I'm the Director of marketing and sales for Humantech, a workplace improvement consultant that partners with global companies. We take an industrial engineering and ergonomic approach to ensuring that the intersection between people, their work, and their work environment is one that promotes safety, quality, and productivity. Employee engagement is central to successful projects.
What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
Keith, I gotta tell ya: the marketing guy in me is grooving on "the 30inchview" title. Nice going.
Now: as I sit here emailing from the laptop in my Buckeye slippers, flanked by a wife and daughter in Buckeye T-shirts, I must quickly close the screen. As soon as someone spots the "Ann Arbor", things will get ugly:-)
Keith,
Welcome to the employee engagement network. I encourage you to put an image for yourself on the site. The new default just moved from a shadow figure to and EE badge. I appreciated your site. I saw the video before as a gorilla, refreshing to see a moonwalking bear. Good point about how much we don't see in employee engagement.
David
Effective Employee Engagement is about developing your staff to care about the future of your organisation. Only you as their manager can demonstrate the readiness of your organisation to deliver it.
Many organizations have seen their voluntary turnover numbers greatly decline during the past 18months (our recessionary window). However, there are two great articles that are indicating that the turnover wave is coming. Those organizations with di…
Recognize that employee engagement is not a fluffy extra but the fundamental way you will get work done with others through conversation, co-creation, community, mutuality, and other inclusive approaches to achieve results that matter to organizatio…
Ah, the script for a boss! That is easy, but a long way from the traditional one.
First, I suggest the boss do a quick read of Douglas McGregor's "The Human Side of Enterprise" to gain an understanding of the theory behind X and Y. Then commit the…
Jon...
Great stuff. Particularly like the piece about attacking "internal friction".
I still think the macro issues, namely around what kind of relationships does the organisation wish to have with specific groups/classes of employees need to be c…
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Ray Seghers Brainstorming new Blog ideas for 2010.
My view on this is that where you treat employee engagement like a ‘big bang’ corporate change programme it will always carry a significant risk of turning into an ‘organisational Vietnam’. Don’t go to war in the first place!
Do it by taking lots a…
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Now: as I sit here emailing from the laptop in my Buckeye slippers, flanked by a wife and daughter in Buckeye T-shirts, I must quickly close the screen. As soon as someone spots the "Ann Arbor", things will get ugly:-)
Welcome to the employee engagement network. I encourage you to put an image for yourself on the site. The new default just moved from a shadow figure to and EE badge. I appreciated your site. I saw the video before as a gorilla, refreshing to see a moonwalking bear. Good point about how much we don't see in employee engagement.
David