#active involvement tools

Leadership: Playing The Fool

ASKING for ideas is a powerful way to drive active involvement and participative learning within a workgroup. It can build teamwork and peer pressure for improvement and the reality is that asking is a hell of a lot better than telling, since you will not generate active or passive resistance.

Play the Fool. Ask your people for their ideas. And be surprised at what you hear.

Then, implementsome,…

Business Haiku on Motivation and Employee Engagement

Ah, The Slackers!

Let’s put the blame on the people for not being motivated, right? After all, the workplace itself must be motivating since at least one of our people seems motivated every day. Right?

No. Not actually…

So here is a little haiku about business leadership and the reality that better wheels are already in the wagon:

Well, the reality is that most workplaces are not functioning all…