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This group is intended for anyone who wants to help Managers do a better job promoting employee engagement. What skills does a Manager need? What tools can a Manager use?
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- Who are you?
- Marilyn Woods is the Manager, Service Desk and Operations with Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI). VCPI is the premier technology total solution provider for the Long-Term Health Care industry.
Marilyn has 30 years of executive and management experience in emergency government, finance and healthcare.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- A commitment to mentoring young professionals
- Where are you located?
- Milwaukee, WI
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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…
You must make the choice to be engaged with your employees every day...for engagement is a decision before it is an action.
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…
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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Welcome to the Manager Tools group.
Terry
I hope all is well in Milwaukee. Welcome to our employee engagement network. I trust you will find value in information and interactions on this network. Let me know if I can be of assistance and I encourage you to jump into the conversations.
David