I just finished a keynote, The 10 Steps of Employee Engagement, in Kiev, Ukraine at their Employer Branding and Engagement Forum. What a fascinating experience. Ukraine is a former communist country, still struggling to embrace capitalism as they continue towards their goal of being a ‘developed’ country. I found the Ukrainians to be warm, inviting,… [Read More]
Employee Engagement Blog
Don’t Slam Who You Work For in A Video and Don’t Pull a Biebs: 2 Lessons for Millennials
1.) Don’t Trash Talk Your Organization: Whether it is the New York Jets, or the teen star from 2 1/2 Men, Angus T. Jones-do not do this. Complain to a friend, spouse, family member, partner-anyone else but the public (or if anyone reports to you). If you are really miserable-look for another opportunity. Move on…. [Read More]
What Not To Do: New York Jets Trash Talk Tebow
As I was driving home recently, I was wondering what to blog about. There is the obvious: EEG just made its first office move. I was going with that, until my favorite, local, sports station talked about the New York Jets ripping Tim Tebow apart. That’s right-they were trash talking their own player. Interesting. I researched this… [Read More]
Creativeship: Lessons for Evolving Leaders
How Can Leaders Build Sustainable Cultures and Business Models? In my book, Creativeship, I tell the story of retiring management consultant Joe Daniels who is anxious. Driving to his retirement party with his purpose-driven daughter Heather, who represents millions of her millennial peers, sets Joe off on a series of epiphanies, flashbacks, conversations, and revelations. He… [Read More]
Gentle Giants (Moving Company) are Engaged, Motivated, and Always Go the Extra Mile
Its refreshing when we learn about a company that is high performing, focuses on the importance of engagement and culture while striving to deliver the highest degree of customer care. Gentle Giant Moving Company is one of those organizations. You probably didn’t think I was going to say a moving company. I know first hand how hard… [Read More]
You Don’t Have to be Steve Jobs to Innovate (although it would be cool)
At EEG, we challenge ourselves to innovate. When our Founder, Bob Kelleher, started to challenge us about innovating, I thought, I am not creative enough to invent the next iPod. It’s easy to say, that’s not my strength. OK-so I may not be Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg innovative-however, I have been challenging myself to think more innovatively. … [Read More]
It’s Really Cool to Do What You Love
We all have epiphanies in our work life. For me, it was a few moments during my software days. Even though I worked for stellar companies, seeing some basic management mistakes and truly wanting to help invoke change and awareness about the importance of culture and accountability. One quarter end, after hours of legal teams fighting… [Read More]
Creativeship YouTube Video: Who is Joe Daniels?
Creativeship, A Novel for Evolving Leaders is the journey of recently retired fictitious main character Joe Daniels. En-route to his retirement party, accompanied by his Generation Y daughter, Heather, Joe has an epiphany that his long held definition of “Leadership” won’t work in the new economy. His retirement party triggers a series of career flashbacks,… [Read More]
Employee Engagement, Boston Red Sox and John Farrell
Big News in Beantown…The Boston Red Sox hired John Farrell to be their new manager to replace Bobby Valentine. EEG is a global company but we are based out of Boston, so we are all die-hard, Boston sports fan. Watching the Red Sox train wreck has been fascinating from an engagement perspective for the following reasons:… [Read More]
Are You Our Boston based, Gen Y, Future Videographer?
The Employee Engagement Group (EEG) wants and needs a Boston, Gen Y/Millennial to help us create and produce slick, cool videos for our Web site. Does this sound like you? Motivated & High Performing Committed and passionate about your work and helping others? Creative, Innovative, Fun, Forward Thinking, Love all things Social Media, Videos, & Branding… [Read More]