Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In

by Ryan Jenkins, Steven Van Cohen

Overview

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Connect your workforce, improve engagement, and drive productivity to undreamed-of levels

Feelings of loneliness among employees are on the rise with 72% of global workers suffering from it. This sense of isolation is contributing to a real and growing mental health problem that affects both individuals and organizations.

In Connectable, you’ll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that’s happier, more engaged, and more productive. With more than a decade of experience spent helping companies lessen worker loneliness, Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen distill their methodology, showing you what’s causing today’s loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level―including yourself. You’ll learn how to:

• Identify lonely or burned out employees
• Build psychological safety within a team
• Create environments of belonging and inclusion
• Cultivate meaningful connections across team members (in person or remote)
• Build committed, driven, and high-performing organizations using the authors’ proprietary 4-step Less Loneliness Framework™

Jenkins and Van Cohen provide the perfect balance of science, statistics, stories, and strategies to help you move everyone on your team from isolated to all-in.

Discover what ATMs, cocaine, Red Sox fans, and time travel have to do with moving teams from disconnected to connected. Connectable delivers the information, insights, and actionable strategies needed to awaken a renewed sense of connection throughout your organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264277506
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/02/2022
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	487,768
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ryan Jenkins, CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™), is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker and three-time published author. He speaks all over the world to companies such as State Farm, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Liberty Mutual, and John Deere. For a decade, he has been helping organizations create engaged, inclusive, and high-performing teams by lessening worker loneliness and closing generational gaps. Ryan’s top-ranked insights have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also co-founder of LessLonely.com, the world’s first resource fully dedicated to reducing worker isolation and strengthening team connections. Ryan lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife, three children, and yellow Labrador.

Steve Van Cohen, MSOD (Master of Science in Organizational Development), is a global leadership consultant, executive coach, and two-time published author. He has worked with hundreds of leaders from organizations such as Salesforce, The Home Depot, Komatsu, Bank of America and Bridgestone. He has spent his career helping organizations humanize their businesses by creating workplaces where people come first. Steve has been featured in Forbes, Association for Talent Development, and Training Magazine. He is also co-founder of LessLonely.com, the premier resource dedicated to lessening worker loneliness. Steve holds a BA from the University of Illinois and a MS from Pepperdine University. Steven lives in San Juan Capistrano, CA, with his wife and two daughters.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 Loneliness, a Silent Sweeping Epidemic

Chapter 1 The Loneliness Lowdown 3

Chapter 2 The Modern Causes of Loneliness 21

Chapter 3 Loneliness at Work 47

Part 2 Belonging, The Antidote to Loneliness

Chapter 4 The Science of Belonging (Steven's favorite chapter!) 67

Chapter 5 Belonging at Work 83

Chapter 6 The Less Loneliness Framework 105

Part 3 How to Lessen Loneliness and Boost Belonging at Work

Chapter 7 Look at Loneliness 117

Chapter 8 Invest in Connection 147

Chapter 9 Narrow the Focus 195

Chapter 10 Kindle the Momentum 219

Chapter 11 Be Interruptible (Ryan's favorite chapter!) 245

Conclusion 261

Appendix Overview and Applications 269

Mental Health Resources 275

Acknowledgments 277

Notes 281

Index 295