June 10th, 2008
If you’re a people manager, then you know taking care of your people is the most important thing you can do. You know that you can’t get work done without the people you serve and yet many organizations don’t invest any time or money in employee customer care. I had been looking for a […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 4 comments
June 6th, 2008
Employee engagement is one of the most important things you need to understand to become a great manager. It’s something David and I are extremely passionate about unpacking and teaching back.
This week I was fortunate to talk to Sybil Stershic, author of the amazing book Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most, and I’ll […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 0 comments
May 22nd, 2008
Employee Engagement From A to Z
by David Zinger
Are you looking for ideas to create, build, foster, and sustain employee engagement? In conjunction with 11 other authors from the EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK we created a 39 page free e-book to enrich your employee engagement knowledge and efforts.
Here are the authors
Tim Wright
Terrence Seamon
Steve Roesler
Lisa Forsyth
Raven Young
Robert Morris
Ken […]
By David Zinger -- 5 comments
April 14th, 2008
“Great leaders of the most successful companies in the world are great stewards.” - Jason Jennings
Those words rang in my ears as I left the 2008 HDI Annual Conference a few weeks ago, and they are still bouncing around in my head today.
Jason Jennings shared a great message, about how the organizations he studied all […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 6 comments
February 22nd, 2008
“It’s better to train your people and have them leave than it is to not train them and they stay or they don’t get training and they leave.” - Phil Gerbyshak
OK, so it’s no shock I’m a HUGE proponent of training. I write at 3 blogs frequently (Slacker Manager obviously, Make It Great! and Joyful […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 5 comments
January 3rd, 2008
I recently finished listening to 3 Signs of a Miserable Job by Pat Lencioni. It’s another book like Lencioni’s other books (5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Silos and Turf Wars, Death by Meeting and 5 Temptations of a CEO, all also really well done) in that it’s told as a fable. For me, that makes […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 4 comments
January 1st, 2008
As a manager, I have weekly reviews with each member of my team. We talk about 3 things each week:
What’s gone well (and how can we do more of that)
What needs improvement (and how can we improve faster)
What’s the general feeling of how things are going in relation to your goals and the rest of […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 3 comments
December 30th, 2007
My previous article about employee engagement has generated some amazing conversation, and for those who haven’t read the video, click over and check out some employee engagement.
One of the things that came through LOUD and CLEAR is that the video, with it’s soft pictures and cheesy piano music is pretty ineffective. If instead you focus […]
By Phil Gerbyshak -- 6 comments
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