Tag: engagement
Employee Empowerment demystified Part II
Most empowerment programs aren’t empowerment at all if a manager gives up some authority only he can give. So let’s start the other way around: Reverse delegation assumes an employees can take any decision except for what he doesn’t feel like and what has been set as constraints. So how do we do this?
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Turn the ship around! David Marquet
Turn the ship around! is the amazing and inspiring true story of nuclear submarine commander David Marquet and his crew’s journey to completely turn around the style of leadership on board of the Sante Fe. The change is from what he calls a leader-follower model to a leader-leader model.
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Do you really need a Chief Happiness Officer?
A quick search on LinkedIn on ‘chief happiness’ led to over 16.000 results. It seems...
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Employee engagement in The Netherlands is one of the lowest in the world!
We shared some overall numbers on employee engagement already in part I and II of this series. But Gallup’s study was much more detailed. For example, I was surprised to find that engagement in The Netherlands was actually one of the lowest in Europe. My liberal happy little country? What gives?
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Shifting gears on employee engagement
Over two-thirds of employees worldwide are not engaged. In part II of this article about employee engagement we are going deep to discover practices you as a manager can use to build an environment that drives engagement and get better overall results. Expect practical advice, but backed up by science.
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The state of employee engagement
A shockingly low number of employees worldwide are truly engaged. What does this mean? What are the consequences and costs for our organizations of disengagement? Learn what engagement actually is. Learn the surprising difference between engagement and compliance. And why HR programs usually don’t work.
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The truth about employee engagement, Patrick Lencioni
‘The truth about employee engagement’ is a fable on the causes and cures of job misery based on a foundation of three root causes: anonymity, irrelevance, and immeasurement. Lencioni guides us through the story of a retired CEO who struggles to translate the for him obvious ways to treat people into a usable model that allows him to replicate his way of working to any company.
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Drive, Daniel H. Pink
Dank Pink’s bestseller Drive is as inspiring as it it is revealing. The book clearly demonstrates how extrinsic motivation of employees does not work the way most people still expect it works.
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part I
It’s not that traditional management techniques are wrong per se, but they are no longer the most appropriate way to face today’s complexity. So organizations are struggling to implement alternative ways of managing like employee empowerment. This article provides simple yet powerful tools you can use today.
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Even the way we manage change is changing…
Despite all the knowledge and expertise about change management it seems to be a painful process all the time. Yet, change we must, especially in these times of increasing complexity and uncertainty. What are the flaws of current change methods? What is a better way, better suited for complexity?
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