September 2017

• Employee Engagement week ( and debunking) continues. (3/7): The Happy Cows model
• Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement (2/7): Giving employees a voice. So, now we have a choir. And then what?
• Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of Emperors with No Clothes. (1/7) The six models
• Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)
• The clouds move to follow me; the traffic lights go green when I move
• Build your own Employee Engagement argument for free. You can’t go wrong
• This is a non-smoking flight
• The Rolling Luggage Paradox
• End of Week Summary
• The last thing I need is creativity
• We are so good at crisis!
• 3 versions of speed
• ‘Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig’
• The three ‘magic’ words: transparency, clarity and fairness
• Make your trade off(s) transparent
• End of Week Summary
• To learn how to create a culture of customer focus, use one
• I can prove anything in management thinking. Watch me!
• Never sell your time
• When necessary use words
• Stop press: Candidate interviewed by authentic people
• Empowerment: the muddle. The wrong conversation, until you start unpacking the concept and dismantling the house of buzzwords.
• End of Week Summary
• ‘We have a communication problem’ is not always a good start.
• Employee Engagement as morally imperative. (6/7) A forgotten model?
• In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire