Connectedness: How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World - Hardcover

by Des Dearlove (Author), Lisa Humphries (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

Recent studies indicate that 94% of employees are more productive when they feel connected to their colleagues and are twice as likely to stay at their jobs. Other research suggests that most employees value corporate environments even more highly than compensation levels when evaluating whether to stay or leave a position. And, as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, building strong human connections at work has never been more important.

In Connectedness: How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World, distinguished management theorist and business journalist Des Dearlove and Lisa Humphries deliver a startlingly insightful new take on how businesses can forge powerful, meaningful, and authentic connections with their employees. These bonds will increase productivity, improve talent retention, and help to create an enduring competitive advantage.

The book explains why the latest peer-reviewed research supports the idea that it is the nature of interpersonal environments, rather than compensation, that many employees believe is the most important determinant in job retention.

Connectedness walks you through the most important factors to consider when building a connected working environment and describes the most common mistakes and myths about employee well-being that will sidetrack your managerial efforts to improve working culture at your firm. You'll also find examples and case studies that demonstrate the real-world impact of the ideas presented in the book.

Perfect for executives, managers, directors, and other business leaders doing their best to improve employee retention, engagement, productivity, and health, Connectedness is also a can't-miss resource for frontline employees, human resources professionals, consultants, and anyone else with an interest in--or responsibility for--employee well-being, safety, and productivity.

Back Jacket

Improve employee retention, productivity, well-being, and health by creating a connected, human workplace

Connectedness: How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World, by business journalist and management theorist Des Dearlove and Lisa Humphries is a singular discussion of how to create and maintain an environment of authentic human connection in your workplace that increases productivity, improves safety and health, encourages talent recruitment and retention, and creates an enduring competitive advantage.

The authors discuss the most critical factors that determine the connectedness of a vibrant working culture. They also describe the most common mistakes that managers make when trying to transform and improve the working environment in their company, and the myths that many of us buy into around employee well-being and connection.

You'll find case studies and examples that illustrate and highlight the potential real-world impact of the concepts discussed within, and why it's the nature of the interpersonal environment at your firm--not compensation levels--that largely decide whether your employees will stay or move on.

An essential book for managers, executives, and directors, Connectedness is also a must-read for entrepreneurs, founders, human resources professionals, and anyone else interested in boosting your organization's bottom line.

Author Biography

DES DEARLOVE is a British business journalist and management theorist whose work focuses on the history and state-of-the-art in management theory. He is the Co-founder of Thinkers50, the first global ranking of management thinkers.

LISA HUMPHRIES is a freelance editor and writer, specializing in business and management theory. She has edited, curated, and researched business books and articles for a global portfolio of clients and is a contributing editor for Thinkers50.