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1. Plan Ahead
It’s not uncommon for those of us who manage from the middle to find that the planning, execution, and pace of communication around organizational change is outside the scope of our control. But we can still plan ahead. We can focus our planning efforts on the people we support--think about what the change means on an individual level, how you want each person to feel about the change, their differences in work and communication styles, and prepare to pull each employee into… Continue

I don’t claim to be an expert on Employee Engagement, but I couldn’t resist using David Zinger’s invitation for submissions of an alphabet with the keys to engagement as an opportunity to capture what I have learned so far. These “keys” are a combination of things I have discovered through my own experiences, what I have learned from different management and leadership books, (just finished:… Continue

I recently posted a review of Jason Cohen’s Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review. What does this have to do with Employee Engagement? Read on…

The prospect of my team tripling in size in a four month timeframe got me thinking about how to maximize the benefit of the code reviews we were conducting…Time was not on my side of course (is it ever?), and reading the book kept falling behind other priorities—we were already doing code reviews, after all, so I could sleep at night knowing o… Continue