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Are you willing/able to assist with Employee Engagement Research?

Hi I am conducting a study as part of a PhD at City University in London looking at the links between leaders' beliefs and behaviours, and how these impact employee engagement and team climate. The research involves managers and 3-5 direct reports each completing a 10-15 minute on-line survey. Are you a manager with a team that could participate, or working within an organisation that recognises the importance of understanding what/how employee engagement can be influenced, invests in leaders… Continue

Added by Victoria Ellam-Dyson on November 25, 2009 at 7:50am — No Comments

Four Intrinsic Rewards that Drive Employee Engagement

Wanted to share this Ivey Business Journal article with network members. http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_id=867 Here is introduction from the website to the author and the content of the article. Kenneth W. Thomas is an emeritus professor, researcher, and developer of training materials. He is co-author of the best-selling Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and the author of In… Continue

Added by Marty Jordan on November 24, 2009 at 4:57pm — 1 Comment

100+ Years of Employee Engagement

In the last few months, employee engagement has been derided by some as nothing more than the latest industry buzzword or HR bandwagon that everyone is rushing to jump on as the as the as the savior of employee loyalty and productivity from the recession. What these pundits miss is two truisms about employee engagement summarized well in this Personnel Today ar… Continue

Added by Derek Irvine on November 24, 2009 at 3:46pm — No Comments

How to Influence Others to Reach Their Full Potential

Being an influential leader means that you have the ability to enable others to reach their greatest peak of influence as well. For many leaders this idea produces mixed results. New leaders do not want to give over control to staff members, insecure leaders fear that a team member may exceed them in knowledge and abilities and authoritative leaders take on the burden of every decision and action until they are exhausted. Influential leaders realize that leadership is not a position, it is an ea… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on November 21, 2009 at 10:18am — No Comments

How to Influence Others to Reach Their Full Potential

Added by Debora McLaughlin on November 21, 2009 at 10:18am — No Comments

Building on the MacLeod report

Nothing like a 150 page report to engage people, so we tried to make it a bit easier to engage with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoUm9xFpWGU Let me know what you think. Jason Continue

Added by Jason Paul Pitfield on November 20, 2009 at 6:13am — No Comments

Engaging Gen Y in the Workplace!

Yesterday I facilitated a call for over 30 colleagues, the topic was Gen Y in the work place. Despite the fact that Gen Y is one of the fastest growing generations in the workforce, many organizations are still struggling with how to recruit, engage, and retain Gen Y employees. Many interesting learning's came from the cross generational discussions on this call, and I'm happy to share with anyone who has interest offline. A key learning for me, as a Gen Yer myself, was the importance of communi… Continue

Added by Scott H. Span, MSOD on November 19, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Engaging Gen Y in the Workplace!

Added by Scott H. Span, MSOD on November 19, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

In the 21st Century every company is a brand. Every brand has a tribe that follows it. The question is whether your brand tribe is with you or against you?

New Brand Tribalism™ is an organisational and management model designed and owned by NBT Ltd. It is designed to help leaders intervene and shape the belief structures linking the key business, cultural and people drivers with the sole purpose of creating unified brand tribes, both inside and outside the organisation. It is the first of its kind. Founders are David Scott, Tim Bleszsynki, and Ebenezer Banful together with support from members of their agencies Rambutan(… Continue

Added by Eb on November 18, 2009 at 12:52pm — No Comments

Secrets of Sustainable Change

Change is inevitable and necessary for survival and progression. It happens and we can’t avoid it, but if we embrace it and look for the opportunities that also come with change, we can take advantage of all thats within. It is no different at work but change often fails simply because people are not put… Continue

Added by Susanne Jacobs on November 18, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

The Inconvenience of Change - Gen Y's take on it!

Whether it's large giant corporations or small businesses, at home, at work, all over the globe - change is everywhere. Six months ago I took part in a fantastic blogging project to create dialogue around "The Inconvenience of Change" - the result of this awesome effort has culminated in an E-book compilation from 38 talented Gen Y bloggers and writers. Get your FREE copy here and share your thoughts (http://www.life… Continue

Added by Shereen Qutob-Cabral on November 18, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Techniques for Improving Organizational Resilience

Resilience is a crucial characteristic in this unpredictable world. Trees survive terrible storms if they can bend in the wind. Species who cannot adapt to new conditions die out. The natural world’s proclivity toward flexibility is also rewarded in humans. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Eventually, resilient individuals can achieve success, sometimes after hundreds of attempts at their dream. At its core, resilience is the spark of det… Continue

Added by People Metrics on November 17, 2009 at 2:29pm — 2 Comments

Customer Satisfaction Bonus Traps

Why do sales and service representatives feel compelled to tell customers how to answer a survey? Does the company want to know what the customers really think, or is the company trying to build positive publicity by claiming superior ratings?

