Want Employee “Engagement”? Start With Hassle Hunting, A Value Added Process Contrary to what many executives think, the information essential to improved productivity and efficiency does not reside in the executive suite, but in the minds of the people who actually do the work and interact with the customers. The theme of this is simple….
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Is there a core set of leadership skills that are essential or mandatory for leadership success?
Do Leaders Have To Have A Specific Core Set Of Skills To Be Successful? It’s a Yes, and a No If you read books about leadership, or listen to leadership experts, you may come away with the idea that there are core, mandatory skills and behaviors essential to leading effectively. That’s accurate, up to a…
Leadership Credibility – Why is it SO Important
Importance Of Credibility For Leadership Success First, if there is one defining characteristic of leaders who are effective over long periods of time, it’s that they behave in ways that cause people to see them as credible. That means that they are believed, and trusted, both in the specifics of what they say, and generally,…
Companies NEED To Stop Measuring Employee Engagement With Surveys
When Measuring Employee Engagement Lowers It You’ve probably heard the phrase “What gets measured gets done” applied to the the workplace, and if you are like many people, you have a belief that using metrics to gauge progress towards any goal is important, or even necessary. There’s nothing wrong with the principle in general terms,…
Successful Businesses Engender Higher Employee Engagement Scores, Not The Other Way Around
Business Metrics And Employee Engagement: We Have It Backwards In the previous article we explained that employee engagement might cause better business results, but that one alternate explanation of the research findings is that BOTH are affected by another cause, and in fact, have no causal relationship between them. The Third Interpretation of The EE/Business Results…
Diverting Scarce Resources To Employee Engagement A Huge Mistake For Companies
Darkside Of Employee Engagement Since companies have completely failed to improve employee engagement scores over ten+ years of trying, we need to consider whether continuing to divert scarce organizational resources in an attempt to increase employee engagement with the hope of creating better business results, is in fact, damaging to companies, and their employees. Scarce…