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Employee engagement is a "contact sport" and managers need to get out from behind their desks and into the workplace to actively interact with their employees.
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Marty,
Thank you so much for posting this. I have not read it in detail but appreciate the depth and breadth and focus on the work.
David
Wanted to share this Ivey Business Journal article with network members.
http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_id=867
Here is introduction from the website to the author and the content of the article.
Kenneth W. Thomas is an…
Employee engagement is a "contact sport" and managers need to get out from behind their desks and into the workplace to actively interact with their employees.
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- Who are you?
- Western Regional Director and Principal Consultant at Human Capital Consulting Partners
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Work with organizations to improve employee engagement through assessment and training activities.
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- http://www.hccpartners.com
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- San Francisco Bay area
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Wanted to share this Ivey Business Journal article with network members.
http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_id=867
Here is introduction from the website to the author and the content of the article.
Kenneth W. Thomas is an emeritus professor, researcher, and developer of training materials. He is co-author of the best-selling Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and the author of In… Continue
http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_id=867
Here is introduction from the website to the author and the content of the article.
Kenneth W. Thomas is an emeritus professor, researcher, and developer of training materials. He is co-author of the best-selling Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and the author of In… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 4:57pm — 1 Comment
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- At 10:36am on November 10, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Marty:
Welcome to the employee engagement network as you join us from HC Partners:
What are 1 or 2 keys things you have learned in the assessment and training for employee engagment?
I trust you will find helpful people and information here. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
David
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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.
Offered by Shweta Mohanty Posted by David Zinger
"If managers cannot commit, then they shouldn’t expect their employees to commit either."
Well said and very true. I much enjoyed your article and share your views.
Bob Carpenter's experiences in turnarounds are the same as mine although I only di…
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