Are you someone who sees the status quo inside your business and has an overwhelming desire to shake things up? Do you get frustrated by the often glacial pace of change and feel the need to speed it up? Do you exhibit a relentless and courageous ability to point out elephants of all sizes lurking [...]

A little while back at the Employee Engagement Network, David Zinger posed a question to the group about important engagement statistics. He writes:
In an interview about the book StrengthsFinder 2.0 for the Gallup Management Journal, Tom Rath discussed the strong link between a leader’s focus and employee engagement. Here were the 3 powerful conclusions from [...]

Once upon a time, the Washington Post had a feature in its Sunday edition called Life As Haiku (they may still have it, but I can’t find it easily online). Each week, the WaPo published vignettes from the everyday life of two individuals. They’d typically be no longer than a couple of paragraphs, but contain [...]

Jodee Bock offered some insight that’s worth sharing: “It’s always interesting to me how people, no matter what occupation or what length of time they’re been in the workforce, can always relate to Dilbert. Why is that? Haven’t we learned enough yet to get rid of that mentality?” I guess the real question may be…”When [...]

Best Practices. Even the term sounds like easy success, doesn’t it? What could possibly go wrong if you implement what works for other organizations in your own organization? Yes, the lure of proven strategies has a very strong appeal. But I’m going to challenge folks to stuff some beeswax in their ears when they [...]