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What gets between leaders and employees?

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:32:13 +0000

Management, as we traditionally think of it, says Dan Pink, author of such works on work as A Whole New Mind, is a great way to get compliance. But it’s proved to be a terrible way to get engagement.

If leaders should be expected to define the culture that generates employee engagement, managers are responsible for taking that culture to the employees.

And if what Pink [...]

What’s ‘leadershift’?

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:46:16 +0000

Consider these sobering facts: At least two-thirds of organizational change initiatives fail; 90 percent of strategies are not carried out successfully; 95 percent of employees are unaware of or do not understand their organization’s strategy. For all our management expertise, planning, and strategizing, we’re too often unable to successfully implement strategic change. Wm. Pasmore

It doesn’t matter who’s to blame. What matters is what [...]

How your engagement generates theirs

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:32 +0000

How much and how well a leader (manager) illustrates her own engagement to the employees determines how much and how well they will engage in return.

For tips to increase your engagement, check this.

Here’s an important point: the ways you engage may be clear to you, but that doesn’t mean others readily perceive them. A little publicizing can go a long way.

I suggest [...]

Opportunity rocks! Rocks employee engagement, that is.

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:02:30 +0000

A manager recently said to me, “My people have the opportunity to hold a job. The kind of opportunity you’re talking about seems like parties, celebrations, stuff that takes time and attention away from the real work.”

I apologized for being unclear. The O (for Opportunity) in my C.O.R.E. of Engagement provides a direct link to increased and improved employee engagement. It’s more effective to give [...]

3 ways to keep everyone talking about employee engagement

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:22:40 +0000

When active talk about a hot topic begins to ebb, the action that topic warrants ebbs too.

IOW, one sure way to keep engagement on your team’s action list is to keep it on your team’s short list of conversation topics.

Here are e easy to implement tips to keep Employee Engagement on your people’s lips:

1. Set immediate engagement goals. If you challenge your team to find, practice, or observe engagement [...]

What’s your own engagement score?

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:29:13 +0000

One of the Top 10 Tips to Keep Yourself Engaged was that you select a scoring scale and rate your own engagement–in your work, your department, your company–every week.

I want to make that as easy for you as possible because it will make your own engagement improve. And that will improve the engagement among your employees.

This series of suggestions is available for Two weeks ago, in the Top 10 Tips to Keep Yourself Engaged post, I suggested keeping a notebook handy all the time.

My preference is traditional, pen-and-paper notebooking. But quite a few friends and associates have commented that’s old school.

Yeah, I guess so. And to prove I’m not stuck “back there” I’ll update my recommendation to this:

Make a Note of Your Engagement Ideas. Use a [...]

Your own engagement: a personal goal

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:30:34 +0000

A manager can talk all day about employee engagement. If that’s the only real engagement that manager demonstrates, it won’t go far with employees.

It’s well-known that employees often look to and then imitate their immediate manager’s behavior. Plain and simple: if your goal is to increase your people’s engagement, increase your own.

And make it visible.

This tip appeared in In the posting Resource tips for your employee engagement, tip #6 was labeled “books.”

I should have called it library More than the books and materials (not only books) themselves, is that you create a place that sanctifies materials for your employees.

Sure, those materials are for your employees to find information, tools, and reasons to engage more fully in their work for your business. But [...]

Fair trade show opportunity

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:25:20 +0000

One of the tips offered in the Opportunities to Engage tips list is the Engagement Trade Show. Here are some simple steps to make that happen for your people.

Keep in mind that the purpose of the trade show is to explain and encourage various types of engagement to your employees. Invite ideas and suggestions about topics, presenters, and format from you employees. Schedule for a [...]