Whether you are building a team from scratch or planning to improve the engagement of the existing team, you need to start measuring and monitoring employee engagement as soon as possible. This is Part 3 of “How to improve employee engagement”. Here you will learn why measuring employee engagement is important and how to set up […]
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Employee Engagement: Practical Steps to Take Now
This is Part 2 of “How to improve employee engagement”. In Part 1, we discussed “What is employee engagement” and how much it costs to not have an engaged workforce (more than you might imagine). In this part, we introduce the first practical steps you should take to improve your team’s engagement. While searching for […]
Unlocking Employee Engagement: Driving Productivity and Profits
As we enter the knowledge economy, forward-thinking leaders are increasingly looking to employee engagement as a key driver of sustainable productivity growth.
Learn more about employee engagement, its tangible benefits, and how to improve and measure it.
Post-Lockdown Employee Engagement Survey
As we start seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, we realize that we are not going to get back to normal. The new normal will be different. The pandemic crisis has been an “up-or-out” test for most businesses. Only the teams that have engaged employees will come out stronger. As a […]
Beyond the “Engagement Slump”
Why Alignment is the Only Leading Indicator That Matters in the 21st Century The 2026 Gallup State of the Global Workplace Report is out, and it offers more than just a list of grievances. It provides a roadmap for the “New Smart” leader. The headlines are focused on the “engagement slump”—with 64% of employees “not […]
The Performance Triangle – Balancing Workplace Hygiene, Motivation, and Engagement
The Performance Triangle components – workplace hygiene, motivation, and engagement – shape organizational performance.
Productivity, Happiness, Engagement and IQ
I merged and analyzed the available data on GDP (per capita), national IQs, happiness, and employee engagement worldwide, for 93 countries. My goal is to come up with practical suggestions to business leaders; thus, these observations are focused more on qualitative results and trends than on the “scientificity” of the idea. Here are my observations focused on qualitative results and trends.
The ROE: Return On Engagement
A traveler passes a construction site and sees three men working. He asks the first man what he is doing and gets a reply: “I am laying bricks.” The second says: “I am building a wall.” Finally, the third man answers: “I am building a cathedral.”
What the Feds Could Indeed Improve—Without DOGE
Having explored in Part 1 how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) represents a fundamentally flawed approach to federal transformation, let’s now turn to the realistic alternatives that could deliver meaningful, sustainable improvement. The Realistic Efficiency Opportunity Based on my extensive experience with organizational transformation across private and public enterprises, federal efficiency can improve dramatically—without […]
Frogs as Lubricant: The Good, the Bad, and the DOGE
My guide on a tour of an ancient windmill, dressed as the 18th-century miller, explained with a nasty smile that he used frogs as lubricant. “Not the best lube,” he chuckled, “but widely available and virtually costless.” Simple and effective, like all ingenious things. Indeed, if cost-cutting is your only concern and “biotic resources” are […]