The Engagement Ring

Practical Leadership Skills for Engaging Your Employees

De: Lee Ann Pond

Narrado por: Rosie O'Toole

Employee engagement is a direct reflection of leadership. High levels of engagement lead to increased productivity, lower turnover, and better customer service. When you’re promoted into a new leadership role, do you know how to engage your employees to achieve these results?

It’s likely the technical skills you honed in your previous role won’t help you become a strong leader. You need a new set of skills, but where can you learn them? Don’t expect to find help in leadership books, as most are theory-based. What you need is a guidebook, which is exactly what Lee Ann Pond has written.

The Engagement Ring is a step-by-step guide that gives you specific steps and skills you can use immediately to create more fulfilled, productive, and happier teams - all without spending a dime.

This book covers the basics of leadership development and employee engagement so that you can be equipped to develop your own leadership style moving forward. With the guidance in this book, you’ll become the type of leader capable of positively impacting your team members’ lives - at work and beyond.

©2019 Lee Ann Pond (P)2019 Lee Ann Pond

Short and to the point!

I am only a couple of years into the leadership journey, but I am always reading/listening to a leadership related or personal development book. So, I have read a quite a few. When I first started this book, I didn't expect much from it, I mean what can you expect from a 3 hour listen? I was so wrong. In fact, it felt like at least a handful of books that I had on coaching/mentoring/engagement were all put in this one book. This book was a perfect summary of many books that might need to read on this topic.
The engagement "RING" is in fact an acronym for Relationship, Included, Needed and Growing. Pond goes into each of these topics with scenarios and examples from real life stories from various industries, my favorite being healthcare. Within each of these major topics, she also went into supporting topics e.g. coaching and delegation. She also went on to describe the correct format for those supporting concepts.
What I really liked was that I could convert the concepts/tools described in this book into a checklist.
Narrator: Rosie O'Toole did a fantastic job of narrating this book. It felt like I was listening from the author herself. Her voice clear and without any distractions.
I would highly recommend this book to any emerging leaders, or leaders wanting to refresh/be inspired to increase the engagement in their teams.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.