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Happy Spring (or Happy Fall for our Southern Hemisphere friends)! Here at The Employee Engagement Group, 2017 has seen us engaging across the globe – from Spain to Mexico, California to New York to New Orleans! Engaging Audiences from Board Rooms to Conference Halls We have presented keynote talks for corporate clients at Canon, ECI, and Lockheed Martin, amongst many… [Read More]
Key Factors for Building Engagement Part of what makes being a manager difficult is that at any given time, employees are all operating at different levels of personal and professional engagement. Experienced managers of people have learned over time that to impact an overall team or organization’s performance, they need to move the collective team… [Read More]
5 Simple Ways to be a More Engaging Leader When it comes to employee engagement, leaders must accept and embrace the concept in order for the organization to succeed. It’s all too common that an organization is working towards increased engagement, but isn’t backed by a supporting leadership team, which ultimately leads to little or… [Read More]
Shaping my Engagement As you might imagine, my engagement experiences revolve around someone who inspired others to lead and follow. I’d like to highlight three leaders who shaped my engagement. All three of these leaders had traits in common that I’ve learned and practiced throughout my professional career – they: Set reasonable but challenging expectations Provided… [Read More]
As Background… Market Basket is a large regional supermarket chain in the New England area consisting of over 25,000 employees at 71 locations. Originally called DeMoulas, it started out as a small “mom and pop” grocery store by Greek immigrants in 1916 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The store was sold to two DeMoulas sons, Mike and… [Read More]
My Leader Crushes: Herb Brooks and Claude Julien. Liam Hemsworth, Bradley Cooper-they don’t do it for me. Hottie actors-yes but they are not my “leader crushes”. About 2 years ago, our company created a multi-media presentation of the 1980 US Olympic Men’s ice hockey team gold medal (featured in the movie Miracle) to the theme of… [Read More]
Wes Welker-a beloved, respected, New England Patriot is now a Denver Bronco. What does this have to do with employee engagement? A lot is the short answer. Let me explain: What happened? Some decisions truly match the Patriots culture-accountability, financial responsibility and making the best decisions (they feel) for the future and sustainability. Let’s look at this… [Read More]
Something on PBS is cool? This isn’t a typo. It’s PBS-not CBS or NBC. What is making me turn on PBS, besides my niece’s unhealthy obsession with Elmo? Downton Abbey. Re-acquaint yourself with PBS-it’s still channel 2. While I make no secret I love entertainment news-you might be wondering where I am going with this…. [Read More]
Sadly, most of us, whether we are football fans or not know the sad story of KC Chiefs player, Jovan Belcher. After killing his girlfriend and himself, the KC Chiefs were left stunned, saddened and still processing the events. What I found remarkable about this tragedy was the KC quarterback, Brady Quinn’s comments: “I know… [Read More]
HBR Review, June 2012, Boris Groysberg & Michael Slind, page 76 “Traditional corporate communication must give way to a process that is more dynamic and more sophisticated. Most important, that process must be conversational.” Groysberg & Slind found that through globalization, the emergence of social media and technology limit our face-face interactions with coworkers. By… [Read More]
