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Being a good leader isn’t just about making decisions – it’s about motivating your team, building trust, and creating a workplace where people want to do their best. For leaders, staying informed and learning new strategies is key to keeping your team engaged. To help, these five books offer practical tips and ideas for leaders who want to make a real difference. These books cover everything from how to think like a leader to getting the best out of your team, giving you tools to inspire and engage the people you lead.
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In Meaning Over Purpose, leadership strategist Angela Rixon argues that employee disengagement isn’t caused by a lack of purpose, but by a failure to make work meaningful. With burnout high, hybrid work reshaping connection, generational expectations shifting, and AI transforming roles, organisations struggle to translate purpose statements into lived experience. Rixon introduces the Meaning Over Purpose™ Blueprint, a practical leadership system that embeds meaning into strategy, behaviour, and culture. It combines the Five Pillars of Meaningful Work™ (Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose, Connection, Impact), Lead with Meaning™ behaviours, and Meaning Metrics™ to measure real engagement. Through case studies, diagnostic tools, and actionable frameworks, the book shows leaders how to operationalise meaning at every level. Purpose may attract talent, but meaning retains it - and becomes a sustainable performance advantage in today’s disruptive, high-pressure workplace.
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The Leader Engagement Gap isn’t your usual leadership handbook - it’s a wake-up call. Most engagement efforts fail because they forget the most important factor: whether leaders themselves are engaged. This book introduces Strengths-Activated Engagement™, a practical approach that helps leaders discover what energises them, so they can bring that energy to their teams and the whole organisation. Packed with real stories, useful tips, and a fresh framework, it shows leaders how to reconnect with their purpose, inspire their people, and create a workplace where everyone can thrive. Whether you’re an executive, manager, HR professional, or board member, this book gives you tools to lead with energy, boost engagement, and make a real difference every day.
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In Employee Engagement 2.0, Kevin Kruse shows leaders how to turn ordinary teams into highly motivated, high-performing groups, without huge budgets or extra time. Drawing on research and real-world experience as a Best Place to Work winner and advisor to organisations from Fortune 500 companies to the US Marines, Kruse provides a practical, step-by-step guide to employee engagement. The book explains what engagement really means (it’s more than happiness or satisfaction), how it drives performance, and how to measure it effectively. Leaders learn the “secret recipe” for inspiring discretionary effort, boosting morale, and creating a culture people want to be part of. With tools such as targeted questions, communication systems, and an 8-week implementation plan, this book equips leaders to build teams that are motivated, aligned, and ready to achieve exceptional results.
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This book is a hands-on guide for leaders and educators who want to make virtual meetings and online learning more engaging and fun. It shows how to turn boring, routine sessions into moments people enjoy and remember. Each chapter answers real questions leaders have, like how to get people participating, how to run smooth meetings, how to make presentations interactive, and how to build a strong remote team culture. Video tutorials, practical exercises, and ready-to-use tips make it easy to apply ideas right away. The Five Ingredients for Engagement™ give a simple framework for boosting connection, contribution, and team effectiveness. Perfect for facilitators, trainers, coaches, or anyone stuck leading a meeting, this book is packed with tools to make virtual or hybrid sessions more interactive, energising, and impactful.
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Employee Engagement: What Else? is for leaders who want work to feel meaningful every single day, not just look good on paper. Engagement is all about helping people feel motivated, connected, and genuinely excited to show up and do their best. With fewer than 20% of employees truly engaged, this book shows why it matters and provides practical ways for leaders to make a big difference in the lives of their teams. Drawing on real examples from the United Arab Emirates, the book is full of practical tips, stories, and easy-to-use strategies. Whether you’re a CEO, manager, or team leader, it gives you tools to turn talk into action, create a workplace people love, and make engagement a real driver of productivity, innovation, and success.
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In Meaning Over Purpose, leadership strategist Angela Rixon argues that employee disengagement isn’t caused by a lack of purpose, but by a failure to make work meaningful. With burnout high, hybrid work reshaping connection, generational expectations shifting, and AI transforming roles, organisations struggle to translate purpose statements into lived experience. Rixon introduces the Meaning Over Purpose™ Blueprint, a practical leadership system that embeds meaning into strategy, behaviour, and culture. It combines the Five Pillars of Meaningful Work™ (Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose, Connection, Impact), Lead with Meaning™ behaviours, and Meaning Metrics™ to measure real engagement. Through case studies, diagnostic tools, and actionable frameworks, the book shows leaders how to operationalise meaning at every level. Purpose may attract talent, but meaning retains it - and becomes a sustainable performance advantage in today’s disruptive, high-pressure workplace.
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The Leader Engagement Gap isn’t your usual leadership handbook - it’s a wake-up call. Most engagement efforts fail because they forget the most important factor: whether leaders themselves are engaged. This book introduces Strengths-Activated Engagement™, a practical approach that helps leaders discover what energises them, so they can bring that energy to their teams and the whole organisation. Packed with real stories, useful tips, and a fresh framework, it shows leaders how to reconnect with their purpose, inspire their people, and create a workplace where everyone can thrive. Whether you’re an executive, manager, HR professional, or board member, this book gives you tools to lead with energy, boost engagement, and make a real difference every day.
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In Employee Engagement 2.0, Kevin Kruse shows leaders how to turn ordinary teams into highly motivated, high-performing groups, without huge budgets or extra time. Drawing on research and real-world experience as a Best Place to Work winner and advisor to organisations from Fortune 500 companies to the US Marines, Kruse provides a practical, step-by-step guide to employee engagement. The book explains what engagement really means (it’s more than happiness or satisfaction), how it drives performance, and how to measure it effectively. Leaders learn the “secret recipe” for inspiring discretionary effort, boosting morale, and creating a culture people want to be part of. With tools such as targeted questions, communication systems, and an 8-week implementation plan, this book equips leaders to build teams that are motivated, aligned, and ready to achieve exceptional results.
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This book is a hands-on guide for leaders and educators who want to make virtual meetings and online learning more engaging and fun. It shows how to turn boring, routine sessions into moments people enjoy and remember. Each chapter answers real questions leaders have, like how to get people participating, how to run smooth meetings, how to make presentations interactive, and how to build a strong remote team culture. Video tutorials, practical exercises, and ready-to-use tips make it easy to apply ideas right away. The Five Ingredients for Engagement™ give a simple framework for boosting connection, contribution, and team effectiveness. Perfect for facilitators, trainers, coaches, or anyone stuck leading a meeting, this book is packed with tools to make virtual or hybrid sessions more interactive, energising, and impactful.
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Employee Engagement: What Else? is for leaders who want work to feel meaningful every single day, not just look good on paper. Engagement is all about helping people feel motivated, connected, and genuinely excited to show up and do their best. With fewer than 20% of employees truly engaged, this book shows why it matters and provides practical ways for leaders to make a big difference in the lives of their teams. Drawing on real examples from the United Arab Emirates, the book is full of practical tips, stories, and easy-to-use strategies. Whether you’re a CEO, manager, or team leader, it gives you tools to turn talk into action, create a workplace people love, and make engagement a real driver of productivity, innovation, and success.
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