Culture of engagement doesn’t just grow on trees.

April 27th, 2010

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 [...]

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Cultivating business culture: it’s up to the execs

April 20th, 2010

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 [...]

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

October 6th, 2009

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

C-level executives are hired to carry out the doubtfulmanbusiness 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 [...]

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