Managing Economic Mayhem: When life throws you a lemon….duck!
A Personal 8-Point Manager Manifesto During Economic Mayhem Here is a brief manifesto for managers during the current state of economic mayhem. Expect disengagement. People are concerned for their finances, their jobs, their work and their organizations. You should expect temporary acute spells of disengagement as people experience fears, worry, and uncertainty. As you see […]
An Employee Engagement Rx: Flextime
What time is it Mr. Wolf? Without time flexibility we may be gobbling up employee’s lives and contributing to their disengagement. Flextime. How flexible is your time at work? An important ingredient in fostering employee engagement is to offer employees flexible hours of work so they can respond to other important elements in their life […]
New Wisdom for Employee Engagement
Can we learn anything about employee engagement from the field of improvisation? My answer: absolutely. But why go with my answer when we have the author of Improv Wisdom here to share insights and practices. Tom Peters, one of the top management speakers/consultants has included Patricia Madson as one of his cool friends for her […]
ZENgagement: From you to me to us.
Sometimes I get angry when I hear leaders or managers talk about employee engagement as something for employees or “those people” while neglecting or forgetting that they are employees too! When we are divided or disconnected how can we expect anything different than disengagement. To be humble is not to make comparsions. Secure in its […]
Employee Engagement: Get Unstuck with Crucial Conversations
My primary focus is employee engagement. Crucial Conversations can improve employee engagement. When employees feel safe because of mutual respect and mutual purpose they are more likely to engage in work. I have been fortunate over the past year to teach numerous Crucial Conversations courses. Crucial Conversations is a great approach to getting results and building relationships […]
Employee Engagement Toppling Over
Research has shown that there are three particular factors that put people under increased risk from stress: lack of control over the job; quantitative or qualitative job overload or under-load; lack of support from managers and colleagues. What can you do to enhance control, balance load, and buttress support? Photo Credit: 4-3-2-1 by http://flickr.com/photos/bytepusher/166457814/
Employee Engagement Chronicle #6
David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, click on the author or source name at the start of each summary to study the full […]
The 10 Simple Laws of Employee Engagement
Can you make employee engagement simple? John Maeda. a professor in MIT’s Meida Lab, is the master of simplicity. He wrote a compelling book, The Laws of Simplicity. In this article I apply Maeda’s 10 laws and 3 keys of simplicity to employee engagement. TEN LAWS 1. REDUCE. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through […]
Employee Engagement Chronicle (special)
Do you help employees keep the thrill alive? Peter Vajda has written a detailed and insightful post on employee engagement at Slow Leadership. The key sections include the causes of disengagement, the solutions, and how to “keep the thrill alive.” I encourage you to read the post to learn a lot more from Peter’s insight […]
Employee Engagement is Connection
Employee engagement is connection. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. the sun shines not on us, but in us; the rivers flow not past, but through us. ~ John Muir Employee engagement is: Connection to our authentic self. Connection to our work. […]