August 31st, 2010
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 [...]
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Tags: business culture, Creativity, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management
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July 26th, 2010
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 [...]
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Tags: business culture, Leadership
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May 19th, 2010
We call it “employee engagement”. We can think of anyone, everyone who works for a business as an “employee”. Everyone, then, has a part in engagement.
Business leaders have their own kind of engagement. And they contribute in a broader way to the overall engagement throughout the business. How is that?
The leader sets the culture structure.
Employee engagement flows from and actualizes that structure.
By her own behavior, the leader demonstrates [...]
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Tags: business culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership
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