Comments on: 5 Tips for Inspiring and Engaging Employees

By: Odilia

Odilia — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:22:46 +0000

Odilia…

As soon as you accept the idea that you are in control of your thoughts you will be able to create your own happiness….

By: admin

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:21 +0000

Gabiele,

Thanks for contributing. You are correct that a fundamental link has to be created that ties strategy, planning, engagement, measurement and results together. The process to do that is really the topic of our book Big Ideas to Big Results that will be published in Feb 2008. However, there has been so much feedback on this point, I’ll also make it the topic of my next post. Please stay tuned it may take a week or so to get the next post written. Feel free to RSS link or subscribe so you’ll know when the next post is up. Thanks! Mike

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:44:19 +0000

We all agree about engagement, but..
..how do you “make it happen”..
..which could be the (fondamental) concrete link between people-engagement-measurement and results (i.e.MBO)…
…how could we engage our middle managers on people-engagement?

Thanks.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:54:58 +0000

Harsh,

We shouldn’t confuse entertainment with engagement. A lot of leaders want their employees to like being at work so they try to have a lot of fun activities that are distractions from the real work at hand. As a best practice we’ve found that giving people a chance to have a meaningful conversations about the business direction, input on how to do things better, and having an impact on the business is motivating and fun for people.

Another element for engaging employees is having a meaningful purpose or cause behind the business - not just shooting after numerical targets. If employees believe that the business is on a good cause that matches with their talents and they feel they are a meaningful player on the team - they will feel engaged.

Best,

Mike

By: Harsh Sharma

Harsh Sharma — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:22:29 +0000

Hi Michael
Interesting,though not ‘employee engagement’ activities in the conventional sense.Can you share some ‘best practices’ in employee engagement activities,besides the ususl things like suggestion schemes,celebrations(events/fastivals/b’days etc),open house meets,hobby clubs……etc ?

Cheers
Harsh

By: Koichi Naruishi

Koichi Naruishi — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:09:37 +0000

Wow Mike!

Thank you so much. I am blessed to have staff that are committed to our clients healing transformation and wellness. We also had the opportunity to produce a mission statement together.

However, I have not been fully conscious of using tips #3 and #4 for the other parts of my operations. Will be more conscious of using your tips… this afternoon!

Thank you so much.

Koichi