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- Who are you?
- I enjoy learning more about people's thoughts on employee engagement and new HR trends. I am Greek and have lived outside the country most of my life. I began my career stepping on grapes at a winery and now a consultant. I think I will end my career back at a winery stepping on grapes... Great benefits!
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I have years of experience in HR. I am a consultant and focus primarily on Employee Engagement.
- Where are you located?
- United Arab Emirates
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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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Trust you're still creating delicious mischief in UAE. If you need any support you'll be sure to let me know (I was hosted for a week by Qatar Airlines and the Ritz Carlton in Doha once but am still not too sure about the idea of playing golf at midnight).Have a great weekend. Mr B
Ian
I love your career plans about stepping on grapes at a winery!
I also see that you joined the Manager Tools group here at the EE network. Wonderful! I look forward to your contributions there. Feel free to start a new topic
Terry
I hope your move to focusing solely on employee engagement goes well. I am very pleased you joined our network. I would be interested in your reasons to focus solely in employee engagement.
Welcome to the network.
David