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Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence
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- Who are you?
- Stephen (B Eng., Royal Military College of Canada) has developed broad and in depth skills and experience in leadership and management throughout careers in the Canadian Armed Forces, the technology sector and as an entrepreneur. Stephen’s focus on customer effacing roles in sales, marketing and customer service have brought increased profitability to the resolution of mission critical problems. Bottom line results for both internal and external customers have been a singular focus for Stephen in all that he has done: trouble shooting, problem solving, developing and inplementing successful business plans, growing existing business, building new business, or leading and coaching teams to exceed assigned objectives.
Coaching and instructing for top results have been a life long pursuit for Stephen in his professional and personal pursuits. From training soldiers to be leaders, to leading and coaching Product Launch Teams, Quality Improvements Teams or Sales Teams; Stephen brings a complete skill set and extensive experience to successful results. Stephen has also successfully coached and trained horses and riders to compete at national level events across North America.
As to the success that Stephen brings his accomplishments, here are a few quotes:
"It is a pleasure working with someone with your professionalism and attitude. You have a firm grasp of what is going on, what are the hot items, and how to deliver them to us. As Dan put it numerous times you are the glue holding this relationship together."
Joe Welfeld
Software Manager IP Services
Paragon Networks International
“Since joining the marketing group you have initiated a number of activities that have raised the level of expectations the company has for the marketing group. In particular, your efforts during the A2B release have been exceptional."
W.G. Breen
President &CEO
Simware, Inc.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I train and coach leaders and managers at all levels in attaining high performance.
- Where are you located?
- I am located in the GTA (Toronto), Ontario, Canada
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Do you ever wonder how past leaders could have missed what seems so obvious in hindsight? Sadly, most leaders live in an environment that makes them vulnerable to managerial failure. The problem lies in a little-recognized reality of leadership: iso…
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.
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Welcome to the Manager Tools group. Glad to have you join in. Feel free to get something started there. Maybe on training and coaching leaders and managers?
Terry
Glad to see you joined up! Why not come over to the Manager Tools group too?
Terry
Welcome to another person from Canada in the network. I look forward to you reading your perspective given your background. Hopefully not too much of your military time was in literal trenches. Feel free to contribute and to ask for what you need.
David