Employee Engagement Blog Posts

Posted in Leadership Developmenthttp://trailblazeinc.com/2013/04/the-minimalist-guide-to-motivate-your-employees/Make It Stop! I could almost hear his anguish… A young supervisor had gone to Twitter in desperation: “How can I ever motivate my tea...

Posted in Leadership DevelopmentTeam DynamicsWorkplace Issues5 Ways to Prevent Your Employees from Turning into the Walking Dead Zombies are in vogue right now.  I confess I’m a fan of TV show The Walking Dead.  I turn my head away at the zombie...

Posted in Career DevelopmentChange ManagementLeadership CoachingDennis W. Bakke is a CEO and an entrepreneur.  He is currently the manager of Imagine Schools, a commercial charter school.  He is also an author of Creating Abundance, published in 19...

Posted in Leadership DevelopmentAt a time when companies are looking for ways to reduce costs and become more productive, employee recognition can be a powerful force for engaging employees and unleashing their full potential. Unfortunately, there is...

Posted in Career DevelopmentLeadership CoachingLeadership DevelopmentSelf LeadershipTeam DynamicsValue CreationWorkplace IssuesWhen employees come to speak with you, do you put everything down, turn off your phone, and feel truly eager to hear their...

Posted in Leadership CoachingLeadership DevelopmentWorkplace IssuesNo nation in the history of the world has paid greater respect for the value of the individual voice than the United States. Moving into the 2012 holiday season, following an incredib...

Posted in Change ManagementLeadership CoachingLeadership Developmenthttp://www.massingenuity.com/2012/12/17/the-accidental-organization/It’s critical to recognize that “You get what you got until you decided to create what you want.” Organizati...

Posted in Leadership DevelopmentEarlier this year, Emily Esfahani Smith wrote an article in The Atlantic titled, “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy.”  Now, I’m not ready to throw in the towel on my pursuit of happily ever after&#...

Posted in Change ManagementValue CreationWorkplace IssuesEveryone, it seems, is talking about change and the need to change.  But somehow we keep repeating a familiar pattern.  It’s like going to the edge of a 50-foot cliff and jumping when all y...

Posted in Workplace IssuesOne of the reasons I am passionate about leadership is because I believe our leaders now and in the future have the skill, position, influence and potential to help prevent and cure suffering at work. Suffering you might ask...

Posted in Leadership CoachingLeadership Developmenthttp://www.massingenuity.com/2012/11/13/whatever-you-do-be-outstanding/A couple years ago, I heard General Colin Powell speak about the man who cleaned his office when he was the U.S. Secretary of St...

Posted in Career DevelopmentLeadership CoachingLeadership DevelopmentValue CreationWorkplace IssuesA surprising number of organizations still deliver once-a-year performance appraisals without providing much interim feedback. Have you considered the...

Posted in Leadership CoachingLeadership Developmenthttp://www.massingenuity.com/2012/11/19/whats-in-it-for-me-is-whats-in-it-for-you/I talk to people all the time about what motivates them at work. The most common answer I hear is, “I like to help...

Posted in Leadership Developmenthttp://switchandshift.com/the-keys-to-fostering-sustainable-engagementAccountability is closely tied to employee engagement. Unfortunately, this critical and deeply personal relationship is too often overlooked. If...

Businesses ought not to take employee engagement lightly. A highly engaged workforce is business capital for any company. Think about this, satisfied employees would more often than not resist the temptation to leave a company that inspires their hum...

Posted in Change ManagementCommunication is key to execute a change project. Believing that your team will implement change without fully understanding the objectives or the reasons for the change will lead to failure.  Here are 5 tips for communica...

Posted in Change ManagementCommunication is key to execute a change project. Believing that your team will implement change without fully understanding the objectives or the reasons for the change will lead to failure.  Here are 5 tips for communica...

Posted in Change ManagementLeadership CoachingLeadership DevelopmentTeam DynamicsValue CreationWorkplace IssuesIn your organization, how much employee input does management get before deciding a course of action? Not much? You might want to rethink t...

Posted in Change ManagementLeadership CoachingSome time back I was giving a presentation to about 80 people who worked for a large state agency. I was asking them about problems they saw in their routine work, problems that wasted their time and stat...

Posted in Leadership CoachingTeam DynamicsValue CreationWorkplace IssuesIs your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization. Have you pin...