Education & Development specialist
Background in Employment Equity, Cultural Diversity, work styles consulting.
What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
Oversee Education and Development for my company; through my role assist managers to develop into great team leaders with strongly engaged team members; working in a team distributed around the world, I'm very interested in how to keep our distant team members connected and feeling heard and valued.
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At 6:40pm on November 16, 2009, David Zinger said…
Marion,
I am so pleased you joined us and I so much appreciate when someone else joins our network from Winnipeg, the birthplace of our network. It is hard enough to keep people engaged when they are close and distant it can be a real challenge if they are both distant and distant. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
I would stop talking to employees and start listening to them. Find out what they want and how they want it. Find out how they think would be the best way to get it and help them to get it. They will have concerns, suggestions, complaints, and que...
Jason, Thanks. I agree that feeling in control is big. Also think the mistake with executive communications comes down to " It's not what you say, it's what people hear." The traditional "messaging" often fails on the latter.
Lois
Nothing like a 150 page report to engage people, so we tried to make it a bit easier to engage with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoUm9xFpWGU
Let me know what you think.
Jason
Hi Lois, my last organisation did some work around 'fair process'. They had some wonderful case studies around this sort of issue. They had three key elements which I though summed up nicely what could be done.
Engage with everyone affected by the...
Well said, Susan. It all starts with listening, really listening 100% without the distraction of figuring out a response while the other person is talking.
For some short articles on this process take a look at
http://www.bensimonton.com/articles...
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I am so pleased you joined us and I so much appreciate when someone else joins our network from Winnipeg, the birthplace of our network. It is hard enough to keep people engaged when they are close and distant it can be a real challenge if they are both distant and distant. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
David