Engaging Teams: How to use Social Wellbeing to Boost Performance, Retention and Culture

Is disengagement undermining your organization's performance and profitability?

Engaging Teams by Nick Smallman and Dan Parry is a strategic guide for senior leaders and HR executives seeking proven tools for reversing disengagement, driving productivity and strengthening workforce resilience.

Drawing on academic research, business data and C-suite insights, this book offers a blueprint for embedding engagement into leadership, culture and operations. Featuring real-world examples from NASA, Microsoft, Citigroup, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Lenovo, Ikea and Qantas, it shows how to lead change, improve collaboration and sustain performance across diverse teams.

You'll discover how to:
- Build engagement into governance, strategy and leadership practice
- Lead through change and manage multigenerational workforces effectively
- Develop agile thinking, emotional intelligence and critical problem-solving
- Implement feedback systems that drive accountability and results

With strategic models, expert analysis and actionable frameworks, Engaging Teams equips senior decision-makers to deliver measurable gains in motivation, retention and organizational performance.

Themes include: employee engagement strategy, leadership development, governance, organizational culture, workforce resilience