“Now Hiring” signs are everywhere. It’s one more repercussion of the pandemic that is worrying almost every business. How can they possibly keep the employees they have … or get their employees to come back to work … or attract new hires? If you are an employer, you know that it is harder than ever to retain and motivate employees. Indeed, …
Why Employee Engagement Doesn’t Work
If it wasn’t so funny, I’d probably cry. For some time now, employee engagement has been the rage … the “in” topic, the flavor-of-the-month training program and the approach that’s going to save us all from ruin, destruction, and the competition. And to make matters worse, many organizations take the Nike approach to employee engagement. In other words, they tell …
Employee Involvement: The Key To Mission Buy-In
I’ve come across way too many organizations who are either unwilling or unable to involve their people when it comes to setting up the important stuff … like the creation of a mission statement. Oh sure, leaders may communicate what their mission and their strategy is … but that doesn’t mean that the employees have any emotional connection to the …