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Engaging for purpose

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:00:40 +0000

An organization’s purpose goes beyond the tangible results it seeks to generate. Achieving corporate goals and objectives is like passing landmarks and milestones along the way to fulfilling purpose.

Ironically and perhaps hopefully, a corporate purpose may never be fulfilled completely. Purpose is a company’s reason for existing. Companies that have stood as repeatedly successful and admirable institutions have purposes that state what they intend to give [...]

Engaging your vision

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:43:50 +0000

Engagement is essential to effectively constructing a true compelling vision.

So what?!

A true compelling vision is instrumental to the success of a business. Virtually any successful company you know has created and maintained a vision that is dynamic, exciting, and been put to action by the entire workforce.

If that’s true (and it is) then engagement is instrumental to the vision…and to business success. Here are the three key ways engagement [...]

Performance intensity: sparked by engagement!

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:29:13 +0000

Christopher Rice, President/CEO of BlessingWhite, kicks off their Employee Engagement Report, 2011, with this statement: “Employee engagement, as a metric of business success, is getting more attention than ever before.”

Performance Intensity, my new venture with Richard Eppel, focuses on the ever-increasing emphasis on employee engagement. Richard and I are [...]

Engagement and Performance: Intensity Plus!

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:37:37 +0000

Employee engagement drives business performance. Successful businesses are intent on improving their business performance. We might say that a continuous goal is performance intensity.

Here’s a simple truth: the number of employees in your company who are fully engaged in their work drives your business performance. Here’s another simple truth: the quality of their individual engagement in their jobs, their team [...]

Seeing is achieving

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:12:49 +0000

This week we’re looking at a company’s need for an envisioned future. Certainly that means “vision”. However, it means much, much more than the 8-word vision statement on your ID card and on a plaque in the board room.

The vision that moves companies continually to success, that distinguishes them from competition, that gains lasting respect and value from their customers and clients has two [...]

Are there BHAGs in your future?

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:08:37 +0000

Yesterday we took a look at how an envisioned future is critical to continuous business success. Today let’s look at the first step to making that vision something that will stimulate employees to action and move the company ever-forward.

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras refer to the BHAG, as in the Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. [...]

Does your biz have an envisioned future?

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:16:04 +0000

Vision moves employees.

All the talk in the world about employee engagement, performance improvement, talent excellence is just a hill of beans if the company is visionless.

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras made the case that was built to last. They said that a successful business needs an “envisioned future.” Employees want to [...]

Reactive conversations: what not to have, how not to be

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:41:30 +0000

Yesterday I offered some collaborative conversation tips and suggestions, thanks to Richard Eppel (StrategicMomentum).

Those speaking and listening tips can help your team create (and enjoy) collaborative conversations. Those are the open and authentic exchanges between individuals. They are the conversations that generate sincere personal interaction, high-energy and high-performance among co-workers, among team members.

Collaborative conversations are the opposite of reactive conversations. Those are the ones you want to avoid, the conversations [...]

Collaborative conversation: what it takes

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:39:28 +0000

Collaborative conversations do not have to follow a standard format, a set script, or rigid dialogue.

They simply require that all parties have complete and equal opportunity to share, to be listened to, and to clarify and verify what they hear the other person say.

There are a number of processes available for building collaborative conversation as the normal communication behavior. Several resources are listed below.

Here [...]

Attention to freedom

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:23:10 +0000

Rosa Parks made her stand 55 years ago. Today.

Ms Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, AL, city bus. As a result of Ms Parks demonstration that she was free to hold her seat, she

Was arrested and convicted of disorderly conduct, Inspired a 381 day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, Gave rise to Rev. Martin Luther King’s emergence as a civil rights leader, Sparked [...]