Synopses & Reviews
With employee engagement between 26-30 percent leaders are looking for ways to engage untapped employee potential and maximize their capital investment in HR.
A new business paradigm is emerging in the twenty-first century where an organization's culture is the most important and valuable asset a company has to attract, engage, and retain top talent. The most successful corporations in the world are values-driven and consciously invest in building their workplace culture so that it aligns with the personal values of their people.
Values are a source of life-force energy that come from within. They inspire and motivate us and embody our heart and soul. Study of contextual cardiology has demonstrated the existence and power of the heart's energy. We experience this in the form of emotional intelligence and intuition. The more leaders practice connecting with their emotional intelligence (emotions such as love, compassion, loyalty, and trust), the more effective they will be at leading themselves and others. This is because employees are looking for leaders they can trust and who care for others, want to make a difference, and contribute to society.
A facilitative leadership style is the key to transforming an organization and creating a culture of engagement. It moves people from being focused on "me" (self-interest) to "we" (common good). Facilitative leaders unify the organization, connect hearts and minds, empower employees to bring their best selves to work, and create a WOW culture where employees love what they do.
The book contains unique tools for inner and outer transformation, along with case studies and worksheets to support leaders' journeys of culture change to measure, map, and manage cultural transformation. What you measure you can manage.
Organizational transformation begins with the personal transformation of the leaders because organizations don't change; it's the people in them who do. Leaders learn how to "walk the talk" and be the change they want to see.
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Conscious Culture , leaders learn how to build a high-performing culture by awakening the life-force energy within values, ethics, and leadership that strengthens engagement, fuels performance, and builds trust to unite organizations.
Synopsis
Change is the new norm in society, and it's having a devastating impact on organizations. The proof? Insecure, demoralized employees and the lowest levels ever of employee engagement. North America employee engagement is between 26-30 percent, and in Asia it's between 6-12 percent. That's a lot of untapped employee potential!
In Conscious Culture, Joanna Barclay shares thirty years of business transformation experience. Leaders learn how to awaken the life-force energy within values, ethics, and leadership that ignites performance and employee engagement. With the ABCs of culture change, she provides a blueprint for leaders to consciously create a high-performing, values-driven organization.
Values energize us-they give us joy when they are lived and frustration when they are not. They embody our heart and soul, calling us to action and helping us perform to our highest potential.
Leaders will learn the importance of facilitative leadership and how to tap the wisdom of the group, unify employees, and connect hearts and minds to create a WOW culture.
Conscious Culture is for leaders who want to:
· become an employer of choice and build a high-performing work environment
· learn how to generate greater engagement and increase productivity
· build a new culture after a merger or acquisition
· transition from personal excellence to organizational excellence
How are you consciously investing in your culture-or do you have unconscious, default culture?
"In 2011, Joanna was integral in transforming my client engagement network from a loose committee to a strong leadership team. This was achieved through the use of the Barrett's Cultural Transformation Tools. But the best tool of all was Joanna herself."
Daniel Leclair, director general, Public Works and Government Services Canada
About the Author
Joanna Barclay is the founder of TLC Facilitation, a company of certified professional facilitators and culture change consultants. Joanna has thirty years of experience in business transformation and leadership development, working with teams, leaders, and culture to create high-performing, values-driven organizations. She is a yoga and meditation instructor and also teaches stress management to improve physical wellbeing and mental clarity. Joanna is Canadian director of the TLEX Program (Transformational Leadership for Excellence), delivered by the International Association of Human Values.
Conscious Culture is her first venture into the publishing business.
Table of Contents
Figures, Tables and Worksheets
Preface
Acknowledgements
Servant Leadership Background
Introduction: World Forum for Ethics in Business
Part 1-Building a Values-Driven Organization
Chapter 1-The ABCs of High Performance
Chapter 2-The Cultural Divide
Chapter 3-Beneath the Surface
Part 2-Currents in the Sea of Change
Chapter 4-Core Challenges
Chapter 5-Winds of Change
Chapter 6-Navigating Rough Seas
Part 3-Tools for Inner and Outer Transformation
Chapter 7-Tools For Inner Transformation The TLEX Program
Chapter 8-Cultural Transformation Tools
Chapter 9-Conscious Leadership
Part 4-Dawning of a New Age
Chapter 10-21st Century Paradigm Shift
Chapter 11-Cultural Capital with Share of Heart
Chapter 12-Conscious Awakening
About the Author
Annex - Now What?
Bibliography