Show me the value!

Inside a company, all investments should be justified and evaluated based on the value they return.  Coaching, education, facilitation, and other “soft” investments are no different.

The problem is that many times it’s difficult to translate these into hard dollar amounts.  But think about it this way:  There’s many decisions you make which don’t immediately turn into dollars of revenue or profit.

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Showing gratitude

Your organization has survived a tumultuous 2009.  Here we are at the end of the year, at the end of the first decade of the third millennium, but you’ve been able to hang on.  Do your employees know how much you appreciate their hard work and sacrifices?

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You ALWAYS have more resources than you think

OverflowI was doing an interesting exercise with my own coach this morning, working on a major topic for my fledgling company.  In particular, we had a great exploration of resources that I have available to me.  It ended up turning into a “homework assignment” that I’m currently working on.

Here’s what I learned: Continue reading You ALWAYS have more resources than you think

Fear is not engagement

FearAn excellent article in Workforce Management connects with the impending crisis in retention of top employees that I mentioned before:

Commitment Issues—Restoring Employee Engagement

Companies are missing the big picture these days when it comes to employee engagement. And if they don’t widen the lens soon, firms could find themselves crippled in their efforts to claw out from the recession, abandoned by their best workers once hiring picks up and left behind in an emerging business era of greater transparency, interactivity and social responsibility.

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The art of possibility

I thought you would appreciate this wonderful video.  (If it doesn’t play above, you can click here for the original post.)  If you haven’t heard of Benjamin Zander, and his Art of Possibility, this can open your eyes to a different way of thinking.

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