Category Archives: E Pluribus Partners

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Teaching Connection at GE








Today I taught about Connection Cultures and employee engagement to leaders at GE’s famed Crotonville Leadership Training Center. In the coming weeks I’ll be working with GE to add material from Fired Up or Burned Out to one of GE’s leadership courses.  The Connection Culture will help GE attain its desire to be inclusive.  And I’m fired up about helping this great organization become even better. 

GE is a company I’ve always admired.  Previously I’ve written about Jeff Immelt, GE’s CEO, and how he has made inclusiveness one of GE’s values.  More recently, I wrote in a post entitled “Warren Buffett: More Than an Oracle,” that Buffett made a multibillion dollar investment in GE.  Although the current economic conditions are challenging, like Buffett, I believe GE’s future is bright.

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Joining Marshall Goldsmith, others as expert on Success Television

Last week I joined Marshall Goldsmith and others as one of Success Television’s experts on leadership and employee engagement. Former CNN executive Helen Whelan, Success Television’s founder and CEO, is developing an excellent platform to provide corporate training via online, dvds and videos. Success Television’s website is currently featuring an article I wrote about Truth, Beauty and Goodness in Leadership. You can learn more about it by clicking on Success Television.

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Webcast: John Timmerman, Corp. VP Operations, Ritz-Carlton

John Timmerman, Corporate Vice President of Operations at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. (click here for his bio) was my guest on a recent webcast on Brighttalk.com’s Leadership and Employee Engagement Channel.  You can see the webcast by clicking on employee engagement.

During the webcast John identifies a variety of Ritz-Carlton practices that hep make it a Connection Culture including:

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Presentation to Wharton and Harvard Business School Clubs of D.C.

Last week I spoke at a breakfast meeting of Wharton and Harvard Business School Clubs of D.C.  It was such an engaging group of individuals that included entrepreneurs, leaders of government agencies, and leaders from the social sector.  I would like to thank them for their enthusiastic response to my presentation.  

During the presentation I spoke about the leadership style of or Retired Admiral Vern Clark, the former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) who served as CNO from 2000-2005.  Retired Rear Admiral Rose Levitre, who presently works for LMI (an intelligence consulting organization) and Rear Admiral Frank Thorp, the current Chief of Information for the Navy, stood up before the group and shared their experiences working for Admiral Clark.  Thank you Rose and Frank for inspiring us with your stories.  

Finally, I would like to thank the Wharton Alumni Club of D.C.’s president, Alan Schlaifer, for doing a first class job of organizing this event and Anthony Priest, chairman of the Harvard Business School Club of D.C., for promoting it.

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Center for Creative Leadership

Last week I taught a symposium at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was invited to speak by Bill Adams, the Senior Enterprise Associate – Government at CCL. It was an honor to share my work on Connection Cultures, leadership and employee engagement with CCL’s many outstanding leaders and faculty members. CCL is recognized as one of the top centers of expertise on leadership in the world. They are doing such important work and I hope to collaborate more with them in the future. Check out CCL’s website here.

Photo: Flickr by MarcFest

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Employee Engagement During Difficult Times

Here’s another article I’m working on. If you have any suggestions, please email me at mstallard@epluribuspartners.com.

During difficult times it’s natural for anxious individuals to retreat into isolation, a state that nearly always results in diminished productivity. When it comes to the amount of effort employees put in their work, research by the Corporate Leadership Council has shown that emotional connections are on average four times as important as rational factors.  Emotional connections arise when employees feel: 1) proud of their organization’s mission, values and reputation, 2) valued by their supervisor and colleagues, and 3) informed and that their opinions and ideas about matters that are important to them are considered by decision-makers before decisions are made. 

Recently I visited an impressive organization that is poised to continue performing well even through the challenging economic environment we are presently facing.

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New York-Presbyterian Recognized for Employee Engagement











Congratulations to New York-Presbyterian Hospital for being recognized as the top academic medical center in terms of employee engagement. I wrote an article about New York-Presbyterian entitled “Strengthening Human Value in Organizational Cultures” that appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Leader to Leader. You can read about it in a blog post of mine entitled “Amazing Things are Happening Here.”

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New Video Clips on Relationship Excellence, Criticism, Difficult Times and Imbalance

Athenaonline.com sent me links to several video clips I filmed for its MyQuickCoach product that was voted one of Human Resource Executive magazine’s top training products of the year. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Relationship Excellence and Performance

Praise and Criticism

Engaging Employees in Difficult Times

Leadership and Imbalance

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Free E-book on Connection Culture and Employee Engagement

Today, Athenaonline.com sent out an email newsletter to its clients to make them aware of the recent training videos I filmed for its MyQuickCoach program. In the email AthenaOnline included this video clip of me discussing the importance of Connection Cultures.

Athenaonline was voted one of Human Resource Executive magazines top new training products. It includes thought leaders such as Marshall Goldsmith, Ram Charan and David Allen on topics like leadership training and development, employee engagement, team building and time mangement .

For the AthenaOnline clients who are clicking through to check out my blog, I want to make you aware of the free, downloadable eBook I wrote that was published by Changethis.com. You can download it by clicking on employee engagement.