Engagement and Performance: Intensity Plus!

March 31st, 2011

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 [...]

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Are there BHAGs in your future?

February 16th, 2011

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. [...]

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

February 10th, 2011

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 [...]

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