Enterprise Commitment
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ExchangeGain Interview with Les McKeown
Les McKeown, author of The Synergist, talks about three types of leaders, their styles, and team chemistry. Les explains the Visionary, Operator, and Processor leadership preferences…. Read More»
An Unseen Culprit Draining Workplace Morale
Do you dread going to work? Given a myriad of research findings in low employee engagement, disenchantment with pay for underperforming executives, even absence of employee passion for their work, it’s not hard to conclude employees dread their workplace. Dread is an unseen culprit draining workplace morale. What a disturbing sight: an army of talented, […] Read more… Read More»
Role of Meaning-Makers in Employee Engagement
For the past month, Ted and I hosted some extraordinary thinkers who ruminated on the value, application and future of employee engagement. First we want to thank all who participated. We learn from you and are honored to share your voice on this important topic. This brings me to a question I want to […] Read more… Read More»
Winning Employees through Engagement
Scroll below to find the first four posts in the series. Great stuff from Ellen Weber, Roy Saunderson, Tanveer Naseer, and Todd Dewett It’s estimated that employees and managers give ⅓ of their adult lives to employers. Layer that sobering percentage with an October 2011 Gallup finding that seventy-one percent of American Workers are either […] Read more… Read More»
I Lost My Heart at Work
Somewhere in countless, windowless meeting rooms, we lost our hearts at work. Hearts have gone missing. Trampled upon mistaken for roaches. Many seen fleeing office buildings away from the abundant fluorescent lighting. Hearts have grown weak from a lack of use; told they aren’t needed and to make room for the brains, hands, and feet. […] Read more… Read More»
3 Beliefs Limiting Your Leadership
Command and control leadership will always be an option for managers. For as long as any one manager unquestionably believes his ideas and ways are better than another’s, then command and control will thrive. That’s hardly notable. What is worth examining is what impels a manager to choose command and control leadership. I believe the […] Read more… Read More»
Value of “Going Dark” on Vacation
My client asked if I planned to “go dark” while on vacation. She asked in an encouraging manner that I appreciated. I was going dark. I had no intentions to check emails, voice mails, or write a blog post. I just completed my MBA. As a working professional and working on my master’s degree, I […] Read more… Read More»
3 Options to Unleash Employee Motivation
It seems incompetent leadership is worrying employees. Right Management surveyed employees to find out what they want to avoid in their next job. Apparently 51% want to avoid incompetent bosses. The results aren’t surprising given the typical management trajectory in this post-Great Recession era. By typical I’m referring to the hyper focus on tangible management […] Read more… Read More»
In what condition will you leave your team?
The era that placed managers as the paragons of leadership commandeering business to success is dead. This inflated sense of importance has led to rampant egotism felling once great companies to ruins. Think Enron. Think Lehman Brothers. Think Standard Chartered. Think Bernie Madoff’s company. Certainly it takes a strong personality to lead, no matter the […] Read more… Read More»