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Employee? 5 questions about your own engagement.

March 9th, 2010

This week’s postings — today, Wednesday and Thursday — turn the table. Each of the next three days, I’ll list 5 specific ways you can look at, like or dislike, decide to upgrade (or not) your own employee engagement.

Starting with 5 questions. Why not set aside some time, perhaps 30 minutes each of the next 5 days. Then ask and answer one of these questions each day. Consider how [...]

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Giving the manager more to do?

March 4th, 2010

I know, managers already have more than plenty to do! But it’s a sure bet that these 3 management actions boost engagement by employees. And it’s a fact that engaged employees need less management hand-holding. So, consider

Planning communication. The more often and the more ways a manager talks to an employee, the more opportunities the employees has to feel meaningful, valuable, and appreciated. That means more reasons the [...]

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Developing employee engagement: management’s role

March 3rd, 2010

Douglas McGregorEvidence gives responsibility for employee engagement to managers and their management style. But is that responsibility to direct employees to engage or to  develop their engagement (and engagement culture)?

Douglas McGregor, in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), said: “The effectiveness of organizations could be at least doubled if managers could discover how to tap into the unrealized potential present in their workforces.”

McGregor [...]

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