Written by Allan Steinmetz , CEO at Inward Strategic Consulting Two weeks ago I attended the Advanced Learning Institute’s (ALI’s) Employee Engagement and Internal Brand Activation conference in Chicago. I was asked by ALI to lead a step-by-step employee engagement workshop on the first day which was well attended. As a speaker, I was also
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Written by Mary Ann Masarech, Employee Engagement Lead Consultant Business leader and author Arie de Geus once said, “The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” In the years since he made this comment, organizations have grown savvier about learning and development – and how this can drive
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Written by Mary Ann Masarech, Employee Engagement Lead Consultant Fully engaged employees are enthused and in gear. That means their willingness to perform is backed up by their individual talents, alignment with organizational priorities, coaching from their managers, and the resources that they need to achieve results. Yet one of the poorest performing items on
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Written by an excerpt from The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce If engagement in your organization needs a boost, there is a better solution than installing latte machines or allowing employees to bring their dogs to work: align them to what is most important to your organization. Getting all employees aligned to
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Written by Mary Ann Masarech, Lead Consultant, Employee Engagement Practice Thinking about conducting an employee engagement survey? Great news! Survey findings can provide valuable insights for creating a thriving workplace and high-performance culture. Whether you’re gearing up to run your annual survey or tackling a survey project for the first time, we offer four tips
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Written by: Ann Melinger, CEO, Brilliant Ink Last Sunday marked the season finale of Game of Thrones, and now I join the millions of other fans who anxiously have to wait a grueling NINE months for the next season. I was late jumping on the GoT band wagon, but recently binge-watched the first five-and-a-half seasons,
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Wicked Smaht Takeaways from #ALI_IC in Boston Written by: Dayna Robbie, Communications Specialist, College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba I was lucky to meet and hear from some leaders in internal communications last week. My first experience as an ALI conference attendee brought me to Boston and while a Bostonian accent may have rubbed off on
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Written by: Matt Manning, Inward Strategic Consulting In 1996, Nintendo released a role-playing game for their handheld Game Boy system called Pokémon, short for “pocket monsters”. In this game, “trainers” explored a world filled with animal-like characters called Pokémon. The goal was to catch Pokémon in a ball, and then train them by battling other
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We recently conducted an online survey of communicators in the healthcare industry and found that 63% of those that responded named reaching non-desk employees and volunteers as their biggest challenge. If you work in the healthcare industry I’m sure that this isn’t a surprise. From nurses and laboratory technicians to emergency medical technicians and surgical
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As we come to the end of our Employee Experience series, we want to close on what we believe to be one of the most important components used to fuel the employee experience—Employer Branding. In today’s competitive marketplace, a company’s employer brand is an essential tool to attract and retain top talent. How Can Companies
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