Tag: humans
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Worst. Post. EVER. About. Employee. Engagement.
A recent article on Forbes caught my eye because the headline said “The Real Reason to Care About Employee Engagement.” I always love to jump into posts that start with either “the secret to” or “the top three things to do to drive engagement” or “the only thing you need to worry about to drive…
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The 4 Basic Human Needs, no 3, no 6, no 7 – Aw the hell with it…
I just saw a post on the 4 human needs that have to be satisfied for engagement and motivation to occur in your company. I’ll add that article to the pile with other articles telling me about 7 needs, 3 needs, Maslow’s needs, Dan Pink’s needs, the bee’s knees…wait that’s knees not needs… oh well I’m…
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Employee Enhancement VS Employee Engagement?
Before you get all excited know this is NOT a post about “Smiling Bob” and Enzyte. This is a post about reframing a discussion around employees and their relationship with the organization. We all know that employee engagement is the new black. It’s also the new orange. It’s actually the whole rainbow of colors. If you’re…
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Employee Engagement is Context Not Content
Employee engagement is soooooo 2000 and late. It’s all about “human” now. At least that seems to be the take away from the HRTech conference held last week in Vegas. Everything was about human connections. Bloggers blogged about it. Signs signed about it. Speakers spoke about it. And I wrote about it – three years…
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Not One Company Asked Their Employees About Engagement and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next…
Coming in hot from a trip to the west coast where I had great conversations and less great sleep. Nothing says “good sleep” than an economy coach seat, a hyperactive seat mate, no window and a faulty overhead air blower. #Winning! But I shouldn’t complain… as Louis CK says: “‘I had to sit on the…
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Crap Advice On Recognition from Inc Magazine – #SMDH
Normally I let articles in the mainstream media that are patently incorrect slide by. There’s just too many of them for me to waste my time trying to correct the idiocy that passes for business journalism in today’s world. It seems to be more prevalent with articles that address the psychology of motivation and engagement…
Paul Hebert Unwrapped 