The answer to the second question exposes the company's cultu… Continue

Added by Lynn Hunsaker on November 17, 2009 at 9:28am — 2 Comments

Rock and Roll Engagement

Joe Strummer is my musical hero. He fronted The Clash, who were, in my opinion, the greatest rock band to walk this earth. Joe Strummer was cool because he understood the power of people, he encouraged access to The Clash in a way that freaked the music execs. Him and Mick Jones wrote some powerful, great songs. Strummer also said some powerful, great things. Here is a link to a short piece called… Continue

Added by Doug Shaw on November 16, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Master Change, Master Engagement

What are the key factors for employee engagement? I and others have written at length on this topic. I believe one key factor for employee engagement is creating an environment in which employees want to engage through strategic appreciation of employee efforts. But there are many factors that feed a truly engaging environment. Recent research… Continue

Added by Derek Irvine on November 16, 2009 at 1:15pm — 1 Comment

No bystanders allowed

If you’re not ready to roll up your sleeves, get involved, and challenge assumptions, then you should skip the upcoming Melcrum Employee Engagement conference, held in Atlanta, February 23-25, 2010. From a kick-off that demands your total attention to our ever-popular roundtables to interactive sessions, the program doesn’t just talk about engagement, it lives it. Let’s take a closer look: Involvement We’ve cu… Continue

Added by Alex Hentschel on November 11, 2009 at 11:08am — No Comments

What do you believe about employee engagement?

On November 10 I articulated and posted my 15 beliefs about employee engagement on my own website. I wonder what you believe? I encourage you to read the 15 beliefs and then write some of your own. This I believe by David Zinger: Live. Employee engagement is an experience to be lived not a problem to be solved. One for all, all for one. Employee engagement is everybody’s business – we are each responsible for our own engagement and each accountable to everyone else for th… Continue

Added by David Zinger on November 10, 2009 at 8:35am — 1 Comment

Connection between abscence from work and enagement

Monday 'most common for sickness' More than a third of all sick leave is taken on a Monday, research suggests. The study, by consultant firm Mercer, also found that the highest rate of absence by far occurs in January.The most common reason for absence was musculo-skeletal problems, followed by viral infections and stress-related illness. The findings are based on an analysis of sickness management records for 11,000 employees from a range of private sector organisations. They showed th… Continue

Added by Christopher Selby on November 9, 2009 at 4:39am — No Comments

volunteers in the workplace

Hi there!! I am doing a research project for my company, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, about the use of volunteers in the workplace. Currently ICBC works with volunteers from local community police offices on road safety issues like speed watch, infant child seats, seniors and driving and pedestrian safety. We also work with volunteers in autocrime prevention- both finding stolen autos with info from the CPIC database and leaving crime prevention audits on vehicle windshields t… Continue

Added by Karon Trenaman on November 7, 2009 at 8:40pm — No Comments

Building Accountability for Employee Engagement

Cross-posted from http://abhishekmittal.com Many a times, I find that HR folks rush too fast to make employee engagement metrics a part of KPIs or balanced scorecards. The idea is that there should be a “carrot” to ensure that managers take accountability for their people, otherwise they won’t spend time on open dialogue with their teams and co-create action plans for improvement in engagement levels. I was recently asked if the carrot and stick ap… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on November 6, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

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Thanks! It took me a while before I got to that name for the network. True and good point. Participation is key for the network to be useful. Presently, I work with Skills for Change, a non-profit that aims to help newcomers to Canada establish ...

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Winston tikaram replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Having a shared and compelling vision, continuously reinforced by communication, transparency, involvement and leading by example.

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One secret for managers and supervisors to successfully engage employees is to strive to be interested, not interesting. Judy Nelson, JD, MSW Certified Professional Coach www.CoachJudyNelson.com

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Employee engagement - You Tubed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw From the email where this was sent to me: Our daughter-in-law, Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for b...

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Tom Rausch replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Engagement is about capturing the hearts and minds of your team, open your heart and show you believe in them and truly care about them as people and they will move mountains.

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Stephen J. Gill replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Set performance goals collaboratively with employee and then hold yourself and employee accountable for achieving those goals.

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Danny Michau replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

It is very easy to forget your own journey,share your failings as you grew,treat your team member as a mate inspire him.

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Jon Hoel replied to Jon Hoel's discussion 'Engaging the distributed workplace using Ning' in the group Social media in the workplace

Hi Ravi I like the name 'Stomping Ground' Good that your presentation went well, and thanks for sharing your slides. The assertions you've made in your PPT slides are not wrong but the issue is that achieving all of those things depends on parti...

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Rev. James Rosselli replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Think: if your boss approached you the way you're about to approach your employee, what would your interior response be?

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Rahi Delvi replied to Jon Hoel's discussion 'Engaging the distributed workplace usign Ning' in the group Social media in the workplace

The presentation went off really well. The demonstration of the network went really well too. So far 25% of the staff have signed up. Regrettably, there is virtually no activity on the network yet. I feel that there is a lot of hesitation in start...

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Susanne Jacobs replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Understand every member of your teams motivation, align their aspirations to a clearly communicated business direction, give them all the tools to do the job and then empower them to deliver.

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Lisa Sansom replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Care for people around you and get to know who they are, what strengths they bring and what's important to them.

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Anna Buxton replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Every day do a quick maintenance check. Do people know Why?, How?, When? and What? they are doing and are they free to ask these questions of you?.

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Anna Buxton replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Check your own engagement regularly. You need support, recognition and inspiration as much as your employees, in order provide an environment that will engage your people fully.

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Anna Buxton replied to David Zinger's discussion 'Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors'

Engagement is a relationship that requires regular maintenance.

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