Craig Althof's Blog (2)

Dear Sir: My name is John Everyman, and I’m one of the hundreds of people who work for you. Like me, many of my co-workers have started working here fairly recently after losing their jobs. You probably haven’t had a chance to get to know many of us or what we did before we came here, but that’s understandable. Since we’ve been working side-by-side, I’ll help you get to know a little about them. Many of my co-workers have had impressive careers and responsible, important positions. Laid-off te… Continue

This is also posted at my blog In Pursuit of Excellence, where I am trying to come to terms personally on this whole engagement issue. The challenge: come up with a working definition for engagement. Not easy, but I’m going to give it a shot based on four attributes I hold as truths. OK, not “universal truths” but my opinion. I feel these truths are pretty indisputable, but if you want to challenge any of them we can have some fun with this. First in… Continue