New Book Reveals the Secret to Creating an Irresistible Work Culture
Two-thirds of Americans HATE their jobs. Two-thirds. This is largely due to unhealthy work environments—and, besides making people miserable, this reality costs organizations big time in revenue, growth, and innovation.
William Vanderbloemen wanted to know what was wrong with traditional workplaces and how to make them better by creating ones where people LOVE to go to work. The founder and CEO of Vanderbloemen Search Group started by looking at his own company which has won culture awards from places like Entrepreneur and the Houston Business Journal and then turned to other leaders of thriving work cultures like HubSpot, Zappos, and BELAY.
He found similarities in rationale and approaches like frequent performance reviews, thoughtful hiring processes, and an interest in employees’ nonwork lives, and used them to pen the revolutionary Culture Wins: The Roadmap to an Irresistible Workplace, published by Savio Republic, and available today. Culture Wins, a practical yet challenging guidebook, is the first to show forward-thinking leaders how to transform job-hopping cultures into ones where people can’t wait to go to work.
Its insights are needed now more than ever as baby boomers begin to retire—and stepping into their places are millennials, the first generation on record to want meaningful work more than anything else.
“The earth has quaked, and the tidal waves are coming,” said Vanderbloemen. “In the coming decade, your older employees are going to retire at a faster rate and leave an enormous vacuum of open positions. I hope people who aren’t aware of the impending workforce tsunami read this book because they need to get ahead of it as soon as possible to survive.”
Vanderbloemen, who has contributed to outlets like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Inc., and Fast Company about culture, is available to discuss topics such as:
- The serious danger of tying compensation to performance
- Telltale signs of a healthy workplace culture
- Top warning signs you have an unhealthy workplace culture
- 3 ways to fix a toxic work culture
- Why all leaders should hire slowly and fire quickly
- Why leaders should try to convince job candidates to NOT to take the job
- How to invest in your culture and have it be your highest ROI
- Simple ways to infuse culture into your organization
About William Vanderbloemen
William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, pastor, speaker, author, and CEO/Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group (VSG), an executive search firm that helps organizations find their key staff. VSG has been named four and three times to the top of Entrepreneur.com’s Top Company Cultures list of small businesses and Houston Business Journal Best Place To Work list, respectively. VSG recently was named to Houstonia’s 2017 Best Places to Work list and Forbes’ 2017 list of America’s Top Executive Recruiting Firms. Prior to his work in executive search, William led growth and innovation in several churches, including Houston’s oldest congregation, the First Presbyterian Church of Houston. William is a regular contributor to Forbes and Fortune. His latest book, Culture Wins: The Roadmap to an Irresistible Workplace, is due out this spring. William holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
