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And so, a culture of engagement exam?

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:56:55 +0000

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 [...]

Some claps for NetApp!

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:25:51 +0000

I can’t resist — no, I don’t want to resist — sharing publicity space with NetApp, a networked storage and management software company. In 2010, NetApp has made Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the 8th consecutive year.

I’ll let NetApp tell their story…(OK, I will add some color that points to employee engagement [...]

Manager engagement: what matters?

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:04:51 +0000

Here is your 3rd of 3 postings about the engagement roles of Managers, Leaders and Executives.

Once again, I grant you the 3 roles significantly overlap. For example,

One individual may each of the three three responsibilities, at different times and for different reasons. Not only title and description of job determine which category one fits; interpersonal influence factors in as well. One may [...]

Who’s this meeting for, anyway?

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:26:47 +0000

This week’s first posting explored why you need special meetings to define or refine your business culture around employee engagement. The second posting looked at how to make specific preparations for those meetings.

Today’s posting distinguishes three audiences for your meetings. We’ll look at reasons to keep them separate. We’ll offer suggestions for when you have to bring them all [...]

Cultivating business culture: it’s up to the execs

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:31 +0000

It’s better to build the value of employee engagement into the business culture than to toss training programs at the employees.

Building a culture of engagement involves the top three levels of an organization: executives (labeled authority), leaders (personal influence), and management (employee direction/development). Today we look at the executive responsibility. Tomorrow, the leader’s. Thursday, the manager’s.

Business [...]

Empathetic engagement or engaging empathy?

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:34:55 +0000

Admittedly, the prime source of this posting is a posting by Dev Patnaik among Fast Company’s Expert Designers blogs. Patnaik is CEO of Jump Associates, a somewhat see-it-differently strategy firm. But, hey, they’re in San Francisco!

More importantly, for this post, Dev Patnaik’s “2009 book Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, makes [...]

Employee engagement and intuition? I knew that!

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:26:53 +0000

What does employee engagement have to do with intuition? Simply this, trusting your intuition to put focus and energy on your employees’ engagement is likely worthwhile. But let’s get there one step at a time.

What is intuition? In a business context, intuition is the power to select from opposing alternatives (yes/no) based on one’s experience and subconscious, without intellectual or analytical investigation. Some business leaders trust [...]

Health, productivity and engagement, yes? Yes!

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:54:12 +0000

Wonder why I’m wrapping a business’s Health and Productivity efforts around my fave topic, Employee Engagement?

They’re meaningful to one another. As your business and your employees are meaningful to one another.

Gary Billotti, leader for health and human performance with Dow Chemical, states

The Dow Health Strategy is an investment. We truly focus on efforts that will improve health outcomes, realizing fully that these [...]

Final four tips to build your business’s Culture to Engage

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:20:00 +0000

The "Final Four" of a year's worth of tips to define and refine your business culture to feature and foster employee engagement. It's your culture to engage.

Three more tips to build your engaging business culture

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:00 +0000

Continuing our focus on culture to engage--a business culture that builds and maintains employee engagement--here are the next three tips: