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Measuring the value of communication has always been important. Today, it’s become something of an obsession, and it’s easy to understand why. But instead of focusing on measuring the value of communications , communicators should concentrate on c... More...

In my last post , I looked at the recent findings of The Conference Board on dramatically falling job satisfaction rates as compared to 20 years ago. But several other reports also show employee engagement rates remaining stable or even increasing d... More...

Employee satisfaction is dramatically down, per The Conference Board . Clearly, employees are growing less satisfied in their work, which lays to rest that ridiculous claim that people should be grateful to just HAVE jobs. While that is in some p... More...

I blog repeatedly on the topic of employee engagement, and I’ll be spending the rest of this week looking at seemingly conflicting reports on the status of engagement currently and the general effect of the recession on employee engagement. But first... More...

The new realities of this economy have challenged business executives at all levels. Uncertainties about the economic recovery, increasing government involvement, rising health care costs, and the motivation of the workforce have placed management in... More...

Blogger, author, speaker Seth Godin published last month a terrific assemblage of 200 word essays from several dozen industry and thought leaders on the one subject, one word, that matters right now to them. Some of my favorites: Jacqueline No... More...

If you subscribe to the belief – “My employees get paid for the work they do. That and just having a job in this economy should be appreciation enough.” – then you are training your employees to care less about their work, to want to invest less of t... More...

Multiple research reports cited in a recent Wall Street Journal article see the job market improving and as a result some top talent already exiting organizations looking for a better opportunity. Right Management found the same in a survey of N... More...

Washington Crossing, PA – More employers are planning to use team-based games in the new year to maintain and build on high employee productivity – which is currently at a 6-year peak. The Learning Key Inc. offers guidelines on how companies c... More...

Some very interesting research has been coming out in multiple sources recently on the work of behavioral economists, results that Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup , summarizes as: “the discovery that human decision making is more emotional... More...

A report out of the UK reveals how thinly stretched the employee/employer contract is becoming as the effects of the recession linger in organizations. The study from the Hay Group highlights that a large majority of employees are choosing to work... More...

Ed Fraunheim wrote an excellent summation of many of the challenges, benefits and techniques for employee engagement in “Commitment Issues” in the November 16, 2009, issue of Workforce Management. Some highlights: • “If businesses want fired-up, d... More...

I think we all generally agree that engaged employees are a powerful force for delivering company success. I think we all also agree that you cannot force employees to engage. You can, however, create work environments and cultures in which employees... More...

Last month the Hay Group issued guidelines for “Engaging and Enabling Employees for Company Success” in Workspan magazine, the publication of WorldatWork . “Retaining top talent is a key concern in good times and bad, given the importanc... More...

In my last post , I mentioned what I think of as David Zinger ’s call to action on employee engagement: “Employee engagement is an experience to be lived not a problem to be solved.” So what does living employee engagement look like from Da... More...

In the last few months, employee engagement has been derided by some as nothing more than the latest industry buzzword or HR bandwagon that everyone is rushing to jump on as the savior of employee loyalty and productivity from the recession. What the... More...

Have you seen that commercial where the kitten walks out soaked from inside the family’s Thanksgiving turkey? It was disturbing to me although not in ways obvious at first. If you haven’t seen the commercial it opens with the quintessential family se... More...

What are the key factors for employee engagement? I and others havewritten at length on this topic. I believe one key factor for employeeengagement is creating an environment in which employees want to engagethrough strategic appreciation of employee... More...

Senior Executives Most Focused on Hiring and Developing Talent. With the economy cautiously turning the corner, senior leaders are focused on hiring and developing talent, according to a survey of more than 450 senior executives on LinkedIn® b... More...

Remember when organizations used to talk about the "internal customer?" You still hear it sometimes, but it's mostly fallen on the trash heap of yesterday's useless business jargon - another example of a cutesy idea turned into a misguided metaphor.... More...

Many companies across North America are dealing with the aftermath of layoffs: low employee morale, productivity and engagement. In this month’s Financial Post Magazine , Razor Suleman , CEO of I Love Rewards, gave his expert view on how to boost e... More...

I don't normally post on Sundays, but today I'm making an exception. Today is Frances Hesselbein's birthday and in her honor I'm posting a chapter I wrote about her from my book Fired Up or Burned Out . Mrs. Hesselbein is the chairman of the Le... More...

A personal commitment to an employer’s core values is the top driver of employee engagement among 91 possible factors analyzed by Right Management in a new global study. The top three factors also include pride in the company’s products and services,... More...

Chief executive officers will have to sharpen their ability to communicate purpose and mission to all employees in order to lead their organizations out of the recession, according to a survey of 164 businesses by Suzanne Bates, author of "Motivate ... More...

Watson Wyatt Worldwide and WorldatWork recently issued their 2009/2010 US Strategic Rewards Report: Looking toward Recovery – Realigning Rewards and Re-Engaging Employees. The report evaluates the impact of the workforce-based actions of the recessio... More...

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Systems of Engagement

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