Beating the Crisis of Ethics
Flavour of the past week has undoubtedly be the question of ethics. Editorial comments have abounded and most, if not all, the newsletters I have … Read more
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How to Unlock Innovation
Just imagine how you could transform your results if you could:-
Inspire you people towards a common goal;
Enable them to stretch themselves to fulfil their own potential in the process; and
Collaborate effectively to achieve that common purpose.
My model of employee ownership provides the framework to create this.
Dealing with Change: Present and Future Engagement
Employee engagement provides a convenient heading for describing what you need, and some solutions for what can help. But unless you provide a framework that addresses both employees’ immediate and future needs your efforts will be doomed, and you will experience the same lack of strategic success that Harvard and Fortune describe.
Why Valuing Employees Makes Sound Business Sense
The 3 P’s – Product, Process and People – are defined as the key elements of any organisation. Yet service is an integral part of product – and even THE product in a service organisation – while process also necessitates some human intervention somewhere along the line. This means that people are actually key to all three elements. Surely, this has to make people your most important asset.
In which case it seems imperative that you should account for, manage and treat them as such.
Customer Experience: Are You Setting Up for Failure?
Thus the slip between cup and lip, strategy and implementation, can be enormous if your focus is wrong and your people are not fully engaged. So make sure when you set customer experience as a measure that it is something over which you have total control and that you are not setting yourself up for failure.
Organisational Development is about Your People
Where do you fit on the chart below? Naturally the answer depends on what aspect of your life you are measuring. So let’s give it … Read more
How red tape strangles employee engagement
My apologies to my devoted fans (you know who you are LOL) for being late with this week’s blog. I hope you will forgive me … Read more
Revealed: The Link between Purpose and Powerful Employee Engagement
Now you can see how closely allied purpose and employee engagement are. The more you can align these three drivers of individual and organisational purpose the more engaged your employees will be, and the better your organisational performance.
Beware Employee Engagement Hyperbole!
At the end of the day employees are people and employee engagement is ultimately about nothing more than how best to deal with your people; by treating them as human beings. After all, as Conant clarified, they are what ultimately determine your success.
Why You Need Employees – and Especially Engaged Employees
Included in yesterday’s reports of falling UK unemployment was a statistic that a record number of people are self-employed. You cannot help wondering what this … Read more