Tag: Employee engagement

Leadership

Shifting From Human Resources to Human Beings

Premise Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report found that globally, employee engagement fell from 23% to 21% in 2024, matching the size of the drop seen at the height of COVID lockdowns. This level of drop has only happened twice in the last 15 years. Even a single percentage point increase in engagement can lead to millions of dollars in productivity gain. This made me think about the reasons for this drop and I believe that the answer is hiding in plain sight. It lives in two words. Two words that have become so deeply embedded in the vocabulary […]

Leadership, Podcast

A Practical Guide to Building an Engaged Team

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/Here_is_how_to_build_an_engaged_team.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSTeams that are engaged perform better, collaborate more, and stay longer. I often talk about how employee engagement sits at the heart of every high-performing team. The real question is: how do leaders actually build it in day-to-day work? Hire for Attitude Before Skills Engagement starts much earlier than most people realise — right at the hiring stage. I believe that while skills can be developed over time, attitude is much harder to change. Hiring people who naturally align with the team’s values and energy creates a stronger foundation for engagement. […]

Leadership

Instead of Firing Employees, It is time to Love them!

For a lot of people around the world, today is a day that marks the celebration of love and lovers. The origin of the festivities are not clear though. You can find a lot more about the potential origin story of the day here or here. There has been a lot of people being let go from their jobs in the last few months. On top of that, given the current socio-political-economic situation that we are living in, I would not let any opportunity to celebrate go by. So, the question I want to ask or explore today is the […]

Leadership

The Four T’s of Empowerment

I recently read about Mike Shipulski’s post with a similar title (The Three T’s of Empowerment) made me think about empowerment in general. You can read his post here. In the post, the three T’s that he talks about is Time, Training and Tools. Time for our people to learn the tools and provide the necessary training so that they can really feel empowered and deliver on our expectations. Mike shares what happens when we miss any of these three in his post really well. I really recommend that you read his post. In my opinion, apart from these three […]

Strategy, transformation

6 Levels of Commitment to Change

Premise: Every change or a transformation effort needs the support and commitment of people who will either be affected by the change or who lead the change or who could influence the success of the change effort. Hence, it is important for those who want to drive or lead the change effort learn how committed they are to the change. The commitment can vary from people wanting to outright sabotage the change on one extreme to co-creating or co-owning the change on the other end of the spectrum. Along the spectrum, there are 6 levels or stages of commitment that […]