All Things Related to employee engagement
06.04.2008
I’m always excited when a book on employee engagement comes into my field of vision. It just adds more validity to the principles and practice behind the work I do to help organizations design a remarkable work experience. A fairly recent book added to my library is Sybil Stershic’s Taking Care of the People Who [...]
05.15.2008
I try not to stray too far away from the core topics behind the Alchemy of Soulful Work (though maybe I should be a little more lax with this), but I’m compelled to write today as a part of the Bloggers Unite for Human Rights event. For me, the reason is simple: without basic human [...]
05.08.2008
Over at Mission Minded Management, Michelle Malay Carter asks whether hiring star performers can be a mistake. At the heart of the question is the danger of hiring someone who is overqualified per the job role (as well as underqualified): Our data shows one in five people is in a role that does not tap [...]
03.27.2008
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 [...]
12.12.2007
Here’s an interesting perspective on work and career management from the design world. Carl Alviani at Coroflot writes: The punchline is that many other professions are starting to resemble ours. Increasingly service-oriented, globalized economies are bringing this type of transience to once rock-solid professions, to the point where analysts and middle managers are building portfolios [...]
03.16.2005
I came across a couple of surveys that sort of flew below my radar. Harris Interactive conducted a survey titled The New Employer/Employee Equation Survey and published its findings a little over a month ago. I guess the reason that it didn’t get much play is that the results weren’t (unfortunately) really that surprising. Most [...]
