Category: Management & Leadership
Do you really need a Chief Happiness Officer?
A quick search on LinkedIn on ‘chief happiness’ led to over 16.000 results. It seems...
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part II
Most empowerment programs aren’t empowerment at all if a manager gives up some authority only he can give. So let’s start the other way around: Reverse delegation assumes an employees can take any decision except for what he doesn’t feel like and what has been set as constraints. So how do we do this?
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Employee engagement in The Netherlands is one of the lowest in the world!
We shared some overall numbers on employee engagement already in part I and II of this series. But Gallup’s study was much more detailed. For example, I was surprised to find that engagement in The Netherlands was actually one of the lowest in Europe. My liberal happy little country? What gives?
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Embrace the Cynics
When managing change we tend to give a lot of attention to our champions. And for good reason. We also spend a lot of energy persuading the ones that are sitting on the fence. And we even pay attention to the saboteurs. But we tend to ignore the cynics. Why? The cynic might proof to be a mighty ally.
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Escape the Tyranny of the Urgent
There are always urgent things to do. You know you should work on some longer-term tasks too, but every time something more urgent pops up. You promise yourself that after this one you will absolutely take on this longer-term task. But then the next urgent issue pops up. Sound’s familiar? What to do?
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Shifting gears on employee engagement
Over two-thirds of employees worldwide are not engaged. In part II of this article about employee engagement we are going deep to discover practices you as a manager can use to build an environment that drives engagement and get better overall results. Expect practical advice, but backed up by science.
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The state of employee engagement
A shockingly low number of employees worldwide are truly engaged. What does this mean? What are the consequences and costs for our organizations of disengagement? Learn what engagement actually is. Learn the surprising difference between engagement and compliance. And why HR programs usually don’t work.
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How to create servant leaders?
During a training I gave, one of the participants had a question how to support management to change their role towards servant leadership. How can we motivate middle management to change? The specific question was: “If I am going to lose control by delegating authority, what do I get back for it?”
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part I
It’s not that traditional management techniques are wrong per se, but they are no longer the most appropriate way to face today’s complexity. So organizations are struggling to implement alternative ways of managing like employee empowerment. This article provides simple yet powerful tools you can use today.
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If your only tool is a hammer…
The environment of organizations changes at an increasingly fast pace. Complexity and uncertainty are on the rise. But the set of tools that management uses to manage and design their organizations, changes very slowly. There is an increasing mismatch between the tools used and the problems of organizations.
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