I noticed it was your birthday tomorrow and want to wish you all the best a day in advance. I trust you will have a wonderful and engaging year. Congratulations.
I have been away on vacation for a few weeks so I offer the belated personal welcome to the network. I trust you will find good information and interesting interactions. Let me know how I can assist you.
I appreciate how involved you have already been and see a very significant role for you in this network. I hope you will help us deepen, enrich, and foster our passion for engagement. I loved the quote at your site:
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Harold Whitman
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Sanibel is a great place to spend a few weeks. We lived in Naples for about 7 years, right on the beach.
We then moved to Sun City Center to take better care of my 101 year old mother. This is a Del Webb retirement community with 4 golf courses about 20 miles from Tampa, just off I-75.
Jon...
Great stuff. Particularly like the piece about attacking "internal friction".
I still think the macro issues, namely around what kind of relationships does the organisation wish to have with specific groups/classes of employees need to be c…
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Ray Seghers Brainstorming new Blog ideas for 2010.
My view on this is that where you treat employee engagement like a ‘big bang’ corporate change programme it will always carry a significant risk of turning into an ‘organisational Vietnam’. Don’t go to war in the first place!
Do it by taking lots a…
A manager should always remember he/she is "on stage"- and his/her subordinates notice every little trait so always exhibit the behavior you would want them to emulate.
From Jim's Blog: Changing Winds
I love Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits, in which he writes on simple productivity and life issues. His recent book The Power of Less is a compact and practical guide to reclaiming your life from busyness and inefficiency. I…
Hi Ben...
Thanks for the reply!
Question--what have you seen as a "clear, coherent script" that assures success? And do you think such scripts need updating to address the shifts we've seen in organizations and the marketplace?
All the best from…
In my experience, achieving engagement creates huge increases in productivity per person, morale, retention, profits, sales, and every other "devoutly to be wished" result. So it is always worth the effort.
But the company person, CEO or executive…
Do two things: trust your employees unconditionally and give them more responsibility than they would ever expect; they will rise to the occasion and surpass all expectations.
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I noticed it was your birthday tomorrow and want to wish you all the best a day in advance. I trust you will have a wonderful and engaging year. Congratulations.
David
I have been away on vacation for a few weeks so I offer the belated personal welcome to the network. I trust you will find good information and interesting interactions. Let me know how I can assist you.
I appreciate how involved you have already been and see a very significant role for you in this network. I hope you will help us deepen, enrich, and foster our passion for engagement. I loved the quote at your site:
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Harold Whitman
Thank you for contributing some of your online time here. Let me know how I can assist you.
David
We then moved to Sun City Center to take better care of my 101 year old mother. This is a Del Webb retirement community with 4 golf courses about 20 miles from Tampa, just off I-75.
Hope all is well with you.
Ben
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