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Giving your intuition a premortem

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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6 Contributors to Manager Engagement

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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When Everything’s Looking Down, Look UP Employee Engagement

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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