Check out my new article in IndustryWeek about the Connection Culture that Ford Motor Company’s former CEO Alan Mulally developed. Mulally’s leadership and the culture he created boosted employee engagement, productivity and innovation, and ultimately led to the company’s miraculous turnaround.
Tag Archives: Employee Engagement
How to Beat Stress and Elevate Engagement
Don’t miss Dr. Todd Hall’s webinar tomorrow titled “How to Beat Stress and Elevate Engagement.” See details and signup here.
Create and Implement a Connection Culture Survey
#92 Create and Implement a Connection Culture Survey
Many organizations implement employee engagement surveys and these surveys are mostly about connection. We recommend that organizations develop a customized employee engagement or connection culture survey to identify those individuals who excel in creating connection cultures so that you can celebrate them and identify their best practices to share with others. In addition, these intentional connectors may be willing to mentor others.
This is the ninety-second post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
Find New Ways to Connect by Discussing a Story a Week
#78 Discuss a Story a Week
Part IV of Fired Up or Burned Out has 20 inspiring stories of great leaders who created Connection Cultures (see pages 132-194). Take your team through one story each week and discuss how you can employ the practices in each chapter to your workplace.
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This is the seventy-eighth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
How Leaders can Identify and Establish Core Values That Connect
If you asked your employees what the organization’s core values are, could they tell you? Most cannot.
This is a problem for leaders since it is impossible to create a healthy corporate culture, which I refer to as a “Connection Culture,” if employees can’t articulate what the organization stands for. Furthermore, the organization’s values should be ones that encourage connection and teamwork, rather than silos and dysfunctional behavior.
The following steps can help leaders to identify and establish core values that are meaningful and encourage connection across the entire organization:
The Secret Weapon in Combating Employee Engagement Woes: Part 3
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As seen on AMA Playbook
Check out the final part of a three part series we wrote for the American Management Association’s Playbook. Part 3 is on the connection culture element of voice.
The Secret Weapon in Combating Employee Engagement Woes: Part 2
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As seen on AMA Playbook
Check out the second of a three part series we wrote for the American Management Association’s Playbook. Part 2 is on the connection culture element of value.
The Secret Weapon in Combating Employee Engagement Woes: Part 1
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As seen on AMA Playbook
Check out the first of a three part series we wrote for the American Management Association’s Playbook. Part 1 is on the connection culture element of vision.
What Corporate Culture is Best for Change?
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As seen on Fox Business and SmartBlog on Leadership
Consider this: few of the 500 largest corporations from 50 years ago exist today. They failed to change and became irrelevant, left behind by emerging competitors more in tune with the market.
How is it possible that so many top companies made this same fatal mistake? The answer may lie in a very simple explanation. Humans run corporations, and humans have a biological aversion to change.
The Optimum Number of Annual Goals
#61 Set “Top Five” Annual Goals
Both individually and as a team, set no more than five challenging but achievable annual goals. If you go beyond five annual goals, it will diminish focus and effective execution by tending to overwhelm those responsible for implementation. One day each week, review your weekly plans to see that they are aligned with your Top Five.
This is the sixty-first post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.