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Engagement comes from the combination of investing one’s passion and energies plus the trust that those energies will not be in vain.
- Jeff Rogers
I just had to share this quote with you today, as it’s so appropriate for what we’ve been talking about with engaging your employees with their work.
What would cause an employee to trust that their work won’t be in vain?
Continue reading Engaging in your work and life
 You might have heard the notion of leader as servant. I imagine that it might be based in concepts from Christianity, but I don’t know for sure. At any rate, I’ve had a chance to learn about the concept and apply it to my leadership in volunteer groups and the workplace.
You’d like to think that the idea is simple:
- A leader’s results are delivered because of the work the team does.
- The leader can help his team to deliver those results by helping to remove obstacles and facilitate action.
- As a result, the leader can be the most value by thinking of himself as a servant of the team.
But this is just a starting place, it’s not the full story.
Continue reading The servant leader
Today, we understand that motivation — and therefore engagement — comes from loving what you do. You love what you do when you are in the right job, feel valued and are given opportunities to grow. Get your people to love what they do, and they are yours — fully engaged.
- Terri Kabachnick
 I’m going to take this discussion in a different direction than you might expect, given this quote.
The concept that Ms. Kabachnick conveys here is true, but … limited. It’s true that loving what you do leads to engagement.
Continue reading Loving what you do
 Your people can only be productive if they’re applying their full efforts to what they should be achieving, and avoiding other distractions.
This is really, really hard. You have to be able to clearly say YES, and more important, to clearly say NO.
Continue reading Leadership principle #4: Clarity
 Gallup Management Journal recently released an article on the connection between employee engagement and health. I can’t say that I’m excited by their title, Disengagement Can Be Really Depressing,because that just implies that disengaged employees are, well, unhappy.
Duh.
But if you listen to the podcast (free), you’ll see that the connection is much more powerful:
 It’s not uncommon for me to be approached by a client who is totally overwhelmed: No time to think, no space to regroup, no energy to look at the big picture. It’s just running on the endless treadmill of disasters, action items, and obligations.
I’ve been there myself, and pledged not to do it again. I don’t want to die from a heart attack.
Continue reading Space: the First Frontier
 I was on a great discussion hosted by Kim Clausen today which got me thinking about how one develops relationships over time.
We all recognize the stereotype of the desperate date – the one who’s so clingy and pushy that you look for any way out of a relationship.
Business relationships are like that too. Continue reading Be patient building the relationship!
 Most organizations put together something like a vision, mission, and long term goals. That’s all well and good, but here’s the truth:
The only people who are grabbed by that kind of stuff are those who worked to create it.
Continue reading What’s your story?
 I subscribe to a number of discussion forums and newsletters so I can keep in touch with and contribute to the state of the industry.
The LinkedIn group Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group) has a lively discussion underway this week, exploring the question: Is employee satisfaction impossible?
Continue reading Is employee satisfaction impossible?
 I saw a conversation recently which reminded me of an important concept: Information hoarding. Let me clarify that hoarding is when you’re trying to keep something secret specifically because you want to put someone else at a disadvantage.
Why should we care?
Continue reading Information hoarding
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