Engaged Leadership
Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement
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Beschreibung
When Engaged Leadership was first published in 2007, a majority of employees in the United States had already mentally checked out on the job-and that was before the ax came down in 2008 and 2009. Without a doubt, employee disengagement still exists, and if you want your business to survive, you need a plan to overcome it.
High unemployment and a limping recovery have provided even more reasons for building a culture of engagement. Those left in the workforce-now doing the work of two or more people and living in fear of a pink slip-may be more productive, but you can't call them engaged. As the economy turns around, your industrious workers will have options they haven't had in years-and if they're unhappy, they'll jump ship.
Engaged Leadership offers both a fable and a step-by-step blueprint to ensure a culture of engagement that will draw employees out of their rut and keep your best and brightest. Learn how to:
* Recruit support from the top 29 percent-those employees who are engaged-to influence others to get on board with the new culture
* Prepare your organization for change and provide open and honest communication with employees about the company's performance and their own
* Motivate employees by celebrating small successes, encouraging work-life balance, and creating a fair work environment
* Lead across generational divides
* Identify and recruit appropriate talent, according to their needs and yours
With job satisfaction in the United States at its lowest level in two decades, disengagement has reached epidemic proportions. The key to your company's recovery-and that of the entire economy-lies in everyone's willingness to join a new culture of engagement.
Engaged Leadership 2e addresses the challenge of employee disengagement. Great leaders realize that in order to thrive, they must overcome the epidemic of employee disengagement. Building a culture to overcome employee disengagement is even more important now than it was three years ago. When times were great, it was rather easy for leaders to overlook disengaged employees as long as the business was growing and numbers were being met. With smaller teams to perform the work, it is essential that employers get the most from employees by ensuring a culture of engagement.
As we emerge from the recession and businesses begin to hire again, employees will have options they haven't had in a few years. Employers may begin to see their best and brightest depart for other opportunities if a culture of disengagement has been allowed to exist. It will be imperative for leaders to focus on employee engagement in order to encourage good employees to stay when other opportunities arise, and to attract top talent when hiring resumes.
Engaged Leadership 2e will provide even more reasons for building a culture to overcome employee disengagement. Clint will address the impact high unemployment has had on employee engagement, and the impact it has had on those left behind doing the work of two people. He will also address the issues surrounding a lack of job security brought on by the global recession, and the growing impact of social media on employee engagement.
And finally, Clint will update the fable to make it more current, and will add on additional sections to update readers on where certain characters have ended up as a result of the current economic impact on the organization in the fable. He will also tie the updated fable to closely to Living for the Weekday, with the ultimate goal of tying the two books together in all his speaking and consulting.
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Clint Swindall
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