Making Work Work: The Solution for Bringing Positive Change to Any Work Environment

Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment

In Making Work Work, an internationally recognized leadership consultant offers solutions for creating a more positive professional environment using kindness and mutual respect.

Shola Richards had reached the end of the road: after nearly two years at a toxic job, he felt numb and suicidal. So he quit and focused on inspiring current and future leaders in all stages of their careers to start a workplace movement around positivity.

This empowering guide presents Richards’s strategies along with actionable plans. His keys to success include banishing blame and excuses, relentlessly respecting ourselves, maintaining work - separation, recognizing the benefits of having true and lasting friends at work, taking the time to appreciate our colleagues, and dealing with difficult people like bullies. A series of exercises will help you move toward meaningful action.

This encouraging book is a call to action built on a foundation of positivity.

ISBN-13: 9781955884471

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Advantage Media Group - Inc.

Publication Date: 04-25-2023

Pages: 328

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

SHOLA RICHARDS is a dynamic keynote speaker, author of Making Work Work, an award-winning director of training, and a positivity writer with a passionate worldwide following. Shola’s articles have been read by readers in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia, and in numerous other publications all over the world who recognize him as an authority on workplace happiness and engagement.

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“From bullying to gossiping and all manner of disrespect, Richards documents incivility in the workplace with some astounding (and credible) statistics plus, of course, a goodly number of solutions and what-to-do’s about it ... While he debunks myths (positivity will never work; our workplaces are way too broken to fix) and underscores the facts (excuses can destroy your career, kill you, and drive away business), he provides a powerful template to follow as he ranges from defining respect to leading a world change.”
— Booklist

Table of Contents

Introduction

SECTION 1: The Real Work: Why Positivity Is the Solution
Chapter 1: Sunshine, Rainbows, and Kittens: Exploding the Myths of Positivity
Chapter 2: Waiting for Happiness: The Insanity of Inaction
Chapter 3: The Rise of the Solutionists: The Power of Keeping It R.E.A.L.

SECTION 2: The Foundation: Relentless Respect
Chapter 4: Reclaiming Your Edge: The Lie That You’ve Been Told (and Believed)
Chapter 5: Connecting to Your “Hire” Self: Choosing Self-Accountability
Chapter 6: Number One: Relentlessly Respecting Ourselves

SECTION 3: The Lifeblood: Endless Energy
Chapter 7: The Fight You Must Win: Creating an Unstoppable Attitude
Chapter 8: Yes, You’re Here to Make Friends: Building Relationships That Last
Chapter 9: A Starving World: The Power of Appreciation

SECTION 4: The Courage: Addressing the ABCs
Chapter 10: Dealing with the ABCs of Workplace Negativity
Chapter 11: Dealing with the ABCs of Workplace Negativity
Chapter 12: Dealing with the ABCs of Workplace Negativity

SECTION 5: The Spirit: Lasting Leadership
Chapter 13: You’re Already in Charge: Leading without Authority
Chapter 14: Invisible No More: Valuing Everyone
Chapter 15: Death before Life: Becoming a Leader Who Will Change the World

SECTION 6: A New Reality: The Road Ahead
Chapter 16: When Keeping It R.E.A.L. Goes Wrong: Knowing When to Quit
Chapter 17: Positivity Forever: The End of the Beginning

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Discussion Guide
Endnotes

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