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Employee Engagement Strategies: Common Roadblocks

by Dr. Rick Goodman on November 11, 2019

Most of the team leaders I speak with recognize the value of implementing employee engagement strategies. After all, the benefits of employee engagement are well-documented; they include:

Greater creativity and collaboration
Higher standards of productivity
Less turnover, and fewer turnover costs
Higher employee satisfaction, which spills over into improved customer service

But if most team leaders see the value in employee engagement, that doesn’t necessarily mean they all implement employee engagement strategies.… Read more...

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Key Questions to Ask Your Transformational Leadership Expert

by Dr. Rick Goodman on November 4, 2019

When you hire a transformational leadership expert, or really any kind of business coach, it’s with the expectation that they can help you make some key changes to your life, your team, and your career.

It’s important to remember, however, that working with a transformational leadership expert is a two-way street.… Read more...

Do You Have an Effective Performance Management System?

by Dr. Rick Goodman on October 28, 2019

In order to get the most out of your team members, it’s important to have a formalized performance management system in place. This is something I’ve written about in the past, and frankly, it’s something that most team leaders say they’re well aware of. … Read more...

10 Ingredients in Effective Employment Engagement Strategies

by Dr. Rick Goodman on October 21, 2019

Not all employment engagement strategies are created equal. The approach that unifies and mobilizes one team may not work as well in a different workplace context. With that said, I truly believe there are some fundamentals, some ingredients that pretty much all employment engagement strategies have in common.… Read more...

Assess Your Organizational Culture with These 10 Questions

by Dr. Rick Goodman on October 14, 2019

Organizational culture is something I’ve blogged about, and spoken about, many times before. What I’ve found is that most business owners and HR professionals are keenly aware of the fact that they have an organizational culture, and that it impacts the engagement, creativity, and productivity of their team.… Read more...

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How to Measure Employment Engagement Strategies

by Dr. Rick Goodman on October 7, 2019

Implementing employment engagement strategies is an important step for any business. However, simply setting the wheels in motion is not enough. Proper employment engagement strategies include plenty of reflection, review, and revision. In other words, it’s crucial to measure the effects of your employment engagement approach, evaluating what’s working and what’s not, appraising your progress against key benchmarks, and maintaining an outlook of continuous improvement.… Read more...

10 Reasons to Hire a Transformational Leadership Expert

by Dr. Rick Goodman on September 30, 2019

A transformational leadership expert may be just the right person to help you facilitate meaningful shifts in your company culture, your mission-mindedness, even your productivity. Indeed, when you hire a transformational leadership expert to assess your business needs and growth areas, you position your entire team to summit the next level of success.… Read more...

Troubleshooting Your Employment Engagement Strategies

by Dr. Rick Goodman on September 23, 2019

Employment engagement strategies can be enormously beneficial for your business. I’ve written about this many times in the past, and there’s no need to beat a dead horse, but I’ll very briefly highlight some of the key advantages of an effective employment engagement framework:

Improved morale and employee mental health
Increased team loyalty and cohesion
Enhances productivity
More creative problem-solving
Decreased turnover and recruitment costs

The important thing to know about employment engagement strategies, though, is that you can’t just set them in place and then forget that they exist.… Read more...

6 Employee Engagement Strategies You Can Implement Today

by Dr. Rick Goodman on September 18, 2019

Your business may have a number of valuable assets, but there’s nothing more precious than your team. A highly motivated and engaged team should be prized above all else. And it’s not something you’ll achieve by accident; instead, you’ll need the right employee engagement strategies to ensure your team members are truly aligned with the company’s vision.… Read more...

Why Effective Team Leadership Requires Transformational Leadership

by Dr. Rick Goodman on September 16, 2019

Effective team leadership can be defined in many ways, but for the purposes of today, I’d like to define it in terms of a concept that’s near and dear to my heart: transformational leadership. I’ve spent a good chunk of my career as a transformational leadership expert, and I’m more convinced with each passing day that effective team leadership and transformational team leadership are basically the same thing.… Read more...