Publisher Description
Organizations accomplish results when they powerfully engage employees and capture their discretionary time. This is more important than ever during this period where employees are facing unprecedented time poverty. Technology has blurred the lines between employees’ work and personal lives, and they are faced with the challenges of successfully navigating and integrating work and personal demands. When organizations provide the right benefits, policies, and cultural practices, they win and they serve employees in the process. 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.
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“This book captures one of the most important challenges facing
companies today. No matter the size of the company, the engagement of
the employee base is critical to success. Tracy Brower expertly explores
how leaders can look at all aspects of the work/life conundrum and how
they can create solutions that have great impact on people, the
workplace, and the ultimate positive return that can be produced. This
should be recommended reading for anyone who is truly interested in
having an engaged employee population.”
—
Lisa Brummel, chief people officer, Microsoft
About Tracy Brower
Tracy Brower, PhD, MM, MCR, is a work-environment sociologist studying how humans affect their
work-lives and how their work-lives affect them back. Over her career, Tracy has
had the opportunity to engage with a wide range of corporations, including many Fortune 500 companies as well as a wide range of educational and health-care
organizations. Professionally, she is the Director of Human Dynamics & Work at Herman Miller, Inc. She holds a PhD in the sociology of work as well
as a Masters of Management in organizational effectiveness and a Masters of
Corporate Real Estate. Tracy is also an award-winning speaker and has taught university
courses in management and organizational effectiveness.
About the Narrators
Cyndee Maxwell helps businesses present a professional image with quality
voice-overs for telephone systems, business presentations, training videos and
more from her professional studio in Los Angeles. She
volunteers for the Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles (AIRS-LA) by
providing the voice-over podcast from Sunset Magazine. She received a Gold Award for
Excellence from the Nielsen Company in recognition for her outstanding
contributions to trade publication Radio & Records. And, Radio Ink magazine named her one of its “Most Influential Women
in Radio.” She is also a member of the national MIW (Mentoring and
Inspiring Women in Radio) organization and the Website Producer for KFWB
980 radio station in Los Angeles.
Derek Shetterly is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with a BA in radio/television and a double-minor in theatre and Spanish. He spent twenty-three years in radio as an on-air talent and production director, and it was the creative process in writing, performance, and production and his love for acting that evolved into a passion for voice-over work. He now works as a freelance, full-time voice talent out of his home studio in Oregon. When he’s not in the voice booth, you might find him traveling, fly fishing, mountain biking, or cross-country skiing (depending on the weather).