It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
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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Photo by archer10 (Dennis) (BUSY) 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Photo by woodleywonderworks 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 [...]
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