Posts Tagged ‘Employee engagement newsletters. Employee engagement articles.’

Why do projects so often fail to deliver expectations?

Friday, November 27th, 2009
Let me outline a common scenario that projects implementations experience in complex organisations. Do you recognise this situation? The company has decided tointroduce a new system for allocating work and has chosen to appoint a project team to design and guide the changes. The team includes a core of three permanent employees and representatives from each of the operational functions who use the system. The team gets together for the first time, and after open discussions with the sponsoring executives, develop clarity about their task.

How can the level of engagement in your organisation influence the degree of internal innovation you achieve?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Innovation is a major driver of the economy. It is not only a change that creates a new dimension, but one which has been successfully exploited. The drive to achieve innovation comes from many sources.

Firstly, there is innovation which stems from invention and subsequent planned investment in process and technology which changes the paradigm within which our product or service is delivered.

What actions can an executive take to increase employee engagement

Friday, November 27th, 2009

As an executive in an organisation, your key responsibility is to provide the leadership that will enable your people to be successful. And that’s often quite a tall order. After all, that kind of leadership frequently has to wait until the numbers have been achieved and all fires have been put out.

We have all observed situations where the executive response to problems is to jump in with both feet and impose ideas and solutions for others to implement, whether workable or not. Opportunities for positive reinforcement are not taken, and everyone feels minimised by the experience.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was another way?