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Who's on twitter? Should we all be?
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How does being an employee and Christmas tie together?
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Who's on twitter? Should we all be?
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This is great! I hope we all can pick up some valuable information via each others tweets.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone!
Alan
How does being an employee and Christmas tie together? Check this out....http://bit.ly/629SbB
Hi everyone, I would love to follow more EE people on Twitter, just signed up to follow Dvid Zinger, he has great info to share, I bet we all do. Please consider following me, I will do the same for you. I am @Passionwerx
Merry Christmas! Alan
This new research is shocking! Here is the link to full article http://bit.ly/1Smoke . If employees and their boss feed career related passions and are engaged, research shows there is a 90% chance that they will not leave their current company. Pas…
I'd agree with Bobby. I can't speak for global trends, but the numbers in this post you reference align well with the numbers reported for businesses here in the US.
The good news is that this period is forcing both organizations and their members…
This article applies to organizations globally in my opinion. Many employees will exhibit a facade of engagement because of fear of losing their job and the high unemployment figures. I don't feel that many organizations realize that at the heart of…
Though I can't completely disagree with any of the points others have made, I will say that we are complicating the matter. At days end, organizations cannot/will not thrive without engaged employees and employees cannot/will not be engaged without…
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
- E.M. Forster
http://passionwerx.com
"A company that is doing better financially may naturally have more engaged employees because they don't worry about their future."
True....but one also needs to remember Engagement is more than "future orientation". Moreover, it is a leading indic…
The biggest reason, at least in my mind, is that the concept is abstract and hard to measure. That's in support of David's point about executives not buying the 20% engagement number. Even if the measurement tools are solid, you still have to get pa…
David,
I understand you have been in the field for a long time and have forgotten more than many of will ever know but the statistics don't lie.
Here are a few numbers from the very recent Macleod report:
The Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) re…
Alan:
My first response is strangely enough aligned with the executives...I don't believe the 20% number and I have been involved in this field for a long time now. My negative side thinks this is a number used by consulting companies to get more b…
Great points!
Thank you.
Alan
http://passionwerx.com
Whenever I come across hard-nosed execs, I like to use numbers to make a point.
Execs take notice when you "show them the money". So, it's useful to show them linkages between engagement and business metrics like sales, profitability, attrition, saf…
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- Who are you?
- I am the Director Of Sales Development for Passionwerx. Our mission is to help organizations realize the benefits of having engaged and passionate employees. PassionWerx is in the human assessment and organizational development industry. Look around you. You can probably tell who is passionate, who is just marking time, and who seems to fall at the midpoint between those extremes. But what is it that makes work a destination for some and a drag for others? What is the quality that separates the star performers from the also-rans? Its engagement the degree to which each of us is connected with the work we do and the organization for which we do it. We change organizations one heart at a time.
For more info about Passionwerx check our website or contact me at passionwerx@comcast.net
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Helping organizations raise their level of engagement and passion one heart at a time.
- Website:
- http://passionwerx.com
- Where are you located?
- Minneapolis Minnesota
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French philosopher.
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- At 8:40am on October 23, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Hi Alan,
I noticed it was your birthday tomorrow and want to wish you all the best a day in advance. I trust you will have a wonderful and engaging year. Congratulations.
David
- At 7:59am on August 28, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Alan,
I have been away on vacation for a few weeks so I offer the belated personal welcome to the network. I trust you will find good information and interesting interactions. Let me know how I can assist you.
I appreciate how involved you have already been and see a very significant role for you in this network. I hope you will help us deepen, enrich, and foster our passion for engagement. I loved the quote at your site:
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Harold Whitman
Thank you for contributing some of your online time here. Let me know how I can assist you.
David
- At 1:00pm on August 19, 2009,
Ben Simonton said… - Sanibel is a great place to spend a few weeks. We lived in Naples for about 7 years, right on the beach.
We then moved to Sun City Center to take better care of my 101 year old mother. This is a Del Webb retirement community with 4 golf courses about 20 miles from Tampa, just off I-75.
Hope all is well with you.
Ben
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Interesting question. I'm drawn to less is more, and even that may be too much :) My experience has shown me that the more fearful the organisation is, the more often it seeks to measure as a means to try and stave off the fear. It then often ends u…
I would contend never is too soon.
If you understand what engagement is and how to achieve it, then you know what an engaged employee sounds like and acts like as compared to one who is somewhat engaged or disengaged. Surveys turn people off while…
Look beyond generic engagement tools: focus on personal drivers from employees, group them accordingly and align engagement tools.
The real challenge to engage employees is to gain trust by giving them autonomy to shape their own jobs to their own wishes, interests and strengths but always aligned with an open and transparant organisational vision and strategy.
Before you start engaging an employee, know him and respect him as an individual first and engagement will follow.
Listen! Zip your mouth. Don't interrupt them when they are opening up to you and expressing there feelings. Remember, its about them not you!
Engagement is to be seen not as an activity but that is the only way the society works.
The management equivalent of ‘Air’ is to practice transparency with team members by managers.
Dr. Jose M F, India, Bangalore
The most important priority for leaders is to cultivate, appreciate, and leverage the vast untapped potential of every employee in their organizations.
If you focus on engagement, productivity will follow. If you focus on productivity, you may not get it.
To begin engagement, sit down with each employee for 40-60 minutes, privately, quietly, and confidentially, and get to know them better -- thei…
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