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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Six Leadership Principles and Values Critical for Millennials
Leadership principles and values have been a subject for discussion since Aristotle. Every writer has their top ten leadership principles and values considered essential for effective leadership. However, the real question is not what they are, but do they mean anything? In the heat of competitive battle, do leadership principles and values get in the…
Time to Rethink Followership!
Let’s Rethink the Idea of Followership! It is time to rethink the idea of followership. I recently attended a conference where one of the speakers spoke glowingly about the need to develop “followership.” Her logic was impeccable. Give the workforce reasons to enjoy following their leaders. Really? Give the employees reasons to enjoy being followers?…
The Employee Experience – 9 Steps to Radical Employee Transformation
Forward thinking organizations are realizing that a great customer experience is dependent upon a great workforce experience. But who is responsible?
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.
When Cooperate Ethics Drives Performance
There is no conflict between the morality of taking care of workers and expecting high stakeholder value. In fact, taking care of the workforce drives stakeholder value. Excellence combines both the moral argument of care for people and the economic driver of stakeholder value
Innovations in Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Systems, Organizational Leadership, Systems Thinking
Value in Values In Organizations of Excellence
Private organizations have much they could learn from the military. Everyday, the armed forces take ordinary young men and women and turn them into leaders. It is a routine and we can all learn much by their process and example.
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?
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.