When we recognize and understand the purpose that drives each of our team members, and we’ve been able to determine how they’re most interested in working to achieve, the work we can do as leaders to help them in that process can become as rewarding as nearly anything else we do! I...

In addressing this profitability killer, we’ve worked through the real costs of disengaged employees, we’ve looked at how effective leadership can drive (read: earn) an increased level of engagement, and we just covered three relatively simple (but not necessarily quick or easy)...

When I mention making sure our team members can measure their performance, have a clear understanding of its relevance, and know their significance in the process, it doesn’t sound all that hard - and it’s not! But don’t mistake this simplicity for something that requires no...

With an understanding of how impactful this profitability killer really is to our organizations, it’s time we look at the specific steps we can take as leaders to drive employee engagement and eliminate the costs of a disengaged workforce! Make no mistake here, the improvement in...

I wrapped up last time by mentioning that we’d soon work through some “simple things” that we can each do to EARN engagement from the teams we’re leading, and more specifically, some actual steps we can take to put those things into practice. Here’s the thing: just...

Think back to the comment I referenced a few times previously about this so-called “fuzzy initiative driven by someone in human resources that never yields tangible results”... The fellow who made that comment went on to explain that this was because “most CEOs continue to sit...