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How To Build A Better Workplace
Leadership strategies that unlock trust, performance, and productivity.
For more than four decades, LeRoy Thompson has helped leaders strengthen organizations by improving the conditions in which people work. This book brings those lessons together in one practical, evidence-based guide.
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Your People May Not Be the Problem.
When productivity slips, collaboration breaks down, or employees disengage, leaders often respond with more training, more policies, or more accountability.
But what if the real problem is the workplace itself?
How To Build A Better Workplace explores how leadership behavior, organizational systems, trust, inclusion, communication, and even the way the human brain responds to change can either unlock employee performance—or quietly suppress it.
A Better Workplace Produces Better Results
BUILD TRUST
Create conditions where people feel safe enough to communicate honestly, collaborate, and contribute their best thinking.
INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
Remove unnecessary barriers, workplace friction, and leadership practices that quietly undermine performance.
STRENGTHEN EXECUTION
Improve communication, accountability, decision-making, and the organization’s ability to turn strategy into results.
UNLOCK CONTRIBUTION
Create a culture where people genuinely want to bring their expertise, creativity, and judgment to the work.
Leadership Grounded in How People Actually Work
This is not another book about workplace perks, motivational slogans, or management trends.
Thompson combines decades of organizational consulting experience with insights from neuroscience, organizational development, change management, and human behavior to explain why people respond the way they do at work—and what leaders can do about it.
Readers are introduced to a practical three-phase approach:
NORMALIZE. ANALYZE. IMPLEMENT.
- Normalize the realities of human bias, behavior, and resistance.
- Analyze the systems and workplace conditions influencing performance.
- Implement practical leadership and organizational changes that produce measurable improvement.
Four Decades of Experience. Nearly 200 Organizations. One Consistent Lesson.
LeRoy Thompson, PhD has spent more than forty years helping leaders navigate organizational change, strengthen leadership capability, improve workplace culture, and achieve better results.
His career includes experience with McKinsey & Company, Kepner-Tregoe, and Booz Allen Hamilton, followed by decades leading his own organizational consulting practice.
His clients have included Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, state and local governments, universities, healthcare organizations, associations, and major nonprofit organizations.
A graduate of Harvard University, Columbia Business School, and Trinity Theological Seminary, Thompson is also the author of the award-winning Mastering the Challenges of Change.
“The workplace you create ultimately determines how much of your people’s talent you actually get.”
Read It Before You Buy It.
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Ready to Build a Better Workplace?
If you lead people, influence culture, manage change, advise organizations, or simply believe work can be better than it is today, this book was written for you.
Leadership strategies you can begin applying immediately.
Written for Leaders Who Want Better Results Through Better Workplaces
- CEOs and Executives
- Managers and Supervisors
- HR Leaders
- Organizational Development Professionals
- Change Managers
- Consultants
- Government Leaders
- Nonprofit Executives
- Leadership Development Professionals
Better Workplaces Don't Happen by Accident.
They are created intentionally—through leadership, trust, thoughtful systems, and an understanding of the people who make organizations work.
Leadership is about people first. Performance follows.