Communication | Opportunity | Resources | Engagement
This week’s postings — today, Wednesday and Thursday — turn the table. Each of the next three days, I’ll list 5 specific ways you can look at, like or dislike, decide to upgrade (or not) your own employee engagement.
Starting with 5 questions. Why not set aside some time, perhaps 30 minutes each of the next 5 days. Then ask and answer one of these questions each day. Consider how [...]
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Evidence gives responsibility for employee engagement to managers and their management style. But is that responsibility to direct employees to engage or to develop their engagement (and engagement culture)?
Douglas McGregor, in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), said: “The effectiveness of organizations could be at least doubled if managers could discover how to tap into the unrealized potential present in their workforces.”
McGregor [...]
Read more »Manager → Management Style → Engagement → Success
The above sequence pretty much says it all. And more often than not business owners look at that sequence on the back of my business card and nod their heads. Sometimes they even say, “That’s what every business needs to remember.”
Then they focus on what they hope will contribute to success but which too often has nothing to do with managers, their style, or employee engagement.
Here’s the case made simple:
Success comes from employee [...]
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