Improve talent retention and employee productivity by encouraging connectedness in your firm
In Connectedness, British business journalist and management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how firms can build meaningful and authentic connections with their employees, encouraging productivity, improving talent retention, and creating an enduring competitive advantage. You’ll find out why the latest peer-reviewed research lends support to the notion that it is the nature of interpersonal environments - and not compensation - that many employees consider to be the most impactful when they’re deciding whether to exit a job.
In the book, you’ll:
- Explore the most important factors that determine the connectedness of a healthy working environment
- Common mistakes and myths about employee wellbeing that sidetrack managerial efforts to improve working culture at a firm
- Examples and case studies that demonstrate the real-world impact of the ideas discussed in the book
Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders seeking to improve employee retention, productivity, engagement, and health, Connectedness is also a must-read resource for employees, human resources professionals, consultants, and everyone else with an interest in employee wellbeing and workplace productivity and safety.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Rita McGrath ix
Introduction by Des Dearlove & Lisa Humphries 1
I We, Human 9
1 Every Working Relationship Can Be Better: Here’s How 11
Michael Bungay Stanier
2 The Four- day Week: Here’s Why 17
Andrew Barnes
3 Why We Lost Touch with Each Other and How We Reconnect 25
Pia Lauritzen
4 One Simple Change to Improve Your Connections 33
Amanda Nimon-Peters
5 Connection Through Communication 45
Matt Abrahams Copyrighted Material
6 The Power of Pausing 53
Jeanette Bronée
II Ai and US 63
7 AI and the Future of Human Connection 65
Kate O’Neill
8 Tech Is Cool, but People Are Warm 77
Giuseppe Stigliano
9 Ask Not What AI Can Do for You - Ask What You Can Do for AI, to Serve Humanity 85
Hamilton Mann
10 The Case for Humanity in the AI Era 101
Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey
11 Human Against the Machine in Forecasting 109
Ville Satopää
III Inclusive Leadership 117
12 Four Simple Words to Help Connect with Others 119
Kirstin Ferguson
13 How to Build Your Human Touch 127
Susie Kennedy
14 Five Ways to Develop Your Meeting Intelligence 137
Soulaima Gourani & Thomas Roulet
15 The UNITE Framework to Build Social Connection at Work 147
Constance Noonan Hadley
16 Devotion and Detachment: The Yin- Yang Equilibrium for Transformative Growth 159
Faisal Hoque
IV Connecting Culture 171
17 Win- Win-Win: When Human Purpose Meets Platform Thinking 173
Daniel Trabucci & Tommaso Buganza
18 Organizational Purpose and Action: Who Sets the Table? 187
Weslynne Ashton
19 The AI- powered Organization: Puzzles to Be Solved 195
Martin Gonzalez
20 Cultivating Active Allyship 209
Poornima Luthra
21 Remote - But Not Disconnected 217
Malissa Clark
V Open Minds 229
22 Making Human Connection Neuroinclusive 231
Ludmila Praslova
23 Inclusion Is the Foundation for Human Connection 243
Mita Mallick
24 Beyond the Individual: The Power of Community 253
Neri Karra Sillaman
25 Empathy 263
Kai Anderson
VI People Pleasers 271
26 How to Avoid Burnout Through the Power of Human Connection 273
Kandi Wiens
27 Leading Gen Z 285
Jenny Fernandez
28 How to Develop Strategic People 297
David Lancefield
29 Your Imagination Is Your Currency 307
Natalie Nixon
About the Editors 315
Acknowledgments 317
Index 319
