April 6th, 2010
I often help clients build an employee engagement plan or strategy. Almost always, while in the plan’s development phase, I ask them to itemize how the plan might fail.
When they get over the but-we-don’t-want-to-think-about-failing difficulty, the brainstorming activity begins full force. And they always come up with a long list of failure situations and causes.
Once the list is complete, and just as quickly, the client teams come up with [...]
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Tags: business culture, Change, Employee Engagement, Leadership
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July 8th, 2009

Have a passion to lead
Yesterday’s posting was too much fun not to try again.
Couple of weeks ago I read an article from the folks at Development Dimensions International (DDI), in their Workforce Performance Solutions (promotion) publication.
They listed the 6 actions business leaders take that promote an Employee Engagement Culture in their business. Here are the 6
Have a passion to lead
Select for fit
Make the connections
Promote accountability
Develop talent
Recognize the obvious
Let me take a little [...]
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Tags: Change, Employee Engagement, Management
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November 11th, 2008
We know employee engagement contributes positively to many (most?) factors in a business. Ironic, then, that employee engagement suffers when times get tough. Or is it? Today we’ll take a somewhat dreary view of what these tough times mean to employee engagement. But, hey, it always pays to be aware…
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Tags: economic downturn, Employee Engagement, employee morale, Management, motivation
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