Six Employee Engagement Strategies Of High-Impact Organizations Two broad assumptions form the foundation for modern workforce engagement strategies. First, workforce engagement is the responsibility of every employee. it is the responsibility of the employee to arrive at work excited to give their best. If they don’t, remediation is required. The second assumption is that workforce…
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Five Strategies to Create Human Centric Leadership
It is time to think about love in the same breath with leadership. It is word we don’t use too often, especially in a fast passed technology driven, competitive market. Yet when leaders of world class organizations speak of love, it is time we start paying attention.
The Employee Experience is a Matter of Strategy
Forward thinking companies are beginning to think about the employee experience. After all, it is the employees that create the customer experience, right?
Engaging Employees: A Competitive Edge
The latest Gallup numbers tell us that engaging employees is a central fixture with organizations that consistently maximize their impact. Here is a true story of a company with high levels of employee engagement. I had finished a tour of a manufacturing company. They design and manufacture custom commercial and retail furniture. Their size prohibits…
Designing The System of Leadership
Are leaders born or are they made? According to General Jim Mattis, legendary General of the US Marine Corps, they are taught. This according to his recent book, Call Sign Chaos, Learning to Lead
Innovations in Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Systems, Organizational Leadership, Systems Thinking
Leadership as an Organizational System?
Elite organizations do not leave the critically important function of leadership up to the good will of a few. They intentionally design their system of leadership to give them the best opportunity of achieving their business objectives.
Innovations in Leadership, Leadership, Measuring the System of Leadership, Organizational Leadership
Employee Engagement Strategies
1999 David Marquet took command of the USS Santa Fe. The platform of his leadership was superior technical competency. Unfortunately, the Santa Fe was a ship for which he had no superior competency. Therefore, he was forced to design a new system of leadership. One that would engage the entire crew to be leaders.
Making Team Collaboration The Norm
Creating cultures of collaboration. How can leadership create cultures of collaboration or more to the point, why don’t they? Reasons abound, pride, disrespect, people are seen as units of production, or maybe because leaders are not paid to collaborate?
Psychological Safety in the Workforce
Innovation is seldom a light bulb moment of genius. Usually, it is a collaborative process of sharing ideas.
Employee Management Vs. Employee Development
How an innovating design to organizational leadership turned a failing elementary school to one of the highest performing schools and the only school to close the achievement gap within a district of 25,000 students.