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Mark C. Crowley
Move Beyond Engagement to Build Flourishing Teams
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The Power of Employee Well-Being discusses how prioritizing employee well-being enhances productivity, motivation, and overall organizational success. Crowley provides actionable insights for leaders to foster a supportive and thriving work environment.
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The emotional workplace
Here’s a question worth pondering: When did emotions get such a bad reputation in the workplace?
Wind the clock back to ancient Greece, and you’ll find Plato arguing that emotions and logic worked in harmony – two essential forces powering human behavior and decision-making. But this balanced view didn’t last. Over time, reason and emotion became separated, with logic elevated to the superior position. Descartes famously declared “I think, therefore I am” – not “I feel, therefore I am” – effectively sidelining emotions as unreliable and irrelevant to our existence.
Conventional office culture has largely followed Descartes’ lead. Reason and logic reign supreme, while emotions are treated as distractions to be managed, suppressed, or left at the door. Feelings, in this view, have no place in professional decision-making.
Except research tells us something quite different. Scientists at the Salk Institute have demonstrated that even when we believe we’re being entirely rational, our feelings are quietly steering our thought processes. Researchers at Yale go further, estimating that up to 95 percent of our decisions and behaviors are driven by emotion alone.
This matters enormously in the workplace. What truly drives productivity, loyalty, well-being, and commitment isn’t how managers make employees think – it’s how they make them feel. Emotions aren’t just background noise; they’re valuable data. Stress, anxiety, fear, and worry corrode well-being and performance. Happiness, confidence, and a sense of importance do the opposite – they inspire and energize.
So how do managers cultivate these powerful, positive emotions? By caring about employees as whole people. This means creating opportunities for growth and development, offering coaching and support, building confidence, and showing employees how their work creates genuine impact.
When organizations finally embrace emotions as central to workplace success, they unlock well-being’s true transformative power.
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What is The Power of Employee Well-Being about?
The Power of Employee Well-Being (2025) argues for abandoning engagement metrics in favor of addressing workers’ full spectrum of needs, from emotional health to autonomy. This shift to well-being creates workplaces where both people and performance genuinely thrive, delivering results that engagement programs could never achieve.
Who should read The Power of Employee Well-Being?
- HR teams aiming to transform engagement strategies into true well-being initiatives
- Managers seeking to inspire loyalty through authentic care and support
- Founders who want to build thriving workplaces where people and profits rise together
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