Wellbeing at work

Wellbeing at Work:  How to Design, Implement and Evaluate an Effective Strategy, by Ian Hesketh and Cary Cooper, KoganPage, 2019 

Picked up this book thinking would find exercises and health plans to build an energized, happy workforce!  Isn't that what we all want?  The authors offer a complete system of strategy, exercises, communication skills, and another way of thinking about how to treat people in the workforce, and it's the first time have seen this very thorough approach to keeping the human asset up and running.

But, the authors warn, their whole approach is not one that would be used by elite athletes, and it is unrealistic and potentially destructive to approach the workforce that way.  While Olympians  and world champions like Federer and Nadal might let nothing and no one interfere with their training, with us ordinary working people, that won't quite make it.  What we need and what Hasketh and Cooper give us is a simple vision, and exercises to build our operation's human skills that turn thoughts into practical workplace strategies.  "This book will take you through the selection, ownership, management, servicing and repair of your most valuable of assets:  your people.  With practice in mind, will cover all the points required to get a people strategy off the ground," say the authors. 

Patricia E. Moody

FORTUNE magazine  "Pioneering Woman in Mfg" 

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A Mill Girl at Blue Heron Journal, on-line resource for business thought-leaders and decision-makers, pemoody@aol.com, patriciaemoody@gmail.com, tricia@patriciaemoody.com,