Posts Tagged ‘engagement’
How Games Can Drive Work Engagement
We’re hardwired to enjoy games – they’re addictive, skill-building, and satisfying. So the question is: How can we integrate game concepts into our work lives to help us push ideas forward? In this talk, given at The 99% Conference (not the 99% currently occupy Wall Street), Aaron Dignan explains how to leverage the addictive nature [...]
The Progress Principle @TEDxAtlanta
At LeaderLab, we’re big fans on the research of Teresa Amabile. With the publication of her newest book, The Progress Principle, we’re grateful to see her ideas in demand all of the globe. In this video from TEDxAtlanta, Teresa Amabile explains how companies can overcome the “crisis of disengagement” occurring in the workplace.
shorts.006 | Organizational Support & Engagement
There’s some recent research suggests that value congruence – the extent to which employees can behave at work consistent with their own self-image – might enhance employee engagement. Employees are just not likely to fully invest their head, hands, and hearts in work they don’t find meaningful. But employees also need to believe their work is [...]
Disengagement: Is it always the leader’s fault?
I grabbed supper at Quizno’s a few days ago and saw two of the most disengaged employees I have ever seen. In the half hour I was there, they took two smoke breaks, in uniform, right in front of the door. We barely got greeted. The floors were filthy. The tables were dirty. they left a [...]
May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival
Once again Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership has done us all a great favor by searching the web-based leadership literature and posting his collection of the best articles for the month of May. The May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival features two posts from LeaderLab contributors. Bret L. Simmons presents Employee Empowerment: Why It Matters And How [...]
