August 31st, 2010
For years I’ve professed the value, the significance, and the critical weight of a business having its culture of engagement.
It’s been years since I’ve expressed concisely the actual meaning of that phrase, a culture of engagement.
It deserves definition because it is more than we think.
It’s more than encouraging employees to engage in their work, their teams, their company.
It’s more than striving to increase that number of engaged employees.
It’s more [...]
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Tags: business culture, Creativity, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management
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August 24th, 2010
When the economy really turns around and recovery begins, holding onto talent will be on every manager’s priority list.
At least, it should be.
A sure sign of confidence in the economy is hiring additional employees. Increased opportunities for better work, different work, and simply other work will appeal, especially to a business’s true talent.
Employees choose to leave not just because of greater pay or better benefits. [...]
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August 18th, 2010
A friend recently told me of being emotionally “beaten up” by their manager.
Normally, I share ways to generate positive engagement. This, however, makes me think it can”t hurt to look at the flip side. It is very easy for a Beat ‘em Up Manager (aka B.U.M.) to disrupt completely an employee’s engagement equation:
investment
+ commitment
+ involvement
Engagement
in his work, [...]
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Tags: Communication, Employee Engagement, Management
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