People say that I can pretty much say it all in one cartoon, so here is my attempt to show how...
manager as motivator
Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly – Thoughts on Change – Part One
This is Part One of Teaching The Caterpillar to Fly - Thoughts on Change, a five-part post on...
Defusing Conflict to Improve Communications and Engagement
Workplace performance and productivity are critical issues for so many of us during those 30 to 60...
A softball cartoon on employee engagement…
John Junson, a cartoonist working with David Zinger at The Employee Engagement Network, just...
Employee Engagement for Everyone – a book by Kevin Kruse
Until Friday, the 28th of June, 2013 (thus this timely post!), you can download Kevin's new book...
Seriously? Are we making progress yet on engagement?
I will admit to being a little frustrated when it comes to workplace issues of people and...
Top Performers Least Engaged Workers? Low Performers Most Involved?
In 4 of 10 companies, low performers were more engaged than the high performers, a paradox that...
Managers. Leaders. Engagement. Involvement. Not! (And what we can do)
For the past two weeks, we have 50 or so people engaged in a LinkedIn conversation about: "We're...
Going Postal – Workplace violence and Engagement
As regular readers know, I write a lot on the themes of employee productivity and workplace...
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration are common issues in many of today's...
Roll Better Ideas Forward – Improve Engagement and Innovation
The old brainstorming process works. It just does not work very well. And there are lots of ideas...
Tons of Good Writings, so why is improvement so hard? Part Two
This is the second of two articles that hammer on the issues around supervision and how they...
Communications, Pressure, and Stepping Back from the Wagon
We use the metaphor of "Stepping back from the Wagon" as a way of saying that perspective and...
Flying by the seat of your pants – NOT the way to Engaging Employees
In the process of writing a new newsletter on the criticality of supervisors in organizations, I...
Thoughts on building a high performance environment – Teamwork and Flow
"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...