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Create conversations and processes that make visible the choices people make every day about accountability, then highlight the ways those choices contribute to business success.
Hello Lennart:
I would suggest you review the research on employee engagement done by the Gallup organization. They have done milliions of interviews on this topic, and a wonderful book that boils down some of this research is 12: The Elements of G…
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- At 6:59pm on February 4, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Maureen:
Thank you for joining the Employee Engagement Network and welcome to this community. I love the approach of conversations to engagement and I use Crucial Conversations to help people foster more engagement or work with disengagement. You were our first member over 800 to join so thanks for moving us toward 900.
Let me know if I can be of assistance.
David
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- Who are you?
- I am a managing parter with henning-showkeir & associates, inc., and work with my partner and husband, Jamie, who co-founded the business.
We are co-authors of "Authentic Conversations: Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment."
Our work is built on the underpinning that the key to prosperity and accomplishment in today’s demanding global marketplace is best achieved through the intentional distribution of organizational power. We work with our clients to create cultures of collaboration and personal commitment.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- My work and my passion is to work with individuals and organizations to increase employee engagement through distribution of organizational power.
- Website:
- http://www.henning-showkeir.com
- Where are you located?
- Phoenix, AZ
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Do you ever wonder how past leaders could have missed what seems so obvious in hindsight? Sadly, most leaders live in an environment that makes them vulnerable to managerial failure. The problem lies in a little-recognized reality of leadership: iso…
Dear Ray,
Your concern is well founded. Employees look forward to surveys like they do a visit to the dentist! The Horsepower Survey, however, is an employee-focused survey to measure how rewarded employees feel about their work. It consists of sev…
Mike,
I will make mention of this new group in the next newsletter. Thank you for starting this and I wish you well and all European members the best with this focus.
David
Jason:
Good points about trust and aligning the strategic engagement with employee engagement. We need results for all.
I am concerned you will lose readers due to lack of formatting on this post. I encourage you to ensure that you format your pos…
Thanks for sharing this information, Roy.
When I was Research Director at The Loyalty Institute, we found that the #1 driver of employee commitment was an organization's efforts to build a sense of spirit and pride. This was true in the US as well…
As a survey consultant I guess that I should like the idea of conducting monthly surveys, but I am concerned that employees may feel that they are being "over surveyed."
There are options, of course. An organization might randomly assign each emplo…
This is a great read, a great story. I smiled the whole time as I read this. If this conversation is possible in your organization, then I'd say your leadership is trusted and transparent. Thanks for this story.
I won't be wishing you "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" this December. These secular, generic salutations are popular in corporate America because they are not specific to any one religion or belief system. The business world, like America's…
Hello Paul:
"if you want to improve productivity and reduce costs, you need to
tap into human nature’s pleasure-fueled engine."
I could not agree more but if we wait until after we hire someone we have waited too long.
Bob
A Manager shall know one's team member more than his/her mother knows him/her.
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