3 funny minutes on employee engagement
Are you a loafer? So you thought employee engagement and employee disengagement were new? Perhaps the terms are new but not the experience.
Let’s get some clarity. I love this fantastic 3 minute video full or word play and laughs by Abbott and Costello on being a loafer. Some of the [...]
A Review of Missing Pieces by Jean-Pierre Brun and Cary Cooper
Engagement for all. Employee engagement is becoming increasingly important in organizations and the workplace. Employee engagement, as I have stated numerous times, must be for the benefit of all. Employees must benefit and organizations and their customers must also benefit.
Thank you Peter Hart. Before I [...]
Great eclectic mix of resources from getting unstuck and twenty-ten to approachability and 3 degrees of influence.
Photo Credit: Rainbow remake on Flickr
Start linking and reading here:
Stop being stuck. Start here. Accepting offers and doing something with them. http://bit.ly/7M9VIc
The ZINGER model of employee engagement. Comprehensive for self, others, and results. [...]
Zinger’s eclectic employee engagement resources:
This selection includes contributions ranging from learning 2.0 and loyalty matters to nine question sif you care enough to forty great resources for a community management strategy.
Top 10 Trends in Learning 2.0. Very informative slideshare by Rodd Lucier. http://bit.ly/1Q5LAu
Peter W. Hart on loyalty matters. http://bit.ly/3svLTM [...]
Here are some fine links on employee engagement ranging from the weakness of one tactic for employee engagement to a decreased focus by managers on inspiration, direction, motivation, and accountability:
Employee engagement beyond the single tactic. Well done Mitch McCrimmon. http://bit.ly/4499wZ
Employee engagement? 11 Pathways to [...]
How do you GET to work?
Photo Credit: Construction Signs on Flickr.
Are you constructive? I appreciate the following quotation that David K. Reynolds used to start his book on Constructive Living from Thomas Merton in INC, July 1992, p.11
If I insist that my work be rewarding, that it mustn’t be tedious or monotonous, I’m in trouble….It’s [...]
In a flap
Can you spare some change
for organizational transformation?
Will our rigid cocoon pyramidal structure
morph into a vibrant butterfly of co-created conversations?
Will we become what we are capable of becoming,
Or get stuck on a stick on inertia,
Overtaxed capacity leaving barely enough energy to change toilet paper rolls?
If you want change
You must determine what will die
Because daring [...]
How Not to Conduct an Employee Engagement Initiative (satire).
Ms Julie Carter, a student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX, asked an excellent question:
One question I have is about how a company would go about implementing an employee engagement program. Are there any specific guidelines or initiatives?
Before I offer the positive suggestions in a [...]