blog of engagement

Owning the Whole Before Your Piece – Part 2

Owning the whole creates a significant difference between organizations successfully executing on strategies and those struggling to realize the intended results.

Leveraging Learning Cycles to Nurture Leadership

The cycle of briefing, executing, and debriefing is important to football teams, the military, and to your business. These learning cycles are key for employee growth.

Giving Is Personal

People want to give to help create joy, to make a difference, and to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

Can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Corporate Training Programs

There is a fundamental flaw in the traditional mindset of “getting people to training” and a “learning process".

Managers matter the most when it comes to engagement!

When allocating training dollars, don’t overlook your managers’ and supervisors’ needs. If they aren’t excellent people-leaders, what are the consequences for your employees? Here’s why you need to focus one step up from the frontline.

How Successful Strategies Win: Strategic Change as an Interdependent Process

Organizations that “win” have some unwavering principles that guide the way they lead the strategic change process.

From 1776 to 2011: Good Strategies Never Go Out of Date

I’ve always admired George, and I’m continually impressed by the forward-thinking leadership tenets he demonstrated to first his troops and then to his new country.

The “Manager of the Future” – the Future is Now

What does “success” mean to your employees?  The answer may surprise you!

What is “World-Class Customer Service?”

These days it seems like everyone wants to be the Four Seasons or the Apple of their industry. With less demand and fewer potential customers in the marketplace, attracting and retaining customers is more important than ever.

Shifting a Leader’s Focus from In the Business to On the Business

Are you in the trenches working on the day-to-day or above visualizing the future? If you are in the trenches, who's creating the future?

Good Morning, Management Family!

Getting an employee engaged and excited about his work is a lot like being a construction worker on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Both will want to make sure they did everything in their power to achieve the best result for the 'client'.