There is currently a lot of enthusiasm for the concept of employee engagement. This is because of substantial amounts of credible research showing a strong positive correlation between higher engagement levels and better business results. Things like “research” and “business results” sound like solid, respectable things to deal with. But here’s the dirty little secret […]
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William M. Dann, Author, Creating High Performers I recently attended a speech by best-selling author Daniel Pink [1] in which he summarized research on shifts in employee motivators. The old “if-then motivators” of giving bonuses for the achievement of goals no longer work. Work has become too complex and is changing too rapidly for such simple
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If you want a good demonstration in how not to lead served up in a convenient, 43-minute package, just watch an episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen.
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To observe that Jim Kouzes has some insightful things to say about leadership is a bit like pointing out that the sun could teach us a thing or two about illumination. In his foreword to a new book on employee engagement, Jim packs a great deal of such insight into remarkably few words when he
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Very broadly stated, business leaders have two categories of responsibilities to attend to: 1) the tangible, measurable-to-n-significant-digits hard stuff; and 2) the intangible, perhaps-measurable-but-only-by-proxy-at-best soft stuff. Most leaders are more comfortable working in category #1 since they also generally have a bias toward logical, rational, data-driven approaches to the issues at hand. I raise these
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Richard Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations The pursuit of joy in my company started as a personally selfish but noble journey. First and foremost, I wished to create the place I wanted to work. In my early career, as I rose through the ranks in a successful public corporation, I found myself in a trough of disillusionment.
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In any business that is interested in growing, expanding and or just staying ahead of the competition the leadership needs employees to be engaged to help drive their business objectives. Not new news! But let’s take a deeper look at engagement and understand the underpinnings. First off, there has to be an environment of “trust”
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During the economic downturn of the late 2000’s companies everywhere struggled to survive. Many companies were forced to make decisions that directly affected their employees both in the short term and the long term. Companies reduced staff; cut wages; re-level employees; reduced benefits; reduced or even eliminated pension plans and post retirement health care; eliminated
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