Culture

Who’s this meeting for, anyway?

April 29th, 2010

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 [...]

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Cultivating business culture: it’s up to the execs

April 20th, 2010

It’s better to build the value of employee engagement into the business culture than to tossĀ  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.

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Empathetic engagement or engaging empathy?

April 8th, 2010

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 [...]

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