Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team that Flourishes
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team that Flourishes
By (Author) Dan Pontefract
Figure 1 Publishing
Figure 1 Publishing
14th February 2024
Canada
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Description
A thought-provoking and empowering book that will inspire leaders to take a fresh look at a new coalescence between work and life.
In Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, award-winning author Dan Pontefract takes a fresh look at integrating our professional and personal lives. Just as a flower needs the right mix of sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow and thrive, team members need the right mix of work-life factors to create a fulfilling and harmonious existence. Through primary global research, interviews, and personal experience, Pontefract delves into the current state of work and life, offering practical solutions for leaders and organizations to create environments where teams can flourish.
Pontefract argues that there really is no such thing as work-life balance: our rigid attempts to achieve it don't reflect current realities, and are in fact leading us to further burnout, stress, and unhappiness. Instead, he encourages a more holistic approach, promoting the idea of "blooming" in both work and life. Pontefract stresses that for people to succeed, they must reach fulfillment through the integration of work and the personal aspects of life. After all, people bring their work into their lives and their lives into their work; an improved integration is necessary.
Pontefract introduces six key work factors trust, belonging, feeling valued, purpose, strategy, and norms and six life factors relationships, skills, well-being, meaning, agency, and respect essential for creating an integrated work-life ecosystem that genuinely blooms. The 12 factors contain practical solutions and strategies for leaders who want to nurture Work-Life Bloom environments for their team members, and achieve this mindset for themselves.
With a unique approach and vivid writing, Work-Life Bloom is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their impact as a leader.
Author Bio
Dan Pontefract is a renowned, award-winning leadership strategist with four books, four TED Talks, and four hundred thousand touchpoints over his career. If youre thinking about leadership and organizational culture and how they can become a competitive advantage, Dan can help. Between 1998 and 2018 Dan held senior executive roles at firms including SAP, TELUS, and Business Objects, leading corporate culture change, leadership development, employee experience and overall performance improvement. Ever since, he has worked with organizations around the world including the likes of Salesforce, Amgen, State of Tennessee, Canada Post, Autodesk, Government of Indonesia, Manulife, Nutrien, City of Toronto, among many others. He has on-the-ground experience of what it takes to turn leadersand by extension your entire corporate cultureinto a competitive advantage. His four award-winning and best-selling leadership / management books include Lead. Care. Win., Open to Think, The Purpose Effect, and Flat Army. Dan is honoured to be on the Thinkers50 Radar list. HR Weekly listed him as one of its 100 Most Influential People in HR. PeopleHum listed Dan on the Top 200 Thought Leaders to Follow and Inc. Magazine listed him as one of the top 100 leadership speakers. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 25 industry, individual, and book awards over his career. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
