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How values engage engagement’s values

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:56:14 +0000

This posting’s title should not confuse.

Corporate values generate employee engagement and engagement creates value in the organization.

First, let’s look at proof that a company’s meaningful attention to corporate values contributes to greater success. From a 2004 poll of 365 senior executives conducted with the Aspen Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton reported:

“Top performers consciously connect values and operations. Companies that report [...]

Engaging for purpose

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:00:40 +0000

An organization’s purpose goes beyond the tangible results it seeks to generate. Achieving corporate goals and objectives is like passing landmarks and milestones along the way to fulfilling purpose.

Ironically and perhaps hopefully, a corporate purpose may never be fulfilled completely. Purpose is a company’s reason for existing. Companies that have stood as repeatedly successful and admirable institutions have purposes that state what they intend to give [...]

Engaging your vision

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:43:50 +0000

Engagement is essential to effectively constructing a true compelling vision.

So what?!

A true compelling vision is instrumental to the success of a business. Virtually any successful company you know has created and maintained a vision that is dynamic, exciting, and been put to action by the entire workforce.

If that’s true (and it is) then engagement is instrumental to the vision…and to business success. Here are the three key ways engagement [...]

Performance intensity: sparked by engagement!

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:29:13 +0000

Christopher Rice, President/CEO of BlessingWhite, kicks off their Employee Engagement Report, 2011, with this statement: “Employee engagement, as a metric of business success, is getting more attention than ever before.”

Performance Intensity, my new venture with Richard Eppel, focuses on the ever-increasing emphasis on employee engagement. Richard and I are [...]

Engagement drives performance, w/ intensity!

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:44:51 +0000

Having drawn distinctions between levels of engagement, today we will look at the direct relationship between engagement and performance. First, we’ll see the general truth that engagement drives performance–meaning performance improvement. Then we’ll examine the specific type of performance (improvement) related to each type of engagement.

Blessing & White’s Employee Engagement Report:2011 states simply:

Engaged employees [...]

Engagement and Performance: Intensity Plus!

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:37:37 +0000

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 [...]

Seeing is achieving

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:12:49 +0000

This week we’re looking at a company’s need for an envisioned future. Certainly that means “vision”. However, it means much, much more than the 8-word vision statement on your ID card and on a plaque in the board room.

The vision that moves companies continually to success, that distinguishes them from competition, that gains lasting respect and value from their customers and clients has two [...]

Are there BHAGs in your future?

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:08:37 +0000

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. [...]

Does your biz have an envisioned future?

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:16:04 +0000

Vision moves employees.

All the talk in the world about employee engagement, performance improvement, talent excellence is just a hill of beans if the company is visionless.

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras made the case that was built to last. They said that a successful business needs an “envisioned future.” Employees want to [...]

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

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:41:30 +0000

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 [...]