Few challenges drive managers crazier than the constant battle to get their teams aligned to produce consistently strong results. Steve Lawler of the Lawler Group draws on his unique experience as a team-building consultant and Episcopal priest to provide a roadmap with practical tools and concrete examples of how to get team members working on the same page and pulling in the same direction.

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It just isn’t the “right fit.” How often do we hear that excuse when an organization has an employee problem that leads to poor performance – and often letting people go? Knowing how to make that right fit and maintain it over time is one of the biggest challenges facing HR management today. Jeff Pattison, Director of Employee Support and Development for Store Supply Warehouse, offers great insights in this interview on what it takes to create a “fitness” system – not just a program – that gets the right people in the right place doing the right things to ensure their own personal success as well as that of the business.

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The sense of urgency and frustration in the search to find a truly successful employee engagement formula is accelerating daily. Engagement expert, Bill Burnett, thinks many organizations are losing their way, in part, because they’re asking the wrong question – “What can we do to fully engage our employees?” Burnett says employees are already there, and instead companies should be asking “How do we stop DIS-engaging our employees?” One key answer he offers to that question is the need to get past the traditional parent-child relationship that exists between many managers and the people who report to them. In this enlightening interview, Burnett offers a model called “peer-to-peer accountability” to create a new, more productive set of working relationships in organizations.

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It’s one thing to realize that engaged employees are a vital key to business success. It’s quite another to know how to get there. The employee engagement field is covered with people who have varying opinions on what it takes to tap into the full potential of the workforce. Dr. Hazen Witemeyer offers revealing insights on critical drivers and indicators of employee engagement based on a rich combination of research she conducted for her recently completed dissertation — plus 15 years of hard-knock practical experience as a manager in the corporate world.

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What’s the one critical factor in getting employees tuned in and turned on to go the extra mile? According to employee engagement expert David Zinger it’s – helping people feel truly connected … with one another, with the customer, with the organization as a whole and everyone associated with it. In this program, you will hear how David helps organization make that connection with his highly popular model called “The 10-Block Pyramid for Employee Engagement.” You’ll also learn about The Employee Engagement Network, a prominent online employee engagement community of more than 6,000 members that David founded and currently hosts.

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Companies everywhere are scrambling to figure out how respond to a seismic shift taking place away from traditional organizational structures and decision-making authority. Hear Anna McGrath, principal and founder of WonderWorks Consulting, talk about how “holacracy” is providing a “positively disruptive” framework that allows all employees to take greater initiative and participate in decision-making with a single set of rules that apply to everyone in the organization. You’ll also learn how to create what Anna calls “fabulously juicy organizations that live their purpose.”

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Tom Watson, founder of IBM, once said, “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” Think about the message that kind of comment sends to employees. “It’s not only okay to fail, that’s how we succeed. We not only tolerate honest mistakes, that’s what we expect.” Hear internationally renowned expert, Cindy Solomon, talk about how she helps organizations world-wide create a “culture of courage.” Learn what it takes to build a work environment where employees feel safe and strong enough to stand up, step out and fearlessly pursue continuous improvement and innovation.

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Employee engagement surveys come in all shapes and sizes, and they are definitely not all created equal. Creating an effective survey that produces meaningful, actionable data is a true science. According to Bob Hardy from Opinions Incorporated, it begins with a rigorous process to ensure that you are crystal clear about what you want to GET from it – and what you’re going to DO with it. Then you need to be painstakingly precise in asking the right questions in the right way to ensure you’re evoking appropriate responses. Listen in and learn how to make sure you’re hitting the mark and getting the bang for the buck in your next employee engagement survey.

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Most companies are discovering that employee recognition is more than a nice thing to do – it’s just good business. Still, much of the recognition that takes place is more about one-off programs and activities rather than a routine “habit.” Drawing from his new book, “Recognize THEM: 52 Ways to Recognize Your Employees in Ways They Value,” consultant and author, Zane Safrit, talk about how to imbed recognition into the heartbeat of your organization in a way that really works. He also talks about the bottom line impact that companies can expect when they do recognition right.

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Website: www.zanesafrit.com

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The quest to crack the code to employee engagement and unleash the power of people in the workplace has led organizations down countless paths – most of which have futile and frustrating. Part of the problem according to employee engagement expert, Les Landes of Landes & Associates, is the tendency to search out and implement “best practices” from other companies. Instead, he argues that organizations first need to delve into the “WHY” before the “HOW” so they can understand the elemental truths underlying human behavior in the workplace – and then create the systems, policies and processes that fit their own unique culture. Landes illustrates his points by drawing from his new business fable, “Getting to Heart of Employee Engagement: The Power and Purpose of Imagination and Free Will in the Workplace.”

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Strategy is not just for leaders anymore. Changing times have brought changing attitudes and expectations among employees. They want to know more about what’s going on in the company and in the marketplace. What’s more, they want to know how strategy affects them and what they can do it about it. In short, they want to be in on the ground floor of strategic business conversations, according to leadership and communication expert, David Grossman of the Grossman Group. Learn about the mistakes that leaders make in the way they typically develop and deploy strategic plans – and discover the kind of impact it can have on company performance when employees are given an opportunity to understand more about the company strategy and how they can help bring it to life.

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