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A case against EE?
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Hi,
I sense the key is to offer choice - that is to request the cynics create their own route to engagement in a self directed means.
Your role would be to offer the rich inspiration and supportive help needed for them to accomplish this.
You m...
Hi,
You might like to see: www.engagingideas.co.uk for tools and exercises designed to inspire higher employee engagement and change. rapidly and cost-effectively.
Right now we, in our client workshops are using and ice breaker based on what is ...
Are you responsible for engagement in your organization? Is it in your job title? Let's form a group where we can share best practices and ask questions as the practitioners of 'corporate' engagement!
Well said. Organisations do need to strive make themselves more "valuable" to their people, the communities they serve, and to society.
For me the question becomes what does "valuable" mean?
Thank you for the thought.
Best,
Rob
www.engagingide...
Hi,
I guess we learn to disengage as much as we do to engage; this is an outcome of our workplace learning. I sense that the drivers that determine the choice we make are concerned mostly with the "what's in it for me?" question. So, what are the...
Yep,
Unfortunately too many managers confuse management with manipulation.
Best,
Rob
www.engagingideas.co.ukl
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- Who are you?
- I run a business called Engaging ideas. It offers tools, inspiration and support on employee engagement and change issues.
Visit www.engagingideas.co.uk
Our core product is a pack of cards that provides practical exercises and ideas designed to help better inspire employee engagement and change in order to deliver higher business performance. It is not a theoretically biased “best practice” guide. It is a practical toolkit - employee engagement and change inspiration “in a box.”
It comprises 54 cards split into three suites - discover, design and deliver - along with a booklet providing contextual information. The face of each card describes a single exercise or idea, and the back of each card provides stimuli designed to inspire fresh thinking and to kick-start action.
The pack can be used with specificity or with scale: to develop peoples’ thinking, to enhance change efforts, as content for workshops and conferences, to bring a brand to life, to help design and deliver a compelling employee engagement strategy and much more.
It works by getting people better engaged on the issue of engagement.
About Rob Fox
For over twenty years, Rob has worked at the intersection of change management, people development and brand strategy, helping global businesses to find better ways to engage with people and markets to deliver enduring results. He has worked at Gemini Consulting as a change strategist, and Wolff Olins as a brand strategist. Most recently he has been Managing Director of MyBrand, a twenty strong brand consultancy.
His clients include several leading telecoms, financial services and management consultancy businesses. He speaks on change management and brand strategy topics at conferences across the globe, and is the author of Engaging ideas, a product and business model designed to inspire higher employee engagement and change.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Author and business founder
- Website:
- http://www.engagingideas.co.uk
- Where are you located?
- London
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 3:27pm on December 2, 2008,
David Marklew said… - Rob, things are fine thank you despite the challenging retail landscape. Hope things are going well for you.
- At 1:54pm on August 5, 2008,
Jo said… - Hi Rob,
Tripping over myself - see you are onto the discussion already. Great. I am pleased with the way it started up so fast. Maybe we have the kernel of a vibrant network in the UK?
Jo
- At 1:46pm on August 5, 2008,
Jo said…
- Hi Rob,
Group Tab and then the + Top Right. Stephen has already started a discussion on the recession as an opportunity!
Cheers
Jo
- At 7:45am on August 5, 2008,
Jo said…
- Hi Rob
Glad to find you on the EE network. I've just set up an UK group to help us network. Would you like to join?
Cheers
Jo
- At 11:00pm on July 25, 2008,
Varadarajan said… - Hi Rob,
Great to hear from you and happy to accept your invitation.
YOu seem to be doing some very relevant and interesting research and thank you for the pointer to the Synthesis which I will look up next week.
In case you have not seen it yet, do look up the discussion thread on ' Engagement I learnt in Kindergarden' started by Robin Johnson..
Cheers
Rajan
- At 10:27am on July 16, 2008,
Terrence Seamon said… - Hi Rob,
Your core product sounds good...and fun!
Terry
- At 12:28am on July 16, 2008,
Vijay Kumar Shrotryia said… - Good to read your views on Happiness. Happiness at work and family has been surveyed and studied a lot in the last 20-25 years in the name of Life Satisfaction (or Subjective Well-being) and Job Satisfaction (related to Engagement as well). However most of these works have been from the developed world. Scandavian countries do much better in the count of happiness as compared to other group of countries. Further New Economic Foundation at London is doing remarkable good job on valuing Well-Being.
There is one exception to the type of nations prioritising on the study of happiness - a tiny nation called 'Bhutan', which is sandwiched between two most populous nations of the world, India and China. This nation has been talking and practicing the development philosophy of Gross National Happiness and it has really done wonders for the proud citizens of the country. Having worked there for 9 years, I have reasons to believe that this testimony can be replicated well by the organizations (I mean both profit making as well as non-profit ones) of people all around the places. Once organizations start focusing on Happiness, I am sure the stakeholders would derive a better sense of belonging and engagement with such organisations...
- At 11:57pm on July 15, 2008,
Vijay Kumar Shrotryia said…
- Thanx for the invite.....Lets get engaged.....
- At 8:14am on July 11, 2008,
Russell Harper said…
- Thanks Rob for your email. Sure, let me know when you have 20 mins free in the next few days and I can set up a call to discuss and show you.
Regards
Russell
- At 3:01pm on July 9, 2008,
David Zinger said… - Hi Rob,
I am glad you joined the network. Sounds like you have a powerful tool for engagement. I would love to see your product and offer a review of it if you are interested. You can contact me at dzinger@shaw.ca if you wish to pursue this. I look forward to you involvement and input into the network.
David
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