If your your employees seem disengaged or distracted it might just be that employees just aren't that concerned about working... It must be the economy, right? Not necessarily. It might be you or your management skills aren't working.

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With the unemployment rate hitting 9.5 percent in June, job security is dwindling. But Generation Y is feeling it the most--and investing the least in their jobs.

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Happiness: the Nirvana of Employee Engagement

A critical principle underlying Lean (Toyota Production System and derivatives) is respect for the individual employee. How does this manifest itself?

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Employee Voice Award Presented to Companies for Excellence in Employee Engagement

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Great example of leaders and employees working together for the best interest of all in difficult times.

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Can their talents actually alienate colleagues and hurt your organization?

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The Value of Empowerment - The 6 Levels of Empowerment

Many managers view empowerment as something you either give or you don’t. Similar to delegation – you delegate a task or project to someone, thus you empower them to do that task or project. However, delegation is wholly separate from empowerment.

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It's all about productivity (and clarity)

According to Proudfoot Consulting's 2006 Productivity Report, the average worker is unproductive for 33.5 days a year. This isn't an accumulation of wasted time; it's an accumulation of "off" days or days where nothing seems to get done. Imagine.

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H.L. Mencken once wrote, "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." A dispiriting thought, to be sure. It would be so much easier to think that there's one pat answer, or a single silver bullet, that could solve every problem.

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The Value of Employee Empowerment - Part 1

Empowerment – another over used buzzword and misused concept in today’s business.

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The Power of Employee Engagement - Part 2

In the last article on employee engagement, we talked about what engagement is, the relationship between employee engagement, high performance, and company growth, and the cost of low employee engagement levels. In this article, I want to focus on what a manager can and needs to  …

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Now, Discover Your Strengths - The Strengths Revolution

"We wrote this book to start a revolution - a Strengths Revolution" These were the opening words of the book "Now, Discover your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. The premise is that businesses (and people) are built on two faulty assumptions:

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