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Employee Engagement Friday Factoid #28: Innovation

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Yeah, innovation is growing in importance but we’re not very good at it.

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According to an i4cp and American Management Association survey of 327 business leaders 83% believe innovation will be more important in the future yet only 28% of organizations perceive themselves as effective at innovation.

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This says to me that almost all of us believe innovation is growing in importance yet three quarters of us suck at it. What do we need to do to engage and enable employees to be more innovative?

David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers with engagement.

Employee Engagement Meditation: Shredded Tweet

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My information ceiling has collapsed to the height of a crawl space

How can we read between the lines when we don’t even read the lines anymore?

I tweet. I don’t read tweets, I scan them. If I think the link in a tweet to an article is great I don’t read the article I just re-tweet. I am finding blog post are stretching to the outer limits of the length of prose I can read. And trying to read a book feels more like wading through the complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica.  I ponder if USA Today articles should be shorter as I scavenge for a factoid.  Of course on Facebook when something really seems good I energize my mouse by clicking on LIKE. I wonder, does Facebook count as reading a book? In my personal kingdom of information I have come to resemble Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus who told Mozart, “My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all.”

Join the Employee Engagement Network Before July 21!

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The Employee Engagement Network needs 35 more members to reach 5000 members

We offer over 9000 free resources for you on employee engagement:

  • Reach out to over 4960 members.
  • Watch 384 videos.
  • Download 8 free e-books.
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  • Read 2955 blog posts.
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  • Participate in 95 events
  • Laugh at the new weekly employee engagement cartoon!

John Junson is the network cartoonist and designer. He created the design and colors for the network. He created our unique symbol/brand. He designed all the free e-books. He has been involved in this work before it went online over four years ago. His birthday is July 21 and I want to see if we can have the community at 5000 members for his birthday. Engage along with me to give John 5000 “gifts” for his birthday.

Please help. If you have not joined, join today. If you are a member and appreciate the resources and people encourage someone else to join. Membership is both free and freeing.

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