The Invisible Employee, Chester Elton
The Invisible Employee, Chester Elton
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The Invisible Employee
Realizing the Hidden Potential In Everyone

Author: Chester Elton, Adrian Gostick

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2006


Synopsis

Most employees feel invisible to their leadership—and many times prefer to stay hidden in the corporate shadow lands. The Invisible Employee, part fable, part business advice, teaches managers how to actively engage employees, and find the way to bring out the best in them. This book focuses on how managers can lead people from obscurity to achievement and take companies from ordinary to extraordinary by something as simple as setting a guiding vision, providing rewarding work, and then recognizing the right behaviors.

Like other bestselling business fables, The Invisible Employee combines a good yarn with great business advice and practical guidance for managers. Following a group of people as they attempt to live and work together on a mysterious island, the book combats one of the most common negative attitudes in business—that smart employees should keep quiet, keep their heads down, and try not to draw attention to themselves. The Invisible Employee argues that this attitude undermines our efforts at building great companies and that effective leaders can break their employees of this negative attitude.

The Invisible Employee guides management to learn to engage their staff by setting a clear guiding vision, recognizing the strengths in their employees, and providing a sense of visibility and connection to corporate values and goals. In short, employees feel invisible to corporate leadership because leadership allows them to. This book shows managers how to get involved and lead their people from obscurity to achievement-and reap the rewards across their entire organization.

About Chester Elton

Chester Elton is vice president of performance at the O. C. Tanner Company and a popular public speaker. He has been the subject of feature articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has spoken on the subject of employee recognition and motivation on ABC, CNBC, and NPR. He is coauthor, with Adrian Gostick, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day and The 24-Carrot Manager.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Randy on November 19, 2011

Often times the secret to turning a company around or to making it stand out in the industry is the people. You know, those worker bees that most managers acknowledge but never truly see or listen too. Written in fable form this book will aide any manager with insight into how to inspire his employee......more

Goodreads review by Ric on August 06, 2010

A quick and useful read, this book makes solid and practical arguments for instilling a sense of appreciation into an effectively led workforce. You won't need Kleenex, but you should stock up on thank you notes.......more