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Employee Engagement is OVER? Maybe that is a good thing!
An email from Mercer/Sirota today was headlined, "Employee Engagement is so over! Ok, maybe not...
“It makes sense to us” – Thoughts on disengagement and customer service quality
A trip to the library should be enlightening, and I read a lot of books so I go at least twice a...
Dr. Seuss on Disruptive Engagement
Even Dr. Seuss would understand the issues and opportunities around disruptive engagement and the...
Disruptive Engagement – 6 Blogs and 4 Illustrations
Disruptive Engagement is our reframe about the involvement and engagement of people in the...
The Hubcap Report – a note on Task Interference and Supervisors
These days, my focus continues to be on people and performance, with more consideration around The...
Managers – How Square Wheels can impact their workplaces
I got three fast notes from an HR director from an Indian company this morning. He and I had...
Disruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...
Monkeys, Management and Motivation – Simple Ideas
A blog about issues around corporate cultures and normative behaviors that make no apparent sense,
BOSS: Spelled Backwards
Boss. In organizations, a lot of people know precisely who that is. And that can be a positive or...
Learning Skills, Note Taking, and Improving Performance
I will admit that I was never much of a student when in school. It was an 82 average in high...
Engagement – The Day AFTER National Employee Appreciation Day
I popped up a short post on doing a Day of Un-Appreciation every year, with the idea that doing a...
Better Roadblock Management – Dis-Un-Empowerment and Square Wheels
My regular readers know that I use images and metaphors to express a lot of my thinking. My basic...
Trust and Respect: Should you force your managers to lie, PlanetFitness?
I wrote a few weeks ago about the Wade Hampton PlanetFitness gym and their apparent policy of zero...
Zero Engagement at PlanetFitness?
For almost a year, I have gone to the PlanetFitness operation not far from my office. They did a...