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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Do you manage to success? You can!

March 1st, 2010

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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Where employee engagement is not taken weakly…

January 8th, 2009

Talking to someone (as I always am) at church a few weeks ago, I got around to asking what turned him on about the company he works for. He didn't use the words, but his answer translated as "Engagement. Everyone's engaged in what we do."

My friend works for David Weekley Homes and when I accessed their website, here's what I read:

The first thing a David Weekley Team Member learns is that this isn’t really about building homes. [...]

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