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How Leaders Increase Engagement

How Many of Your Employees Are Fully Engaged?

About 27% of the workforce is the answer for most organizations. That’s right, only 27% of employees are fully engaged at work according to research studies by the Gallup Organization. The remaining 73% are between somewhere between “not fully engaged” and “dead men working.”

Engagement is . . . → Read More: How Leaders Increase Engagement

Leadership Tools to Retain Employees

A friend told me that she was very disappointed that her employer was giving her less than a 1% raise this year, despite the fact that she is the best worker on the team (as determined her manager’s objective measures). Her manager apologized, but said that she had been hired near the high end . . . → Read More: Leadership Tools to Retain Employees

Do Leaders Tell or Sell Their Story?

The audience of 500 senior leaders and middle managers listened as the CEO outlined the major change initiative. His grasp of the facts and details was amazing. But after 15 minutes of data, the audience drifted. The CEO lost them because he didn’t realize that to reach the mind one must go through . . . → Read More: Do Leaders Tell or Sell Their Story?

How Employees Judge Your Change Process

Research tells us that if employees don’t buy into the process of change they won’t buy into the desired outcome of the change. (1) Is it any surprise therefore, that a survey of 5,100 global business leaders by the American Management Association found that most change initiatives fail because the leaders fail to . . . → Read More: How Employees Judge Your Change Process

Inspire Any Change by Changing Your Focus

Don’t think of a red apple. Don’t think of a red apple. What just popped into mind? You probably thought of a red apple, right? Why? Because the brain cannot work on the reverse of an idea. Neuroscientists tell us that we move in the direction of the dominant images that we place . . . → Read More: Inspire Any Change by Changing Your Focus