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Engagement

Successful leaders demonstrate courage, focus and engagement

17 May 2009

“Leadership Matters: Appreciate GE’s Immelt” by Todd Thomas makes the following insightful observations after observing successful leaders such as Jeffrey Immelt CEO of General Electric, John Stumpf CEO of Wells Fargo and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.
Courage: Each of these leaders, and those around them, exhibit the courage to make the decisions they feel they [...]

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Research reveals six key drivers for inspiring and retaining top talent

19 May 2008

“Take my 20 best people, and virtually overnight, Microsoft becomes a mediocre company.” – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

Great leaders are always of the lookout for talent and recognise the contribution and importance of other people in their success. Talent Management has a great article titled “Taking the Talent Pulse: What Drives High Potentials?” discussing [...]

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Leader as social architect…

24 March 2008

The need for effective "social architectures" within organisation is critical if we are too ensure that we develop future leaders, to drive innovation and to create an organisation that has a great legacy. If we examine our leadership, I’m sure we’ll find that meetings are where we do much, if not most, of our leading. [...]

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How employee engagement affects your organisation…

29 December 2007

I have previously discussed the importance of employee engagement to leadership (here, here, here and here) and was defined in a post as:
“a heightened emotional connection that an employee feels for his or her organization, that influences him or her to exert greater discretionary effort to his or her work”

Why is employee engagement important? Because [...]

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Resolving stuck conversations…..

25 June 2007

I have posted before on the importance of conversation in leadership (here and here). Meaningful strategic conversation is an emotionally draining and difficult leadership task. However without meaningful conversation, buy-in and commitment remains elusive, as was observed by Steven Covey “no involvement, no commitment“. Meaning conversation creates involvement……. which generates the commitment …… and…… it’s commitment that ensures aligned action and an effective end [...]

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Are you demotivating your employees?

13 June 2007

Harvard Working Knowledge published an article by by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer, “Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation” on motivation that really resonated with me. A large part of a leaders job involves initiating and leading change and this requires of leaders the ability motivate and inspire others to join them on the journey. Unlike [...]

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Passion and engagement equals increased profits

31 May 2007

I have highlighted previously the importance of employee engagement and meaning.  A new study by Philadelphia-based consultants PeopleMetrics, supports the previous posts, highlighting the importance of engagement and meaning in driving corporate profits. The study surveyed more than 5,095 workers, across the United States and found that Fortune 500 companies in the lowest quartile in company profitability had 50% fewer [...]

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How to get more passion into the workplace…

17 May 2007

Motto Magazine published an interview with Deepak Chopra in the interview he is asked the question “How can companies and individuals bring more passion and soul to the workplace?” I thought that his answer was deeply insightful:
The way to get more passion in the workplace is to actually change the way we select people for [...]

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Defining Employee Engagement

11 March 2007

Management-Issues has an interesting post on Employee engagement. The Conference Board published “Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications” in 2006 which review research conducted by 12 major research companies on employee engagement. Looking across these studies resulted in employee engagement being defined as:
“a heightened emotional connection that an employee feels for [...]

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The ten C’s of employee engagement

27 February 2007

I’ve posted before on the importance of engagement (here, here and here). I recently stumbled across an interesting article “The ten C’s of employee engagement” from The Ivey Business Journal which provides a number of insightful pointers as to what’s required to improve employee engagement. The authors describe an engaged employee as a person who:
“….is [...]

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