Archive for October, 2006

Engagement by the numbers »

Jack Welch believes the best picture of a company’s well-being comes from, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. By the way, cash flow comes third. Jack believes that employee engagement is perhaps the most telling indicator of competitive advantage.
Here are some statistics from ISR, a Chicago firm that studied engagement of 664,000 employees from […]

The One Thing: Why try harder? »

Marcus Buckinghm wrote an insightful book: The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success. I liked the book but was surprised that it took over 280 pages to state the one thing. Many blog readers are not willing to take that much time to read (unlike […]

Canada Post: Putting a stamp on engagement »

Go Canada(Post) Go
Moya Greene, the President of Canada Post, has made employee engagement a top priority in the corporation.
Since she took the top spot 18 months ago she has engaged in the work of employees -  from delivering mail to sorting parcels. She writes a blog and answers all of the employees questions. I have […]

Write White for Engagement »

Micheal Stelzner has written a very informative book on: Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged. Not only do we strive to gain workplace engagement and personal engagement we can benefit by learning how to keep readers engaged.  Here is a quote from Micheal on white papers:
We live in a world […]