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.”
Jim Blasingame and I discuss employee engagement on his radio program
Last Friday I was a guest on my friend Jim Blasingame’s nationally-syndicated radio program entitled “The Small Business Advocate.” In the interview Jim and I talked about employee engagement and why leaders need to clearly communicate their vision and values to the people they are responsible for leading. This is especially important during difficult economic times. You can hear the interview by clicking on the “listen now” below.
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
Speaking at Wharton and Harvard Business School Clubs in D.C.
I’ll be speaking about Connection Cultures at a joint meeting of the Wharton and Harvard Business School Clubs of Washington, D.C. The meeting will be held at 7:30 AM on February 5 in Tysons Corner, Virginia. For details click here.
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.
Sad for Siemens’ Employees
Last week Siemens paid a $1.6 billion fine for its bribery violations. The New York Times’ writers Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller wrote an excellent article about it entitled “At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item.”
Corporate identity is a source of pride in the best organizations. It is a factor that contributes to connection and employee engagement. When a company’s identity is tarnished like Siemens has been, it rubs off on employees’ identities too. Siemens’ leaders can recover provided they develop a culture that places a high value on integrity, honesty and justice. If they do, it will improve employee and customer engagement. If they fail to do this, I would not be very optimistic about Siemens’ future.
Employee Engagement Connects with Ritz Carlton’s Culture
I wrote about the Ritz Carlton’s Connection Culture in Fired Up or Burned Out. Here’s a great article from Gallup about it entitled “What’s behind the Ritz-Carlton Mystique?“
How to energize your organization
I just discovered a fascinating article that appeared in the Sloan Management Review about how individuals increase energy in organizations. Several of the practices are germane to employee engagement and Connection Culture Theory. Here’s a copy of the article what-creates-energy-in-organizations
Note: The free download of this article was available on co-author Professor Wayne Baker’s website at the University of Michigan.
Why “Fired Up or Burned Out” is an important book for our times
When I was recently in California filming SmartByte training video clips for Athenaonline.com, they had me talk about why Fired Up or Burned Out is a book for our times. Here’s the clip below.
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Webcasts with Traci Fenton, Kevin Eikenberry, Some Great Articles and a Special Offer to Boot!
Recently I hosted webcasts with Traci Fenton, founder/CEO+designer at WorldBlu, and Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group. You can see the webcasts on BrightTalk’s Leadership and Employee Engagement Channel. In the webcast with Traci, you’ll learn about organizational democracy and in Kevin’s webcast you’ll learn about how “Remarkable Leaders” create connection. I have tremendous respect for Traci and her work. Kevin, as you may know, is the author of an excellent book I reviewed entitled Remarkable Leaders. He is a first class thinker about leadership. I know you’ll enjoy both of these webcasts.
After some encouragement from Traci, I finally joined Twitter. Now I’m following both Traci and Kevin’s “tweets” (Twitter lingo for brief posts). When I read Traci’s tweets I learned about two great articles. One was written by Parker Palmer about creating movements rather than organizations and the other was a Fast Company piece about Cisco’s evolving culture of connection. I hope you’ll check them out.
I want to mention Kevin Eikenberry’s free teleseminar for individuals who want to improve their personal and/or professional lives. The seminar is entitled “Make the Next 12 Months the Best 12 Months.” It is offered at two times this Thursday December 18.
Finally, early next year I have some great webcasts in the works including with Tim Sanders, author of Saving the World at Work, and Kim Ruvolo, manager of Jet Blue’s brand. as soon as dates are confirmed I’ll post them on my blog and on my new twitter page.