Employee Engagement Advice: too much emphasis on ‘hygiene factors’
Almost every article offering employee engagement advice for organisations seems to focus on a range of similar actions an organisation needs to carry out to engage employees. Almost without fail, these actions emphasise the need to incentivise employees to become...
A New Employee Engagement Narrative
Over the past few weeks, I have been involved in some very interesting discussions with people from both business and academia. We discussed the positioning of leadership and employee engagement, and where employee empowerment fits into this equation. Basically, we...
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Leadership Development: the key to empowering your employees
Are we looking at employee engagement the wrong way? In their efforts to help employees become more engaged with their workplace, many senior teams tend to run large scale engagement building activities. By putting these type of generic events first, they are...
Indicators Your Employees Do Not Feel Empowered & Causal Factors
So many organisations say they do employee engagement. They have that box ticked because they ran a survey within the past 18 months and, sure, they do employee engagement events like beer and pizza, Corporate Social Responsibility and other such activities. Yet,...
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Developing Future Leaders
Talent management is the key ‘front of mind’ topic for practically every senior management team and every HR team in almost every organisation. Everybody desperately wants to identify and develop future leaders to ensure the long-term success of their organisation. ...
Re-engage With Your Job: 5 tips
What does it take to re-engage with your job? What does it take to re-engage with your employer? Most organisations struggle with this challenge. They roll out various engagement strategies every year with limited impact on engagement levels. A quick look at the...
Leading Empowered Employees (Part 2): breaking the leader-follower mindset
In my previous article, I outlined some practical steps to reviewing how you lead your team. I also looked at how your leadership style can feed into, or even create, the leader-follower mindset. This is an unproductive place for your team to be because they will...
Leading Empowered Employees: a practical approach (part 1)
Leading empowered employees is the stuff of nightmares for many managers. Many focus on how empowered employees can be ‘managed’ or ‘controlled’. Fear seems to rise from the prospect of not getting the tasks completed because of uncontrollable innovation and team...