BOOM!

Andrew Woods

Description

This is a fantastic story that can easily happen in your company! Let your company come ALIVE with BOOM! A fictitious manager learns from a real Hong Kong based company, with offices throughout APAC, how to release passion, creativity and drive 'The ConnectedWay.' Follow Lisa Zhang as she re-locates to Hong Kong from Toronto and inherits a demotivated work force. Lisa finds great value in the simple principles ConnectedGroup lives by. She takes these back to her own team to re-work and make them their own. BOOM! is an inspiring story of how businesses can adopt principles for invigorating the most important asset - human capital. It is not only a story for your workplace, it is a story for your life.Addressing on of HR's biggest challenges retention and employee engagement. BOOM! uses the simple acronym ALIVE to give the reader 5 key game changing pointers to develop a motivated successful work team.

Sujets

• Gestion et management

Informations

• Publié par: Andrew Woods
• Date de parution: 13 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781909270466
• Langue: English

Extrait

Contents
About the author
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
BOOM!
ASK QUESTIONS
LEVERAGE FUN
INNOVATE
VISUALISE YOUR GOALS
ENERGISE
Afterword
About the author
Andrew Woods is a professional speaker, university lecturer and facilitator of soft-skills training around the globe. The founder of one of the UK’s leading soft-skills training companies, he has provided training workshops for over 300 companies in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, Ireland, Italy and the UK.
Prior to releasing BOOM! he wrote the book "The Case For Soft-Skills Training In China" and has written numerous training courses, newspaper and magazine articles in several countries. He lectures regularly at Hong Kong Shue Yan University and gives motivational talks at universities across mainland China.
An MBA graduate from Cardiff Metropolitan University He lives in Shanghai where he studies Chinese language and culture.
Currently Business Development Director Asia for ConnectedHR a human capital consultancy operating as an independent member of ConnectedGroup [e-mail]
"The BOOM! book and ALIVE workshops are inspiring and have delivered invaluable results for our whole team."
‌– Xie Yu CEO JJ Communication Group Shanghai, China
"BOOM! has helped our team to develop a fun, motivated working environment."
‌– Chen Chong Director ACT Exhibitions Shanghai, China
"Our Hong Kong office has come ALIVE!"
‌– Andrew Payne Director of Technology ConnectedGroup Hong Kong
"BOOM! is awesome! Thank-you for inspiring us."
‌– Nancy Chin Shanghai Jiao Tong University
"BOOM! provided a great framework to motivate Asian work teams."
‌– Eric Ng Chief Operating Officer, Shanghai Beam Digital Technology Co. Ltd

BOOM! A strategy to release passion, creativity and drive the Connected way.
First published by ConnectedHR Press in Hong Kong SAR 2012
Copyright © Andrew Woods and ConnectedHR
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
ISBN 978-1-909270-46-6
Dedication
This book is for everyone who wants to make their place of work come ALIVE, explode with passion and energy and develop an atmosphere where energy and enthusiasm foster innovation and growth. It can happen in your organisation and in your life. It’s BOOM! The Connected Way.
Andrew Woods Chief Happiness Officer ConnectedHR April 2012
Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank the associates at ConnectedGroup who were open, helpful and embracing, often having cameras rolling during the workday and working in a rapidly evolving ALIVE work culture.
Special thanks to Stephen Lundin author of the best seller FISH who read the story and provided amazing advice.
To Kate Harper who first coined the word BOOM! in our company and who has been a huge advocate of ALIVE.
To Mat Gollop Group Managing Director ConnectedGroup for loving the concept of the book, documentary and workshops and letting me bounce ideas off him and contributing on a regular basis.
Foreword
Employee engagement leading to a motivated, productive and stable workforce is the ‘holy grail’. In Asia, talent acquisition is the biggest challenge for every company and, as a consequence, employee retention becomes critical. In multi-cultural environments, engagement becomes an even greater challenge as the criteria for motivating different cultures is not consistent. Finding a single unifying concept under which you can engage across different employee groups can be exasperating. As a business we looked at a number of potential approaches but found that they were often strongly aligned with the Western culture in which they were developed and didn’t necessarily translate into our environment. The concepts we introduced at ConnectedGroup via the ALIVE framework have taken on a life of their own, assuming the ‘BOOM!’ brand and being driven from within the business as opposed to pushed from the top down. It has been a highly gratifying experience as a leader to see people naturally assume accountability and responsibility. Not everything we tried in the spirit of ‘BOOM!’ has worked or appealed to all parties and, sometimes, maintaining momentum is a challenge.