Work Happy by Jill Geisler audiobook

Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know

By Jill Geisler
Read by Rhoda Griffin

Center Street 9781455507436
8.93 Hours Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781611134599

Transform your professional life and bring joy back to the office with the cheery guidance of a marketing pro who believes that the best work environment is a happy one. Management guru Jill Geisler has coached countless men and women who want to build their leadership skills, help employees do their best work, and make workplaces happy and successful. In WORK HAPPY, she provides a practical, step-by-step guide, based on real-world experience, respected research, and lessons that will transform managers and their teams. It's a workshop-in-a-book, designed to produce positive, immediate and lasting results. Whether the reader is an experienced manager, a rookie boss or an aspiring leader, WORK HAPPY will supercharge their skills and celebrate the values that make anyone look forward to going to work. Jill Geisler offers concrete steps for improving each element of management including collaboration, communication, conflict resolution, motivation, coaching, and feedback, so that everyone on the team-whether in the office or working offsite-can do their best. WORK HAPPY takes management skills to the next level and proves that learning, leadership and life at work can (and should) be fun.

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Summary

Summary

Transform your professional life and bring joy back to the office with the cheery guidance of a marketing pro who believes that the best work environment is a happy one.

Management guru Jill Geisler has coached countless men and women who want to build their leadership skills, help employees do their best work, and make workplaces happy and successful. In WORK HAPPY, she provides a practical, step-by-step guide, based on real-world experience, respected research, and lessons that will transform managers and their teams. It's a workshop-in-a-book, designed to produce positive, immediate and lasting results.

Whether the reader is an experienced manager, a rookie boss or an aspiring leader, WORK HAPPY will supercharge their skills and celebrate the values that make anyone look forward to going to work. Jill Geisler offers concrete steps for improving each element of management including collaboration, communication, conflict resolution, motivation, coaching, and feedback, so that everyone on the team-whether in the office or working offsite-can do their best.

WORK HAPPY takes management skills to the next level and proves that learning, leadership and life at work can (and should) be fun.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Jill Geisler has an uncanny ability to unravel the most complicated workplace problems and come up with creative solutions to resolve them.” Bob Schieffer, CBS News
“Simply but, this book is a gift. A gift to any young manager in a new stretch assignment. A gift to any senior executive seeking to inspire a workforce. A gift to anyone driven to learn how to become a better leader. Jill Geisler’s intelligence and warmth, captured within these pages, offers the reader an indispensable blend of best practices and comforting thoughts. She has created a safe place to think about becoming a better boss—which makes her something of a gift, too.” Robert King, senior vice president, ESPN
“Jill has a talent for making great leadership seem slap-your-forehead simple. That’s because her work in Work Happy sits atop mountainous research and real-life experience that has been honed and scrutinized by some of the most exacting leaders around. The result is practical, rock-solid advice that you’re ready to act on before she’s done talking.” Keith Woods, vice president, NPR
“A smart and substantive book that offers meaningful, practical advice to leaders at all levels in any organization.” Robert M. Steele, PhD, director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University
“Geisler…has distilled years of management experience and study into this practical step-by-step guide to improving leadership skills…Geisler humanizes the text with anecdotes from her own leadership development as a broadcast news director in Milwaukee, sharing her revelations, corrections, and progress…This positive, useful work is sure to be a go-to manual for those new to management.” Publishers Weekly
“Rhoda Griffin’s lively phrasing palette keeps the action going with the perfect amount of pathos, excitement, or levity in all the right places. Her easy humor and vocal energy make learning fun.” AudioFile

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Author Bio: Jill Geisler

Author Bio: Jill Geisler

Jill Geisler heads the leadership and management faculty of the Poynter Institute. She teaches, writes, and consults on critical issues for leaders. Among her clients are the Boston Globe, CNN, and the Washington Post. Jill holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in leadership studies from Duquesne University.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 8.93
Audience: Adult
Language: English