A practical look at how positive psychology can transform performance at work, essential for anyone looking to both grow in their professional career and improve their well-being. It is equally appropriate for employees or for managers and leaders looking to increase performance in their teams and departments.
Well-being at work should be more than just helping people feel okay. Positive psychology enables people to be more than okay and actually thrive at work. This book describes highly practical ideas and techniques that can be applied in the workplace at individual, team and organisational levels to increase positivity, boost engagement, develop strong working relationships, build purpose, enable a sense of accomplishment and grow resilience. It is packed with tools and tips to make a difference to your career, teams, organisations and daily working life, and demonstrates how ideas from positive psychology can help transform mindsets and drive the dual aims of performance and positivity.
This book is an essential read for anyone looking to grow in their professional career while also improving their well-being and happiness, and for leaders who want to enable high performance at work but also want their teams to thrive and be happy.
Part of the Business in Mind series.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Happy high performer
Chapter 3: Superpowers
Chapter 4: People matter
Chapter 5: Finding meaning
Chapter 6: Accomplishment
Chapter 7: Resilience
Chapter 8: Well-being in action and conclusions
About the author
Bob Thomson is a Professor at Warwick Business School. He has many years of experience working in leadership and management development in the energy industry and in higher education. He is accredited as a coach and supervisor by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and is a qualified and experienced mediator. He has written eight previous books on coaching, managing people, and learning from experience. He is the editor of Critical Publishing’s Business in Mind series of books on mental well-being in the workplace.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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