Are You Engaging Your Most Important Assets?

So how does a company become nurturing and fully engaging internally? The short answer is through understanding and building an environment where employees feel like valued assets. Companies need to make sincere efforts to understand their employees, their struggles, their frustrations and their needs. Then they need to build an environment that encourages employees to use their discretionary effort to help create a sustainable competitive advantage. Watch this video and ask yourself whether or not your company is doing enough to engage employees.

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Comment by Terrence Seamon on December 24, 2009 at 1:26pm: well done, Judy.

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