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BECOMING A TOP WORKPLACECulture eats strategy. Every time.
Why your company needs an Employee Engagement Plan
It isn't pretty; but it is a law of the business jungle. No matter how good your idea; no matter how cutting-edge your tactics; no matter how urgent your need, your company's culture truly determines your success.
RapidChange Group works with you to discover your culture's strengths and its opportunities to better align with your strategy. In the process, you will pick up insights and skills that will help your company be more resilient, more efficient and more profitable.
CLICK HERE: To learn how RapidChange and Workplace Dynamics can customize an Employee Engagement Plan for your workplace.
"The reason for reason is to win arguments, not find the perfect solution."
- Hugo Mercier, neuroscientist
THE SIX-MONTH SPRINT
You don't have time for that ...
Employee engagement critical for companies in lean times
Rapid Change and WorkplaceDynamics, the power behind the Top Workplaces Surveys, are joining forces to help companies address employee engagement issues. WorkplaceDynamics' "Brilliantly simple surveys" allow your company to get a clear, actionable picture of engagement. RapidChange's Six-Month Sprint approach provides a clear, yet customizable, path to get meaningful and measurable results.
"The
major transition most leaders have to make is from 'how am I going to
do it?' to 'how do I engage all these people to accomplish the goal?' "
– Mark A Suwyn, retired CEO, Louisiana-Pacific Corp.
Are you leading a cognitive company?
New challenges require employees with new skills
Employees today in every sector of the economy are being compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information. Your company, whether it repairs cars or builds rocket ships, will sink or swim based on a new type of employee.
There are a number of ways to gain those employees, including firing the ones you have and hiring new ones or training the ones you have in the skills they need.
You can't force people to be smarter or better able to mentally juggle. You can, our current research shows, create the environment where people are 3 times more likely to develop needed skills. A cognitively driven company adopts these characteristics:
• Predictable way of making decisions that is easily understood and, when possible, inclusive.
• Clarity of expectations – both goals and consequences – for every employee.
• Consistent, commonly understood ways for employees at every level to raise issues, suggest ideas and participate in solutions.
• Aggressive efforts to maximize employee engagement by mining existing talents and using education to develop new ones.
Definition of a Meeting: Waiting for my turn to speak.
And now, for a video break ...
TED Talks on Employee Engagement and Brain research:
> Paul Wolpe on ethics and neuro/bio science> David Brooks on the Social Animal> Nigel Marsh on work-life balance
> Barry Schwartz on Practical Wisdom and Common Sense
"Innovation
that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.
Innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly but dumb."
- Curtis Carlson, CEO, SRI International
ONE-MINUTE CONSULTATION
Why it is called 'leadership' and not 'do-it-yourself-ship'
There are lots of managers out there spending 16-18 hours a day devoted to their work. Too often, however, those so-called leaders are spending that time doing things they should be delegating to others. Sure, the "leader" looks busy and is accomplishing plenty. But how much more could that manager accomplish by training, trusting and leading employees instead of making them redundant?
"Dan was excellent. He gave a concise, informative and practical presentation, that quite frankly should be given to most major corporations."
- Dolores Schiffman, American Airlines
TRAINING FOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Biology: New Framework for Change
We are stuck in a binary way of thinking - the physics of 1s and 0s, yes and no, A or B. RapidChange president and chief storyteller Dan Suwyn recently was invited to talk at the TEDx Creative Coast conference about a new way of managing change. You can improve your organization's decision-making by bringing RapidChange to your site.
Click here to see the full video
TEDx Creative Coast roundup
For other TEDx Creative Coast videos
"Emails should never be used for hugs or slugs – just data and agendas."
- Policy, Third Federal Bank
THE WAY WE'RE WIRED: Teaching managers how people Think, Act & Feel
This
half-day workshop will give your managers a new perspective on how
to communicate more effectively and productively with their boss, their
peers and their employees to drive success. We have reviewed the last 20
years of cognitive brain research to develop the most practical, most
science-supported methods to make it easy to navigate rapid change.
CLICK HERE: To learn how easy it is for RapidChange to bring this training to your workplace.
