Communication | Opportunity | Resources | Engagement
I often help clients build an employee engagement plan or strategy. Almost always, while in the plan’s development phase, I ask them to itemize how the plan might fail.
When they get over the but-we-don’t-want-to-think-about-failing difficulty, the brainstorming activity begins full force. And they always come up with a long list of failure situations and causes.
Once the list is complete, and just as quickly, the client teams come up with [...]
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Have a passion to lead
Yesterday’s posting was too much fun not to try again.
Couple of weeks ago I read an article from the folks at Development Dimensions International (DDI), in their Workforce Performance Solutions (promotion) publication.
They listed the 6 actions business leaders take that promote an Employee Engagement Culture in their business. Here are the 6
Have a passion to lead
Select for fit
Make the connections
Promote accountability
Develop talent
Recognize the obvious
Let me take a little [...]
Read more »I say engagement comes first, stimulates performance and leads to performance improvement. Consequently, if novelty, complexity, and abstractness hinder performance (improvement) — and for sure, they do! — then they are actually hindering the employee’s motivation to be engaged.
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