Managers, when it comes to your employees where does professional development rank in your list of priorities?
A. It’s vitally important and I discuss it frequently
B. It’s important but don’t talk about it much
C. It’s not important - or - there are more important things to focus on
If you answered ‘A’ above…congratulations! Keep on doing what [...]

This weekend, I took Katie and Leah to one of the many local parks here in Austin. The brilliant thing about our city parks are the really neat playgrounds…and on weekends, there are always a gaggle of kids enjoying the freedom of playing. As I watched, it occurred to me (with a little help from [...]

Want to know the power of a system? Consider this…if you place a good manager within a bad system, they will founder nine times out of ten. Same goes for individuals; a bad system will dilute a superstar employee’s potential. Yet, how many times are we willing to give up on, demote, or release an [...]

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 [...]

At first, I was just going to make a short comment at Ben Martin’s blog on his latest post concerning organizations and branding. Yet, the more I thought about it and started writing I realized this is a blog post in its own right. Putting aside the dialogue on marketing, the central theme of the [...]