Julie Winkle Giulioni

This article originally appeared at SmartBlog on Leadership in November 2012. After dedicating a large portion of my professional life to helping leaders develop new skills to improve workplace performance, I’ve come to a startling (and perhaps career-limiting) conclusion: Employee engagement, motivation, and results are less about introducing new leadership behaviors and more about just stopping the stuff that makes employees crazy. Let me frame this as a little parable. Leaders in a mythical company worked diligently to create a lovely gardened footpath. They design it to honor, inspire and rejuvenate the workforce. But no one used it. Why? Because …Continue reading →The post Stop Driving Employees Nuts appeared first on Julie Winkle Giulioni. http://www.juliewinklegiulioni.com/blog/career-matters/stop-driving-employees-nuts/