Good points about sustaining the work. As your book title states they are Fired Up and now the sustaining process continues without being burned out.

David

Excellent post. I enjoyed the Gallup article too. It’s very wise of Mars to have a Global Project Manager for Employee Engagement and wise of Jennifer Schulte, the aforementioned project manager, to organize the Line Manager Learning Community. I wonder how she plans to expand the community? It will be critical for prospective community members to understand that employee engagement best practices meet universal human needs for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning? By developing an awareness of these universal human needs and the effect certain behaviors have on meeting them or creating need deficits that drive dysfunctional and destructive behavior, potential community members will be motivated to join the community and do the hard work that is necessary to develop the habits of engaging leadership. It will be useful for Jennifer to develop the internal communications and training programs that progress leaders from awareness of her work to consideration, trail and loyalty. She’s certainly off to a great start and way ahead of most organizations!