Build a Flourishing Workplace Culture Where Everyone Thrives

What makes for a flourishing workplace?

Many organizations find themselves spinning their wheels in work cultures filled with toxicity, dysfunction, conflict, and fear. Unengaged employees drag down productivity, and ineffective management undermines morale. How can we create workplaces where people don't just struggle to get through the day but instead thrive and love what they do and where they work?

Road to Flourishing by Best Christian Workplaces Institute cofounder and CEO Al Lopus is a research-backed guide to building a healthy workplace culture where employees are engaged and people at every level can flourish. Lopus has studied hundreds of organizations to discover eight key drivers in companies with a healthy culture and engaged employees.

He gathers best practices from across a range of companies and ministries to demonstrate how people at all levels can work together to accomplish work that matters. Principles and real-life examples provide concrete ways that organizations can flourish by building fantastic teams, cultivating life-giving work, attracting and retaining outstanding talent, and much more.

What you will find in Road to Flourishing:



- Decades of research brought to life with real stories and case studies

- How to foster a healthy workplace culture that honors God and helps both people and the organization thrive

- Insight for leading an organization through change

- Wisdom for choosing the kind of workplace you want to work in

This book is for leaders, managers, and teams who believe that caring for people and accomplishing the mission belong together. With compelling case studies, behind-the-curtain revelations, and enlightening personal anecdotes, Road to Flourishing will motivate leaders, managers, and their teams to reimagine, reassess, and renew their commitment to building healthy work cultures where everyone can flourish.



Peter Greer is president and CEO of HOPE International, a global nonprofit working to alleviate physical and spiritual poverty in 29 countries around the world. Peter's favorite part of his role is spending time with the remarkable entrepreneurs HOPE serves. A graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School, Peter has co-authored over 15 books, including Lead with Prayer, Mission Drift, Rooting for Rivals, and How Leaders Lose Their Way. While his sports loyalties remain in New England, he lives with his wife, Laurel, and their four children in Lancaster, PA.



Al Lopus is the president and CEO of the Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI), which provides research-based measurement tools and strategic advisory services with a single vision: to help Christian organizations set the standard as the best, most effective workplaces in the world. At BCWI, Al has pioneered the broadest-ever employee engagement survey of Christian workers. To date, the survey has involved more than 1,000 Christian organizations, with employees completing over 300,000 survey questionnaires.

Prior to cofounding BCWI, Al served for over twenty years in leadership roles with the global human resource consulting firm Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson), where he built a reputation for his vision and implementation of human capital programs for clients such as Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and USAA. A former board member of Christian Leadership Alliance, Al currently serves on the association's advisory council. He also served on the Board of Trustees for Virginia Mason Medical Center, a five-thousand-employee, award-winning healthcare organization. He and his wife, Kathy, are the parents of two adult daughters.



Foreword by Peter Greer



Preface



1. From Toxic to Flourishing: The Eight Keys to a Transformed Culture



2. Fantastic Teams



3. Life-Giving Work



4. Outstanding Talent



5. Uplifting Growth



6. Rewarding Compensation



7. Inspirational Leadership



8. Sustainable Strategy



9. Healthy Communication



10. Journey Inward, Journey Forward: Your First Steps on the Road to Flourishing



Acknowledgments



Appendix: Workplace Culture Pulse Survey



Notes