If you’re a manager or supervisor, you can easily dis-un-empower yourself and the people you work with and easily gain new perspectives and successful outcomes for dealing with perceived workplace roadblocks — those things that hinder our production or completion of jobs/tasks. Our Managing Workplace Roadblocks Toolkit is designed around an easily communicated Roadblocks Management Model […]
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Dis-Un-Engagement is the process of removing those things that un-engage people and teams in workplace performance and motivation.
An email from Mercer/Sirota today was headlined, “Employee Engagement is so over! Ok, maybe not quite” and I was somewhat thrilled by that statement and the recognition of a new reality. I say this because for so many managers, the term “employee engagement” really translated into, “doing a survey and then having to do something […]
It is funny, if you google the word DISRUPTIVE, most of the associated descriptive links will be on negative things and that the main positive framework is the link to Disruptive Innovation, where it spins around to be The Good Thing. When I use the term, “Disruptive Engagement,” many people’s’ first reactions seem to be […]
These days, my focus continues to be on people and performance, with more consideration around The Supervisor and their work to dis-un-engage and actively involve their people in workplace improvements. I blogged last week about the concept of Free The Supervisor. If we want to improve engagement, the only people who will do this are […]
Free The Supervisor might be my new chant as I continue to research and discuss and consider the reality of most workplaces. In a simple phrase, “They Get Pressed.” Remember – The ONLY people who actually produce any income for an organization are the workers. All of the management function as overhead costs. And who […]
The idea behind this post is to outline a process to actively involve and engage a group of senior managers in the effort to elicit, share, discuss and ideally implement some of their best business practices. We had the chance to involve 8 different companies operating under one parent organization with the goal of improving […]
What is your reaction to these statements? “I’m from Human Resources and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Management and I am here to help you.” “I’m from Training and I am here to help you.” Most of us workers can probably name names and share lots of personal experiences about having received […]
I was shocked and amazed to see, after we have spent billions of dollars on surveys and assessments and trainings of various kinds, that workplace engagement continues to be an issue and that only about a third of people seem to care about their workplaces. It is amazing because there are thousands of books on […]
I was reading some news feeds and came across the word, “Presenteeism” in an HR thread. The term was new to me, but since I was gathering some notes around the theme of involvement and engagement, it resonated. The common use is seemingly around working while sick and is seen as the opposite and related […]