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Who are you?: Professionally, I have been a Training & Organization Development Guy for over 25 years. In a nutshell, I'm a facilitator, blogger, and transitionist.

Currently I am seeking opportunity in the Training field. Three of my natural strengths that I love are Communicating, Facilitating, and Designing.

Recently, I was a Career Transition Consultant with The Ayers Group, helping executives and professionals to galvanize their job searches.

Prior to that, was Portfolio Manager, for Management & Leadership Development, at the American Management Association.

I joined this network because I believe that employee engagement hinges on Managers.

My greatest accomplishment in life is the two sons that my wife Joan and I have raised. I am so proud of who they are becoming.

My greatest desire is to see peace on earth and I feel called to apply my gifts to that goal.

My approach is "One Small Thing" every day. If all of us did one small thing every day, we would change the world.

PS - See that cute curly haired gal in my photo? That's my love Joan, my bride of over 25 years and running. We are standing near the beach in Galway, Ireland.

What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?: I started a new social network on ning called The Heart of Meaningful Work - http://heartofmeaningfulwork.ning.com/

Website:: http://learningvoyager.blogspot.com

Where are you located?: New Jersey

The Heart of Meaningful Work

I recently started a new social network on ning called The Heart of Meaningful Work. I envision it as a cousin to the Employee Engagement Network.

The economic downturn we are still experiencing has caused many people to question and explore the meaning of work in their lives. Is it enough to work to live, to pay the bils, and put the kids through college? Maybe it is, for now. But do we work for another reason? Is there a higher purpose to our work?

How can we discover our calling in life? That's what I'm hoping to share and discuss at The Heart of Meaningful Work. If you find this interesting, you are invited to join. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Highly Engaged Parishes

Are any of you involved with engagement at your place of worship?

I've been asked by my pastor to work with him, his staff and other lay leaders on a parish-wide engagement initiative. To help get everyone's thinking juices flowing, we are all reading a book called Growing An Engaged Church by Albert L. Winseman, published by Gallup Press.

I like Winseman's subtitle: How to stop "Doing Church"… Continue

Posted on September 30, 2009 at 8:52am —

Drucker on Engagement

Dr Bill Cohen, a disciple of the late great Peter Drucker, has a blog entry on his teacher's model of engagement.

There are four key points:

1. Hire & Promote carefully
2. Set high standards that challenge people to high levels of performance
3. Provide information so that each employee "knows and understands how what he does contributes to the work of the entire organization, and… Continue

Posted on September 15, 2009 at 4:14pm —

Whole Organization Strategic Thinking

Imagine engaging your entire organization in strategic thinking conversations?

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/555919/?sc=dwhn

Terry

Posted on September 9, 2009 at 12:19pm —

Dan Pink talks at TED

Dan Pink has some interesting thoughts on Management, Business, Motivation, and Engagement:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

Thanks to Loretta Donovan for pointing me to this TED Talk.

Terry

Posted on September 1, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Funny People - Movie Review

Last night, I went to see the new Adam Sandler movie "Funny People" expecting to be entertained. But I didn't expect a movie about engagement.

If you are a fan of Sandler, as I am, you will not find another Zohan or Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison in this new bittersweet comedy from director Judd ("40 Year Old Virgin") Apatow.

Instead, Sandler plays a Hollywood comedy star who has made millions but has lost his vital spark. He is angry, lonely, and lost in middle-age. Plus he has just been told… Continue

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

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At 9:26am on November 12, 2009, David Zinger said…: Thanks Terry,
I was very pleased with how it came out and how it looks.
David

At 9:27pm on November 8, 2009, Deanne DeMarco said…: Terry
Thanks- It's great to stay connected with you. This looks like a great discussion group.
Deanne

At 11:42am on September 25, 2009, Janine McComb said…: Thanks for the welcome Terrence!
I look forward to taking some time to tour around the discussion group

At 1:07pm on August 10, 2009, Ron McManmon said…: It's a pleasure to come on board... THX

I have been asked a question by Terrence which was essentially, how do you figure this out? I would like to offer one example that impacted me greatly.

A while back I had the pleasure to visit the folks over at Zappos. I spend a good deal of my time with Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin, the two founds, and prior to my visit you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming into a cubicle. NOW I would not work in any other place...

First and foremost to fix employment engagement in any company it starts at the TOP. The owners, managers and leads have to practice what they preach. These are two guys that could be coming to work in a Lear Jet but choose to keep it real. They work side by side with their guys in cubicles that they fix up with anything from stuffed monkeys & coconut trees to scenes out of "Lord of the Rings". They have fun at work vs. the old "divide and conquer attitude my generation has implemented.

Having fun and COMMUNICATION IS KEY: They encourage their guys to use Twitter to stay in touch, interact with each other and this gives them incite as to what are on their employees minds.... Hmmm, this contrary to the "old corporate guard" philosophy. I asked Tony what are the advantages to Social networking on the job his reply was pretty much common sense. He said to me that attrition is a huge dept in any company and when people stop growing and they are not having fun (and one feeds the other) I am going to lose a valuable team member. So, Tony's solution was communication... Twitter is a communication vehicle that would provide a platform for his guys to reach out and find their passion. When they did Tony is now able to effectively help them build a career plan within his company and he employees excellent staff that are skilled in, with a lack of a better term, "On-Boarding" programs. The unique elements that have turned Zappos into a huge success are, in my opinion:

The owners are humble and do not have egos...
They are 100% customer and employee focused...
They encourage communication... growth... and a fun work environment...

At 2:01pm on August 7, 2009, Brad Federman said…: Thank you for the welcoming note. I am excited to participate. Currently I am preparing for my book release on Monday so I will most likely get more invoolved after that.

Best,

Brad

At 12:41pm on August 7, 2009, Shane Koller said…: Thanks, Terrence. I look forward to contributing to and utilizing the resources of this group.

At 3:22am on June 28, 2009, Frode Heimen said…: Hi Terry. Thank you for the invite. I have joined the group. I will spend some time there in a few days. Got family and friends coming over, and I need to enjoy the sunny days of summer. Glad you liked my blog. Have a great day.

At 6:25am on June 9, 2009, Jay Forte said…: Looking forward to your comments on its approach.
Best,
Jay

At 7:50am on June 6, 2009, Jay Forte said…: Hi Terry,
Checking in to see if you were able to get to the book yet. Let me know!

Best,
Jay

At 3:09am on May 14, 2009, Bobby Clark said…: Hi Terry, thanks for the welcome. Hope your job search is progressing well. I checked out your blog site and it was very helpful and interesting. I write poetry as a way to relieve stress. My favorite author is Mary Oliver. Don't know if you've read her works, but "The Journey" is one of my favorites. I found your recent posts on transparency interesting also as I'm in the middle of writing a post this week on transpararency in decisions. I'll check out the podcast you reference. Take care!

Bobby

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