People Leadership: 30 Proven Strategies to Ensure Your Team's Success

By Gina Folk

Do you find yourself and your employees less engaged and less productive in the workplace than you would like? According to a Gallup poll, more than 70 percent of the American workforce today is “unengaged”—which means that most of the people in your organization are only showing up to work to go through the motions and collect their paycheck. But there’s something you can do to change that.

In People Leadership, Gina Folk covers thirty proven techniques that she learned and utilized during a twenty-five-year career managing people at a Fortune 500 company. Unlike many of the leadership theories you’ll find out there, Folk’s teachings have been implemented and shown to work with real people in real situations. Using Folk’s practices, any individual charged with managing or supervising others at any level can learn to re-engage their employees and improve their company’s productivity—and become the boss they’ve always wanted to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Release date: Apr 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781631529160

Gina Folk

Gina Folk is a dynamic and inspirational leader of people, process, and change. She has more than twenty years of experience helping organizations and individuals to achieve outstanding performance results, and has led global organizations in change efforts that have delivered improvements valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Folk holds an MBA from Belmont University and a BS in psychology and business from Vanderbilt University, and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Visit her website at www.peopleleadership.com.

Reviews for People Leadership

[hjvanderklis_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Gina Folk translated her 20+ years of experience in leading people into leadership lessons on 30 topics in People Leadership: 30 Proven Ways to Increase Employee Engagement and Get Results Now. Though these 30 don't involve any rocket science or ground breaking new insights, application in real life situations at her past employer Nortel, is provided for each of these. Whether it's empowerment, asking for feedback, listening, dealing with difficult people, visioning, or living in the present. the myriad of leadership topics seems endless and interwoven, just like the colorful cover page of the book.Exemplary behaviour, authenticity, honesty, in other words showing good virtues in the work place, having fun, reduce stress, taking responsibility, and showing gratitude, next to the importance of KPIs and process improvements. Recharging your inner battery as well as learning from books, TED Talks and conferences. Folk goes well beyond the average leadership in 10 easy steps approach, though the uniform structure of her chapters become distractive in the second half of the book. Quotes from e.g. Warren Bennis, John C. Maxwell show Folk's influences. Compared to other leadership books is the focus on the team instead of only the leader.