Engaging for purpose

July 6th, 2011

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 [...]

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Collaborative conversation: key to team engagement

February 8th, 2011

Conversations come in two main “flavors” — reactive and collaborative. Reactive conversations undermine communication between individuals or teams, while collaborative conversations enhance it. Reactive conversations build walls, while collaborative conversations build bridges.

(Richard Eppel, Strategic Momentum)

Conversations provides the critical crux of engagement within an organization.Whether we mean “employee

Richard Eppel

engagement” or “team engagement” or “organizational engagement”, successful engagement is essential to [...]

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Focus on results

November 1st, 2010

Every M-F throughout November I will post a brief Employee Engagement Kernel (aka, EEK!).

I hope you’ll comment. I hope you’ll offer suggestions, tips, ideas in response. I hope you’ll join me in looking at Employee Engagement through 22 different lenses!

1/22.

Start the month by asking and answering what do we want to achieve? Ask yourself, your employees, your associates, your boss, your customers. In other words, ask it of as many people who have answers that matter to you.

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