Archive for employee engagement

WEBINAR: The Power of Small Moments: Inspiring Leadership Through Everyday Interactions

Leadership is often shaped in small, seemingly insignificant moments. Join us Tuesday, April 28th, for this live conversation where Tricia Naddaff, President of MRG, will speak with Feena May, PhD, author of The Power of a Lollipop: A Model for Inspiring Leadership and CEO of The Inspiring Company….

Webinar Wrap-up: Engaging Employees from a Distance

The term “employee engagement” made its first appearance in an academic journal in 1990. Since then, the concept has evolved and transformed; while some organizations take it as a serious imperative, for others, it’s become a loose catchall term for anything from a fitness center to a foosball…

People Management: Demystifying a Complicated Recipe

I think it’s fair to say, that in relative terms, people management is having a moment. Heck, even Silicon Valley is taking notice. It’s quite common to hear the phrase, “war for talent” inside of today’s organizations. An offshoot of this “war” is that once an organization feels…

Webinar Wrap-Up: Coaching for Compassion

Compassion is empathy in action. And as an avid news reader and social media user, I’m struck on a daily basis by the fear that we are living in a world where compassion can be conspicuously absent. At the highest levels of leadership – at least from what…

Has Employee Engagement Gone off the Rails?

You know the idiom, “a camel is a horse designed by a committee”? This is how I feel about employee engagement in its current form; almost like it has become Frankenstein’s weirder sibling. I should note that I was fascinated by employee engagement in graduate school; yet I’m…