Management Improvement

What gets between leaders and employees?

July 27th, 2010

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.

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What’s your own engagement score?

July 15th, 2010

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.

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Your own engagement: a personal goal

July 13th, 2010

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.

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