Reviews for A Guide to the Basic Course for ESL Students

The average rating for A Guide to the Basic Course for ESL Students based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-07 00:00:00 Derek Cheung "When leaders lighten up and create a fun workplace, there's a significant increase in the level of employee trust, creativity and communication. Leading to lower turnover, higher morale, and a stronger bottom line." (Adrian Gostick & Scott Christopher, The Levity Effect) This book was about how to add levity to our workplaces. So what is "levity"? The authors define levity as, "lightness" to "lighten up." They say, "Leading with levity is about developing a lightness of manner. Levity is equated with having a sense of humour." The authors give some practical advice on how to add humour and fun to the workplace. In fact, in the last chapters of the book, they give you some practical ways of adding fun to your work. Some I wrote down were: ● Have a "fun" line item in the budget; ● Have a joke of the day; ● Build a "Wall of Fame": Notes from clients, news clippings of employees' successes ● Have a "Happy Employee Award" ● Buy books for your team and have a book club ● Take employees out go-carting ● Create a fun committee and rotate membership ● Have a humour bulletin board: post jokes, humourous quotes, or pictures ● Bring in pizza for lunch ● Have a shoes optional day ● Sing "We Are The Champions" before a meeting... They share primary and secondary research from many credible sources that prove how levity at work increases productivity, lowers turnover, increases employee engagement, builds morale...how you can work hard and have fun at the same time. That it doesn't have to be one or the other. In fact, if you have a little fun, your employees will be happier and more productive, and they probably will stay longer. The authors are not talking about being hillarious, and that all the leaders have to be comedians and play practical jokes on one another. The main premise of this book is lighten up and have fun at work, and it will benefit your workplace greatly, and it may even increase the bottom line.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-08 00:00:00 Murder Rate Very interesting listen this was my first audio book. I found the underlying principal of the book obvious once it had been pointed out. As the head of a small team who work very hard and well together and who are very successful at what we do, I was surprised to discover just how important our humorous approach to almost everything could be. I don't think there is another team in our organisation which works harder, set itself higher targets and continually strives to improve their service in the same way we do. This book has helped me understand just how important the humour in the office is. Rather than possibly worry about how we could appear at times unprofessional by the uninitiated. I am now confident a major part of our success and our close working relationship can be attributed to our liberal use of humour. I would recommend this book to everyone.