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Here's a timely issue worth brainstorming:
We're living in an era when clients desperately need help, but truly don't have the money to retain employee engagement or culture-building experts.

Firms in our space need to get creative: How can we partner with clients to get them what they need, and get us paid in some way?
Here are some examples of methods I've heard consultants in our space using:
* Delayed payment
* Barter
* Equity
* Smaller, longer-term retainer

I'd love your tho… Continue

Can companies really afford not to use every possible business resource to its full potential to help them survive and thrive? Well, I know of one resource that most companies significantly underleverage: their Employee Resource Groups.

ERGs (also called affinity or business resource groups) have long been sources of community for women, people of color, LGBT, differently-abled and other minority groups in companies. These groups have been great drivers of engagement for these employees; I've e… Continue

This is a recent post from my blog, workforceengagement.blogspot.com. Hope you all enjoy! (Next post will be on leveraging diversity and inclusion to support engagement.)

Snap out of it, leaders!

With layoffs rampant, surviving jobholders rightly feel lucky to be holding on to their paychecks. But, as leaders, should we really be hanging our hats on employee fear and sense of relief?

As organizations and their people jump down the… Continue