MindFit How to Create a Kickass Workforce to Achieve Long-term Business Excellence

Workplace stress and burnout is a multi-billion-dollar problem affecting organisations.

The impacts of workplace stress and burnout include low productivity and profitability, rampant presenteeism and absenteeism, alarming workplace safety performance and workers compensation claims, poor quality assurance, high negative staff turnover and even, sometimes, work-related suicide. How do you solve such complex problems when the root cause is often nebulous or emotionally-charged?

Workplace mental fitness is the answer.

MindFit introduces Link:Flow:Grow, a breakthrough organisational design and development toolkit that puts workplace mental fitness first. This practical, field-tested solution empowers your workforce to:

●     skyrocket productivity and increase revenue

●     improve workplace safety and reduce workers compensation figures

●     reduce negative staff turnover and restore employee engagement

●     transform organisational culture and address other chronic business challenges.

MindFit introduces a transformative business management paradigm backed by mental fitness stretches, relatable stories, practical insights and handy checklists to empower your Company, your Team and your Self. It’s idealism made practical, complex made cheeky and education made entertaining. Don’t leave work without it!

Kristopher G Harold is a transformational senior manager, the creator of the Link:Flow:Grow methodology, and a founder of LinkPADD.

Alexis Ee-Khem Aw is a versatile word alchemist, self-empowerment enthusiast and marketing communicator at LinkPADD.

John K Williams is an experienced workplace coach, a small business director, and a project director for LinkPADD.

Foreword ix

About the authors xiii

Acknowledgements xvii

Preface xix

Introduction xxv

Part I: Setting the Scene 1

1 Workplace mental fitness 3

2 Burnout 15

3 Link:Flow:Grow 21

4 Shining beyond brightness 31

5 The Intelligent Org Chart (IOC) 37

6 Rock the bands of the IOC 43

7 Who makes things happen? 61

8 HIL climbs are worth the view 69

9 Whole-brain leadership in multi-tone organisations 79

10 The culture rots from the head 85

11 Hello Driver, how’s the weather? 93

12 EveryBest in action 99

Part II: Making It Real 105

13 The IOC: A beacon for change 107

14 Candy shells just don’t satisfy 111

15 The classic slow roll 117

16 Build your people up 123

17 Messing up big time takes seconds 127

18 Say no to being a ‘Yes’ person 133

19 The brilliant destroyer 137

20 Living on a roller coaster 143

21 The rise and rise of the meat robot 149

22 Habits can change 155

23 The one-sided coin 161

24 A key to spectacular success 165

25 Look for the signs 171

26 Fast cars and ninja warriors 177

27 Love the challenge, not the job 181

28 The problem to every solution 185

29 Everyone relax … except HR 189

Conclusion 195

Notes 203

Index 207

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