WORK-LIFE BLOOM book - signed by author the Dan Pontefract

"Work-life balance" isn't making anyone happy.

In fact, our relentless attempts to achieve this goal have created workplaces full of stress, discontent, and burnout.

While this workplace disillusionment has been brewing for years, the pandemic helped catalyze a cultural shift of workers redefining themselves beyond what they do for a living. Now, it's time for you to rethink your role as a leader in the nexus of work and life.

In Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, award-winning author Dan Pontefract contends that a thriving workplace isn't about employee engagement levels, nor is it predicated on your team members bringing their "best selves" to work. Instead, it requires you to support the people you manage so they can be their best in work and life.

Just as a flower needs the right mix of sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow, your people need the right mix of work-life factors to create a fulfilling and harmonious existence. Pontefract introduces a new leadership paradigm focused on twelve key work-life factors that determine whether your team members' gardens are able to grow.

Drawing upon primary global research, interviews, and personal experiences, Pontefract delivers a timely blueprint for leaders to cultivate work-life ecosystems where individuals don't just survive—they bloom.

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"In this timely and compelling book, Dan Pontefract uproots outdated ideas about work and tosses them in the compost heap. Then, with a graceful mix of advice and analysis, he shows leaders at every level how to plant new seeds of possibility for themselves and their teams." –Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Power of Regret, When, and Drive

"When people bloom at work and in life, they flourish, and your organization does too. This book offers both soil and seeds—frameworks and tactics—that you can use to help unlock the greatness of your people and teams." –Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

"The best leaders not only enable people to do great work; they help people live a great life. This book will give you the tools to both grow your talent and help everyone on your team." –Liz Wiseman, New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers and Impact Players