All Blog Posts Tagged 'people' (6)

As the Leadership Evangelist for TBD Consulting, I’m very excited to announce that our island in Second Life®, Learning Innovation Campus (LIC), is now ready for individuals and organizations interested to join our campus. Never before has leadership been a more important topic and we look forward to collaborating with leaders from around the globe as we continue to build out the campus. The mission of the incubator is to foster and support the activities of like-minded individuals and companie… Continue

1. Right people fit with the company’s core values. Great companies almost build cult like cultures, where those who do not share the institution’s values find themselves surrounded by antibodies and get ejected like a virus. People often ask, “How do we get people to share our core values?”. The answer: you don’t. You hire people who already have a predisposition to your core values and hang on to them. 2. Right people don’t need to be tightly managed. The moment you feel the need to tightly m… Continue

After having worked with multiple organizations across multiple geographies on Employee Engagement programs, there is still an interesting debate I have with clients, colleagues, friends and HR practitioners. The question is “Do we need to focus exclusively on workgroup-level engagement or focus on enterprise-level systems / processes first?” Some feel that workgroup engagement is paramount, … Continue

Don Lowman wrote a couple of interesting posts “The Power of Thank You” and “Expressing Informed Admiration”. I know that there is a general consensus that recognition is a powerful motivator, but I feel it is quite an under-utilized tool in the people-managers’ toolkit. Managers and leaders sometimes have a tendency to get so “busy” in daily… Continue

“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.” Joseph Campbell Whatever philosophical debates that statement might open up, it certainly could be argued that in a modern work context people have lost any sense of the “rapture associated with being alive.” At a time when working conditions are arguably better than at any time in recorded history, empl… Continue

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