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Executive engagement: what? for whom? and why?

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:40:05 +0000

This week’s 3 postings distinguish engagement roles of the three layers that build a Culture of Engagement: Executives, Leaders, and Managers.

Every business has all three types of individual. Depending on business size, the proportions may differ, and certain individuals may fill two or all three roles. Here are some truths:

One individual may wear more than one hat, at different times and for different reasons. (For example, an [...]

Who’s this meeting for, anyway?

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:26:47 +0000

This week’s first posting explored why you need special meetings to define or refine your business culture around employee engagement. The second posting looked at how to make specific preparations for those meetings.

Today’s posting distinguishes three audiences for your meetings. We’ll look at reasons to keep them separate. We’ll offer suggestions for when you have to bring them all [...]

Building an engagement culture? Make the planning meeting hop!

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:35:07 +0000

What does it take to make your culture of engagement planning meeting really hop?

This week’s posts cover the why’s, what’s and how’s of those special meetings that create your business’s engagement culture.

Yesterday we looked at why you want a special meeting. If you missed that post, here’s the link. Tomorrow we will distinguish the three types of meetings for your three types of [...]

Culture of engagement doesn’t just grow on trees.

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:16:39 +0000

A true culture of employee engagement is anything but low-hanging fruit. In fact, you’re not likely to find it growing from any tree. To build a business culture that truly promotes employee engagement, you need a culture of engagement meeting checklist.

Here’s why.

First Reason. Business culture deserves talk and elaboration. You may already know the culture (values, norms, standards) you want your [...]

Cultivating business culture: it’s up to the execs

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:31 +0000

It’s better to build the value of employee engagement into the business culture than to toss training programs at the employees.

Building a culture of engagement involves the top three levels of an organization: executives (labeled authority), leaders (personal influence), and management (employee direction/development). Today we look at the executive responsibility. Tomorrow, the leader’s. Thursday, the manager’s.

Business [...]

Why is defining or refining business culture the executive’s job?

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Simple answer: It’s anÂ unwritten part of the job description.

C-level executives are hired to carry out the business culture. If they start up the company, they define the culture from scratch. If they are hired into an existing company, they refine the culture as necessary.

While not the same thing, culture and strategy have this in common: many set a strategy (the approach [...]

When it comes to engagement, what’s an executive or a leader or a manager?

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:32 +0000

Last week’s posts looked at how leaders can shape and shape up businesses’ culture of engagement.

But there are others involved. My Culture of Engagement focus (and services) look at three levels that contribute critically to successful employee engagement: executives, leaders, and managers.

Quite a fewÂ argue that it’s impossible to draw hard lines separating the executive from the leader, the leader from the manager, and the manager from either.

True, if we recognize that very [...]

Involve to engage

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:58:30 +0000

September 2, 2009

Today I offer 3 more tactics to increase your employees’ engagement in their work, your business, and the ultimate success.

We’ve been looking at the power that comes when key players — executives, leaders, managers — make a stand for engagement in their business culture.

Let’s take that specifically to how managers, leaders, and executives can take a grip on involving

Some knowing to stand on

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:28:05 +0000

September 1, 2009

A little knowing makes it easier to make a stand.Â Demonstrating your company’s firm stand for engaging its employees requires knowing.

It requires the company’s top executives’ knowing the employees. And the leaders’ knowing the employees. And the managers and supervisors knowing the employees.

And not necessarily knowing the same things or in the same ways.

Executives want to exemplify engagement for an entire organization. An executive begins this by knowing others members of the executive team. Every member [...]

Culture to engage: 3 legs to stand on

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:05:11 +0000

August 25, 2009

The August issue of Culture to Engage e-newsletter promised “even more reasons, tips, and strategies to help your business make a stand for the Culture of Engagement.”

Believing your employees will engage is not enough. Offering a once-a-year seminar about engagement is not enough. Just reading e-newsletters and blog postings is not enough. Your influencers (executives, leaders, [...]