Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations
Written by Tracy Brower
Narrated by Cyndee Maxwell and Derek Shetterly
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About this audiobook
Using examples and real-world experiences from senior executives and employees, author Tracy Brower tells listeners the importance of work-life supports and how they lead to more engaged and fulfilled employees. Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work is your go-to guide to work-life support, providing easy-to-read strategies for building and implementing your organization's strategies to harness work-life supports, increasing positive impact to your bottom line.
Tracy Brower
Dr. Tracy Brower is a PhD sociologist studying happiness, work-life fulfillment and the future of work. She is the author of The Secrets to Happiness at Work (to be re-released in paperback May 2024) as well as Bring Work to Life. She is the vice president of workplace insights for Steelcase and a senior contributor to Forbes as well as Fast Company and Newsweek. Tracy’s work has been translated into 22 languages and she is an award-winning speaker with over 25 years of experience working with global clients to achieve business results. Tracy is on the board of the United Way of Greater Ottawa County. In addition, she is a coach and advisor for the Center for Leadership at Hope College and an advisor to the Michigan State University Master of Industrial Mathematics Program. In addition, she is on the advisory board for the CoDesign Collaborative, and she is a faculty member for CoreNet Global. Tracy’s work has been featured in TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century (book), Globe and Mail (Canada), InsideHR (Australia), HR Director (UK), T3N (Germany), Real Estate Review Journal, Fortune, Inc. Magazine, HBR (France) and more. Tracy holds a PhD in Sociology, a Master of Management in Organizational Culture, and a Master of Corporate Real Estate with a workplace specialization. You can find her on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Goodreads, Unsplash or at tracybrower.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tracy Brower conducted research, draw from her own experience and interviewed a dozen leaders on ways to Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work. It's not a matter of a perfect balance, it requires arrangements, changes to culture, alignment, rewards and productivity measurement. Many corporations struggle these days with Bring Your Own Device, New Way of Working and implementing ways to serve the various roles employees have both inside and outside the company they work for. Time can be spent only once. What about office hours? Working on a laptop? Should permissions or denials count for everyone? What's the influence of gender and generation cohorts? Brower serves us with a guide where technology, HR arrangements, cultural and social insights support you as team leader or manager. Get more engaged and fulfilled employees. Align your organization's strategies to profit from people with confident with work-life possibilities.