Month: March 2018

‘Strategies’ is one of the top three most Googled employee engagement search terms.  I have four powerful strategies to re-engage employees, so each Thursday in April we’re diving deep into one of them. This week’s focus? The importance of getting the right person in every chair – who you hire and who you...

The top three Google searches related to employee engagement are meaning, importance, and strategies.  In an effort to provide thought leadership around this topic, I sat down with GroSum, a performance management software firm, to share my philosophies and thinking.

In a recent Forbes article, members of the Forbes Coaches Council shared strategies for improving employee engagement.  As most of you know, I’m a fan of the three to five rule, so here are three ideas of the 13 which I think would have the most impact in your business.  

Firas Kittanesh gets it. A serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of Amerisleep, an eco-friendly luxury mattress company, he has grown the business to serve hundreds of thousands of customers across the globe with no loans or investors.  Yes, you read that right.

Ingvar Kamprad.  Not a household name, but a Swedish business legacy nonetheless.  The world lost Kamprad - the founder of IKEA - in January at age 91.  Kamprad founded IKEA at 17, by selling replicas of his uncle’s kitchen table.  The chain now has more than 400 locations, $62...