Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce 1st Edition

This book is a must read for anyone looking to increase employee engagement in the multi-generational workplace. Kevin outlines actionable ways to build a culture that recognizes and retains talent. He has clearly completed a great deal of research in a variety of industries to produce this fantastic book.

ABSOLUTELY stellar book and so useful as one focuses on improving a magnetic and engaged culture! I highly recommend this amazing book!

I feel that the “hard stuff” is the “soft stuff.” Unfortunately, many leaders neglect the most important elements this book emphasizes: attracting and retaining talent, helping employees feel they are part of the value their organization creates, increasing employee engagement and driving productivity, improving problem solving and boosting creativity. Culture is set by leaders and lived by all. It must be constantly and consistently fed and nurtured. This book reinforces what great leaders at great companies do!

Building a magnetic culture dont give you tools but the most important thing youhave to pay attention in your company in order to keep your employees engaged. But you don't need to read a whole book fot few good content it provides. Don't buy it!

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"Building a Magnetic Culture" shares many interesting ideas and lots of supporting data. Throughout, an abundance of useful fodder for leaders to digest and act-on. On the other hand, Building a Magnetic Culture's message seems rather ambiguous not because of the content or its relevant reality but more because of Sheridan's presentation style and some of his apparent hypotheses. Falling somewhere between a scholarly research paper and a silver-bullet `how-to ...', Building a Magnetic Culture, from my perspective, does not capture the essence of what true engagement is or how to craft workplace situations that arouse the deep interest and commitment that are characteristic of engagement. Overall, Sheridan enumerates the cost of entry into basic engagement ... without climbing-up to more deeply engaging hearts and minds to achieve great performance.In apparently avoiding taking any hard lines on holding either Managers or Employees responsible for creating engagingly productive workplaces, Sheridan presents no innovative solutions. His ample data analyses are not significantly complemented with solution syntheses ... or an increased urgency for making needed changes. While the writing was interesting (for us curious readers), overall, I don't think "Building a Magnetic Culture" will significantly move many managers toward accepting more responsibility for building engaging workplaces or move many employees toward embracing more responsibility for engaging themselves in their (and their organization's) increased success.Rather, I would encourage considering:for managers: Abraham Zaleznik's "Motivating People", Aubrey Daniel's "Bringing Out the Best in People", Martin Yate's "Keeping the Best: And Other Thoughts on Building a Super Competitive Workforce", and Victor Vroom's "Manage People, Not Personnel",for employees: Barbara Kellerman's "Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders", Frederick Herzberg's "The Motivation to Work", Harvard Business Review's "Managing Yourself for the Career You Want", Ira Chaleff's "The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders", and Kenneth Wayne's "Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement"for both managers and leaders, Peter Block's "Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest" and Robert Kelley's "The Power of Followership: How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow ... and Followers Who Lead Themselves."Each of these writings digs deeper into the roots of engagement and performance and includes helpful recommendations for integrating into our everyday performance.

Building a Magnetic Culture is essential for anyone who is a leader in the workplace, as the book brilliantly illustrates how to improve productivity and engagement amongst employees. Kevin Sheridan has the experience needed regarding employee engagement, and he demonstrates it in the book. He provides specific steps to Building a Magnetic Culture, and provides statistics and research to back up his claims.For new business owners, the aspect of talent acquisition in the book is huge. Sheridan outlines how to obtain talented workers and keep them motivated, ultimately raising the quality of one's company. Sheridan also pays much attention to diversity, a topic of ever-increasing importance. He explains how diversity can enrich a workplace environment, but also how to overcome certain challenges that come with diversity, such as generational differences.Without passion and motivation, it is hard to compete in the business world, and Sheridan makes that clear. Throughout, the emphasis on accountability for both the manager and employees is key. Sheridan gives a genuine account of his experiences, allowing the reader to see the effects of engagement. The book motivates the reader to have a more positive and productive work experience, and ultimately to Build a Magnetic Culture. It is an absolute must for anyone looking to take their workforce to the next level.

This is a must read for any HR professional who is working to build a stronger and more desirable work place (which I hope is all of you).Kevin is truly dialed in to what it takes to create a workplace that people want to come to and won't want to leave. He is direct and clear in his approach and offers a clean framework to think about and evaluate your organization. But beyond this, Kevin offers real world experience, based on running his own organization for years. He is not afraid to share his own stories of failure along with what he learned and how he overcame some very difficult situations. It is this honesty and vulnerability that give his book "the special sauce" that turns this book from a text book in to an enjoyable read about employee engagement. Aside from this, he is a clear expert in the field pulling form thousands of hours he has spent working with and evaluating other organizations on their engagement.Again, for anybody who is inspired by a world of better workplaces, this book is a must. Even if you are familiar with many of these concepts, this book will serve as a refreshing reminder on what we are trying to accomplish and some of the things we need to do to get there.