Blog – Page 6 – Reengagement Realized

Storytelling for [Creating Common Organizational] Purpose

25 May 2015

Last evening, I once again had the pleasure of attending one of Rick Wolfe’s “Kitchen Table Conversations” on Storytelling for a Purpose. The dozen or so people around the table – not in his kitchen, but at the Centre for…

Authentic Acknowledgement and the Roots of Engagement

21 May 2015

Mark

Appreciative practices, Engagement, Human Resource(fulness), Leadership, Performance

With employee engagement becoming the prime focus of today’s “Talent Management Business Partners” among many large corporations, the question of what truly drives engagement comes to the fore. It’s widely accepted that acknowledgement is a key facilitator of engaged employees.…

Panning for Qualitative Insight Gold

11 May 2015

Mark

Everything else

During the Klondike gold rush, prospectors would sit in rivers, pan in hand, to sift through streams of rocks and pebbles to find bits of gold. Individually, the tiny nuggets weren’t of much value. Taken together in large enough volume,…

Are You Leading Your Brand, and Branding Your Leadership?

15 April 2015

Mark

Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Performance

“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time, it’s enemy action.’” Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger may be more menacing in his notice of repeated occurrences. For me, once is a notice. Twice…