familiar with Gallup and Jim Clifton’s research. This book is every company’s blueprint to creating strong teams, empowering their workforce and identifying strengths!!!