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Leader to Leader
with Terry Siebert
05/06/13Three keys to keeping your employees engagedLate last year, our Dale Carnegie corporate office commissioned a study on employee engagement in the workplace. Conducted by MSW research, the study focused on 1,500 employees aged 18 to 61 across all business sectors. Employee engagement is defined as the emotional and intellectual commitment of employees to deliver high performance. What the research found is that there are three primary drivers of employee engagement. Posted at 11:59 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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03/25/13Six strategic questions to improve your businessThere is no doubt that things just aren’t the same as they used to be. The entire structure of business has been changing worldwide for some time now. As a result, businesspeople have found ways to survive, be frugal, stay together, and hang in there, and they’re reluctant to aggressively address strategic and big-picture questions. |
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02/18/13That vision thingThe vision statement. Most organizations today seem to have one. The question is, do they really have a vision of who they aspire to be? I recently sat down with the CEO of an area company and I asked him about his vision for his organization. He started looking for the company vision statement in the most recent strategic planning document. I interrupted and said there was no need to do this and get the exact words. I was just interested in his vision for the company. He insisted on looking for the documentation. |
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01/21/13Relationships vital to success of families and workplacesIn one of our training programs, we do an exercise where we ask participants to narrow down their deepest core values to two, after starting out with a list of more than two dozen. It may or may not surprise you that “family” is the most frequently chosen value. It is certainly at the top of my list. |
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12/14/12Harnessing the power of ideasTo move forward you need good ideas. Good ideas are found – they won’t come to you, and it all starts with your thinking. Albert Einstein said, “Thinking is hard work. That is why so few do it.” |
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