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Journey to a Rainforest Team Culture is a modern, inclusive fable for leaders, illustrating the team culture model created by Jason Kae, and how it fosters employee satisfaction and engagement.
As the new property manager of the failing eight-hundred-unit Mesquite Ridge Apartments, Eliza Hawkins must quickly increase occupancy and meet budgeted revenue goals if she wants to keep her job. What she doesn’t understand until her first day is that she’s stepped into a toxic team culture. Realizing this will be the greatest leadership challenge of her career, she turns to her mentor for guidance and is introduced to the Rainforest Team Culture leadership framework.
In order to achieve the company’s financial targets, Eliza begins the journey of changing her team’s cultural ecosystem by focusing on the two areas in which every manager has the biggest impact: employee satisfaction and engagement.
Through calls-to-action at the end of each chapter, readers are invited to reflect on the complexities of intrapreneurship, balancing human development with profitability, and the potential impact the rainforest team culture leadership framework could have on their own leadership journey.
Praise for
Journey to a Rainforest Team Culture
“Jason brings together years of wisdom into a sensible framework that will benefit any leader. He is a natural storyteller who presents recognizable examples of dysfunction with effective strategy and tools to help a team thrive. This is the book to give new managers and one that they’ll revisit many times throughout their careers. Journey to a Rainforest Team Culture is the book I wish I could have given myself ten years ago!”
—Mark Rushing, Senior Technology Leader
“Sometimes the delivery is just as—and sometimes even more— important than the message. What Jason Kae has authored in Journey to a Rainforest Team Culture is an engaging, relatable, and actionable tale for leaders and managers to prioritize humanity in their organizations. Of course, when people feel taken care of, they take care of your business. Read this book if you wish to feel engaged and you wish to engage others.”
—Stephen Shedletzky, Leadership Speaker & Coach at Shed Inspires,
and Author of Speak Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up
“With practical takeaways and tangible next steps throughout, Journey to a Rainforest Team Culture will help leaders at any level increase team satisfaction & engagement, and improve their workplace culture.”
—Kristen Hadeed, CEO and Author of Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong