Tag Archives: employee engagement
CommScrum: Time to Say Good Night to “Employee Engagement”?
This week, I join my three collaborators from CommScrum in a robust discussion about the viability of “employee engagement”. The discussion starts like this: To be sure, the intentions behind the “employee engagement” movement of recent years were more-or-less honorable, … Continue reading
Is More “Top-Down Inspiration” Really the Answer for Organizational Recovery?
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the answer for reviving organizations is a more-of-the-same focus on “employee engagement” and “top-down inspirational leadership” is the purpose of this piece, written as a reply to industry association IABC’s recent introduction to its Communication … Continue reading
Enterprise Re-Engagement: Will Corporates Get It?
Whether corporations can join together their collective thinking about stakeholder engagement—or whether the current thinking of employee engagement as a sort of free lunch for employers ends up prevailing—is likely to have a decisive impact in the next few years. Continue reading
Praise from David Zinger, Employee Engagement Network Leader
My efforts to raise the debate on employee engagement issues was commended today by David Zinger, who heads up the 2000-member global Employee Engagement Network: “I continue to appreciate your thinking and writing on the various facets of engagement and … Continue reading
From “Employee Engagement” to “Enterprise Re-Engagement”
Enterprise Re-Engagement challenges organizations to pursue a meaningful, two-way approach to engagement that openly acknowledges changes in organizations’ economic and employment environments, targets approaches that are appropriate to the growing number of contingent workers as well as to ‘permanent’ employees, and seeks to stimulate creative friction and innovation as well as satisfaction and loyalty. Continue reading
CommScrum Rugby-Tackles “Internal Communication”
Challenging the very viability of what’s currently known as “internal communication” was the focus of my recent posting to CommScrum—a cooperative blog dedicated to “Full Contact Internal Comms.” The Commscrummers: UK-based Dan Gray and Kevin Keohane, Netherlands-based Lindsay Uittenbogaard, and … Continue reading
Questioning Employee Engagement–Some Things to Think About
Building on my “four forms of employee engagement” model, I’ve published another piece that again challenges the conventional wisdom about employee engagement, while providing some practical questions for practitioners to consider before considering engagement efforts in the current climate. This … Continue reading
“Four Forms” of Engagement Model Published by Leading Employee Engagement Personality
My innovative “Four Forms” model of Employee Engagement, which identified four distinct types of employee-employer relationship: The engagement of the “rifle”—battle: active opposition The engagement of the “mat”—wrestling: active disagreement, but within a productive context The engagement of the “gearshift”-mechanical: … Continue reading
