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30 Days to a Happy Employee: How a Simple Program of Acknowledgment Can Build Trust and Loyalty at Work
by Dottie Bruce Gandy
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Fireside (2001-06-14)
ISBN: 068487329X
EAN: 9780684873299
Dewey Decimal #: 658.314
Paperback: 208 pages
SKU: 9D-P9PM-6I4J
Condition: Good
Comments: 1979 first edition. Minor wear to bottom right front corner. Very clean and bright pages and binding is extremely tight. Does not appear to have been read. We ship same or next day, Monday-Saturday.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
It's not more money, bigger offices, better benefits, or flextime. Recent surveys reveal that the number one reason employees quit their jobs is that they don't feel valued on a human level. Growing employment opportunities and the lure of Internet companies have brought this prob- lem to near crisis level. Now, Dottie Gandy, a former regional director with the Franklin Covey Company, provides a simple, principle-based solution that will work to solve the problem in any business. In this clear, straight-foward book, she gives us a step-by-step plan that managers can implement immediately and which yields compelling results, including: A strong sense of loyalty and commitment among employees
A new corporate culture built on a foundation of trust and designed to weather storms
A renewed sense of mission that can have a substantial impact on the bottom line
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Customer Reviews
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Awful and not very useful
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-08-15
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Here is the summary
"Say one nice thing/day to an employee for 30 days and magically they will be happier and more productive". That's it really. The entire book is just endless examples of how companies have used that advice to find harmony in the work place.
The author sells seminars that cover the principles of this book so the book feels like a plug for those services. Kinda like the E-Myth which is another very overrated book.
This book was useless and not very realistic. It takes more to keep employees happy. Work environment, pay, opportunity for advancement, training, and etc are all critical elements. Sure acknowledgment is important but you don't need to read 150 pages just to point that out. I gave up after 90 pages.
The advice in this book is also somewhat geeky. Difficult employee or unmotivated employees aren't going to easily accept a formal 30 day period of compliments (geeeeeky!) I expected to hear about how to handle difficult employees to make them more productive or make happy employees of people that aren't that well educated or how to keep people happy when you can't afford to pay them that much. There is nothing in this book that helped me. The book is also geared towards office environments.
Do yourself a favor and pass on this.
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Pick up a simple habit, and promote trust and harmony
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-07-12
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Trust and acceptance are the most important tenets of human relations and teamwork. Most self-help books suggest ways to build trust and learn to accept others despite their faults and weaknesses. However, most require you to change, and shed some of your negativity. I know how gruesome that is! To trust another requires fully accepting the other, transcending your own tendencies to criticize, judge, and inadvertently notice others' faults. How can we really help ourselves and others change and improve? This book provides the answer.Another gospel for building trust and acceptance is to extend and express love unconditionally! Is it easy to overlook others' faults and weaknesses in order to let our love flow to them? How can we transcend our judgments to support their endeavor unhindered? This book has paved a way for us. In the corporate setting, where performance assessment (even 360 degree evaluation) is the norm, and `employee development' an important goal, we often resort to `constructive criticism' -- identify weaknesses (guised as areas for improvement) and create training and developmental plans. How well does the process work? Wouldn't the employees perform far better if we were to highlight their strengths, and give them credit for, and the freedom to exploit, their own capabilities, dreams and desires? This book confirms that notion, and has suggested a practical approach. A 30 year corporate veteran, Dottie Gandy in her book "30 Days to a Happy Employee" has given a simple and practical, yet profound formula to overcome our interpersonal barriers, to transcend our tendencies to be critical and judgmental, in fact to build a habit of seeing goodness in others. Deliberate and sincere acknowledgement of goodness in those we deal with easily builds trust, acceptance and human rapport, as well as inspires others to perform par excellence, promotes harmony and loyalty, which in turn result in higher productivity, lower turnover, and healthy team environment. This book has laid out a step-by-step process of acknowledgment for 30 days in order to develop the `habit of acknowledgment'. Knowing the challenge involved and anticipating inevitable psychological barriers, the author has offered strategies to overcome any tendency to give up half way through, and complete the 30-day process. I call this 30-day acknowledgment process a magic formula for human development. If I form the habit of looking for, and acknowledging on purpose, goodness in others, the very act will breed goodness in myself. This is a proactive and constructive approach as opposed to negative-elimination approaches that require shedding a bad habit, or ignoring faults, or making an improvement, and the like. You can apply the 30-day acknowledgment process to yourself, to your family members and friends, to your colleagues at work, to your subordinates and superiors. As you acknowledge traits of goodness in your `subject', this reinforces their own belief in themselves, and because the spark came from a significant other, it generates trust and loyalty. And, finally, your `habit of acknowledgment' will easily connect you with others. I strongly recommend this book as a practical treatise on developing human relations and on letting the human potential bloom at work, at home, and in society at large.
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Required reading for corporate leaders.
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-06-17
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
As the President of a new technology consulting company, I am excited to have this method for enhancing and strengthening relationships through the process of acknowledgement! The information, examples, and step-by-step approach contained in this book make it required reading for anyone in corporate leadership and anyone that would like to strengthen personal relationships at work, at home, or in community service. "30 Days To A Happy Employee" will go on my bookshelf between "7 Habits" and "Who Moved My Cheese." I purchased a copy of "30 Days" for each of my customer's Presidents, and for all the partners in my company!Many thanks to Dottie Gandy!
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Inspiring!
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-06-02
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked up Ms. Gandy's book last night on my way home from work and read it from cover to cover before I ever made it to bed. Once I started, I was hooked. As a new manager for a nonprofit agency, I am concerned with starting off on the right foot. Our agency recently lost several employees and I know that morale was a factor for at least one of them. I want to do what I can to retain the employees we do have and to attract good candidates for our open positions. I believe Ms. Gandy hit the nail on the head when she identified acknowledgment as the key factor in job satisfaction. I know that is true for myself and I am sure it is for my employees, as well. In fact I accepted this position because the director, during my interview, did such a wonderful job of acknowledging my own skills. It's one thing to know something and another thing alltogether to put it into practice. While I've always known the power of acknowledgement, I've never been quite sure how to practice it on a regular basis to improve my work relationships. Ms. Gandy's book gives a simple formula for making ascknowledgment a habit. I can't wait to using it on Monday!
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The Power of Acknowledgement
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-05-31
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Few books have come long that inspire employers to go beyond expensive incentive and reward programs to give employees what they really want...simple appreciation and acknowledgement.This book takes care of this omission in short fashion. It is direct, clear, simple, and powerful in its ability to bring new tools to the everyday employer looking to improve his/her powers of perception as well as his/her bottom line. A gem among the many options available, not only to employers, but those seeking to improve relationships in family and in marriage. This book covers it all!
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