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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August 18th, 2010
A friend recently told me of being emotionally “beaten up” by their manager.
Normally, I share ways to generate positive engagement. This, however, makes me think it can”t hurt to look at the flip side. It is very easy for a Beat ‘em Up Manager (aka B.U.M.) to disrupt completely an employee’s engagement equation:
investment
+ commitment
+ involvement
Engagement
in his work, [...]
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Tags: Communication, Employee Engagement, Management
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August 17th, 2010
Here’s a victorious circle that involves creativity-at-work and employee engagement.
The more engaged employees are, the more creativity they bring to their work.
And the more creativity employees bring to their work, the more readily they engage in same work.
The more you invite, even invest in, your employees demonstrating how they may apply their creativity to their work, their workplace, the more engagement you will see.
One part of the ROI of [...]
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Tags: Creativity, Employee Engagement, Management
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