Now I've heard everything! Seriously, there are many, many books out there on this very subject. Suggest your "company advisor" purchase them instead for his staff. A thorough search on Amazon should provide you with plenty of titles! Good Luck - sounds like you will need it.

Wow, that's a big request. Who's to say you spend all that time writing it, and it doesn't get published? 'been there' is right - you won't have rights to the book if you write it on company time as a project. There are tons of books (and websites ) devoted to this topic - seems silly to write a whole book based off one event. And if you're not a writer - this could be torture for you. I do write, and you need to be in the right moode, frame of mind, etc and even then, sometimes the results are far from exemplary. If the purpose of writing the book was to share your great program, then do something a bit different and start a blog or a website based on that topic. If the purpose is to generate $ for the company, they may need to rethink things.

Is this company advisor your boss? If not, such a request should go through your boss. It is unreasonable to ask an office person to write a book and your boss would probably agree. Besides, by the time anyone writes a book, it is many months down the road. This person would probably forget about it by then.

Jocelyn,

I think it is exciting that you are considering something like this. Who cares if you are an "office girl?" Go for it. There are TONS of books with the kind of getting started insight you are looking for. Go on Amazon and search for "writing nonfiction." Browse through the user ratings and find something that looks appealing to you to start with.

If you are really going to write a whole book on company morale though, you are going to have to read a lot of what's already out there too. Your other option may be to write an article about your game or write up just the game and try to sell it to a company that sells those sort of things. There are many of them too. Use google to find "improving company morale" and you will find products for sale.

Good luck!

WOW ! kudos to your and your advisor. Morale has to be one of the most challenging issues in companies today as they are experiencing so much rightsizing, downsizing and restructuring. This has to be of concern to every employee management or otherwise. Maybe a book (whitepaper) like this has to be writen from two perspectives one addressing managment and one from the "managed's" point of view. Looks like you have a timely and worthy project on your hands.

That said, all good books start with solid research.

Research a topic called "Employee engagment" and of course "employee morale". Blessingwhites website may be of help. www.blessingwhite.com

Also research the topics of "employee on-boarding" and "employee retention". Egret Consulting's whitepaper on the subject might help: www.egretconsulting.com

Research the topic of "employee relations". SHRM and organization of HR professionals may provide some answers when you research "career development and growth". Also lookup "corporate culture". www.shrm.org

I have included urls for these topics in my linkedin post for the Administrative Assistant group discussion. Sorry, I could not include them here.

Happy reading and writing and please please keep me in the loop as to your progress.

Much success and Best wishes,

cp

If you don't like to write, don't want to write a book for someone else, then tell them you aren't the best person for the job. Writing a book is a lot of work and usually incorporates more than one person and a lot of time. Unless you have any new keen ideas or insights, you would just be taking what you find in other articles and books anyways. If anything, offer to write a few articles on the topic and then you will discover if it's something you do have advice about or if it was just a few good ideas that you were able to implement.

I don't think you should feel pressure to actually do this if you dont' think you want to.