Tag: managers
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Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Stop Recognizing Employees.
This post is a redo of a post from a few years back (about 4 or 5 to be not-exact.) I decided to remix/repost based on a twitter conversation I had with @TrishMcFarlane and @AKABruno (aka Matt Stollack.) Trish said: “Interesting. Recognition makes me uncomfortable (personally) but validation is important to me. Wonder why?” […]
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Employee Engagement is the Result of NOT Being the Hero of Your Own Story
Here’s a question for you. Should you be the hero of your own story? When you describe your career, your job, your function, do you talk about it in a way that makes you the focus of that story? Imagine yourself in an interview. Are you imagining yourself talking about what YOU did? Are you […]
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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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