Tag: employee engagement

• Software Is Not a Substitute for Brains

  Yesterday at the holiday lunch, a colleague told us about his background. “I used to jump out of planes,” he shared. “That’s pretty impressive,” someone said. “You were a paratrooper?” He laughed. “In the Marines, we just called it jumping out of planes.” In a nutshell, that’s how I feel about the term “employee engagement.”…

  dannielleblumenthal

  December 16, 2016

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  Dannielle Blumenthal, employee engagement, Gallup, Google, Harvard business review, internal communication, internal communications, jive, Marketing, yammer

• Don’t Rock The Boat

  I may have shared this previously but a colleague (in government) once warned me that “they only hire people they can control.” At the time I was so much more naive than I am now, and I’ll be honest, the words went into my head but they didn’t really register. My thought as she spoke…

  dannielleblumenthal

  November 28, 2016

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  Bill Clinton, Dannielle Blumenthal, employee engagement, Federal Communicators Network, George Bush, innovation, National Partnership for Reinventing Government, President Obama

• Engage Employees In The Weeds, Not The Clouds

  Typically organizations measure employee engagement rates to find out “how well we’re doing.”   Also typically most employees are nearly or totally checked out of the job, with reputable polling companies like Gallup putting the proportion at 70%.   Think about that: In an economy powered by emotional and intellectual capital, fully seven out of…

  dannielleblumenthal

  November 21, 2016

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  corporate culture, corporate life, Dannielle Blumenthal, divorce, employee engagement, Gallup, Institute for Family Studies, management, marriage, Organizational culture, organizational development, Terri Orbuch, Victor Lipman