Employee Engagement – Want to Play?

by Doug Shaw on November 22, 2012

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Employee Engagement

What if it didn’t need a case study?

What if it didn’t need a program?

What if it didn’t need a job title?

What if it just needs us?

Want to play?

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broc.edwards November 22, 2012 at 12:40 pm

Doug, a former employer once asked a very successful lawyer what she looked for when hiring attorneys into her firm. He was very focused on success indicators such as the school they attended, grades, etc. and I think he was a bit surprised by her response:

“I look for people who give a damn.”

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Doug Shaw November 22, 2012 at 3:01 pm

Ta da! That’s great broc – thanks.

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Peter Cook - The Rock'n'Roll Business Blogger November 23, 2012 at 10:54 am

Too bloody right – I worked for Wellcome in the 1970′s – it was poorly managed, but excellently led by today’s HR competency standards. There were no exhortations to employee engagement on the walls and people did what they thought was right. The company would have been considered shambolic by modern standards, but won 4 Nobel Prizes for its work. Other drug companies would probably kill their grandmother to win one.

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Doug Shaw November 26, 2012 at 10:19 am

Surely other drug companies would have invented something to bring her back to life? Thanks Peter – a great story

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Graham Frost November 24, 2012 at 3:25 pm

I also think it is rather sad that we have to have an employee engagement ‘programme’. It’s a reflection of the state we’ve got ourselves into that we have to tell people how to run a successful, sustainable business simply by getting the best from their people. It amazes me that anyone would get anywhere near managing a team of people without ‘getting’ engagement.

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Doug Shaw November 26, 2012 at 10:20 am

yep – that. Thanks Graham.

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Peter Cook - The Rock'n'Roll Business Blogger November 24, 2012 at 3:40 pm

Precisely Graham.

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