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]]> By: David Zinger http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-macleod-review-this-is-required-reading-3523/comment-page-1/#comment-2777 David Zinger Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:21:20 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=3523#comment-2777 Sean: Excellent points about innovation. David Sean:
Excellent points about innovation.
David

]]> By: Sean Trainor http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-macleod-review-this-is-required-reading-3523/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 Sean Trainor Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:35:57 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=3523#comment-2776 In Lord Mandelson’s introduction to this report he states:“organisations that truly engage and inspire their employees produce world class levels of innovation” The key word is innovation, yet I get no sense that this is high up on leadership agenda. In fact, the report says that leaders believe that innovation will become more increasingly important over the next three years yet managers appear to be increasingly less likely to encourage innovation in the workplace: less than half of all employees say that their manager encouraged and supported new ways of doing things, developing their own ideas or trying out new ideas (decline of 20% in the last year). For me the priority for change in business is for leaders to adopt more innovative ways to engage their managers and their employees. That’s not about micro-analysis of ‘performance’ measures and ‘engagement’ scores but encouraging innovation and ideas in the workplace that are focused on competitive advantage and differentiation of your brand. That’s what inspires people. Even the micro-analysts will be inspired as they will be able to show an increase in ‘performance’ and ‘engagement’ metrics. A win-win. In Lord Mandelson’s introduction to this report he states:“organisations that truly engage and inspire their employees produce world class levels of innovation”
The key word is innovation, yet I get no sense that this is high up on leadership agenda. In fact, the report says that leaders believe that innovation will become more increasingly important over the next three years yet managers appear to be increasingly less likely to encourage innovation in the workplace: less than half of all employees say that their manager encouraged and supported new ways of doing things, developing their own ideas or trying out new ideas (decline of 20% in the last year).
For me the priority for change in business is for leaders to adopt more innovative ways to engage their managers and their employees. That’s not about micro-analysis of ‘performance’ measures and ‘engagement’ scores but encouraging innovation and ideas in the workplace that are focused on competitive advantage and differentiation of your brand. That’s what inspires people. Even the micro-analysts will be inspired as they will be able to show an increase in ‘performance’ and ‘engagement’ metrics. A win-win.

]]> By: David Zinger http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-macleod-review-this-is-required-reading-3523/comment-page-1/#comment-2771 David Zinger Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:53:11 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=3523#comment-2771 Jon, I appreciate your comment. And it sure does have a lot of useful information. I saw a criticism about lack of specific recommendations so I guess that is similar to your view about conclusions. I appreciate that it has given more attention to employee engagement and may add more credibility to the people who see engagement as mushy stuff. David Jon,
I appreciate your comment. And it sure does have a lot of useful information. I saw a criticism about lack of specific recommendations so I guess that is similar to your view about conclusions. I appreciate that it has given more attention to employee engagement and may add more credibility to the people who see engagement as mushy stuff.
David

]]> By: Jon Ingham http://www.davidzinger.com/employee-engagement-macleod-review-this-is-required-reading-3523/comment-page-1/#comment-2770 Jon Ingham Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:44:37 +0000 http://www.davidzinger.com/?p=3523#comment-2770 David, my review is here: http://strategic-hcm.blogspot.com/2009/07/macleod-review.html . In overview, I thought it was a more valuable document than I thought it was going to be (David MacLeod's book on engagement isn't one of my favourites). And it contains lots of great information on engagement which makes it almost as valuable a resource as this ning! I just thought the conclusions were a bit lacking (I don't see government as key to improving things) - but this is of course where it gets more difficult. If it was easy, there'd be no point in the review, and I guess the 1322 people here would be doing something else with their time. But it's certainly a very significant contribution to raising awareness and generating thinking - in the UK and elsewhere. David, my review is here:

http://strategic-hcm.blogspot.com/2009/07/macleod-review.html .

In overview, I thought it was a more valuable document than I thought it was going to be (David MacLeod’s book on engagement isn’t one of my favourites). And it contains lots of great information on engagement which makes it almost as valuable a resource as this ning!

I just thought the conclusions were a bit lacking (I don’t see government as key to improving things) – but this is of course where it gets more difficult. If it was easy, there’d be no point in the review, and I guess the 1322 people here would be doing something else with their time.

But it’s certainly a very significant contribution to raising awareness and generating thinking – in the UK and elsewhere.

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