Employee Engagement

Do you know the truth about how your people are feeling right now? We'll fill you in. They're hurting, stressed, and exhausted, but don’t feel safe enough to tell us. It's time to figure out how to connect with your people and we have insights to help.

I miss hallway conversations -- not the actual hallway, but the connections. The performance and emotional health of your people in this new virtual work from home world requires leaders to help create deliberate and purposeful connections. Are you prepared?

During change people want and need three things: clarity, connection, and conversation and messaging needs to address each of these elements.

Engagement surveys have a place and time.This is not it. But it's still critical to know what people are thinking,to guide organizational shifts.

While we certainly value in-person gatherings, you can’t afford to put events on hold even if you can’t be together. Your business and strategy can’t wait.

Working from home, or “WFH” as it is now often called, is becoming increasingly common in the modern workplace. To help those who find working from home challenging, here are some tips for staying motivated and being efficient.

My mindset can’t be that of a marathon runner or a sprinter during these uncertain times. Instead, I think we should embrace an interval training mentality.

The big differentiator is how leaders empathize, engage, motivate, and capitalize on their talents and knowledge in the face of adversity.

As we grapple with the challenges of maintaining health and safety, business continuity, and jobs, it’s easy to forget that your people need self-care.

The coronavirus has forced many to cancel meetings, conferences, and gatherings that were previously considered essential. Don't go dark, go virtual! Here are our top tips for driving virtual engagement that works.

Is employee engagement a buzzword? What leaders can do to foster an engaged workforce.

One of our clients is in the telecommunications space, and working with them led to what became the best experience I’ve had in my role as a Concept Artist.

There is nothing better than working in an organization that has a great culture. According to Deloitte, 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe

The following is an excerpt from Erica Kewsin’s Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People

An organization is only as strong and successful as the health of its people. It builds their capacity for optimal performance and overachievement.

There is more than $350 billion of lost productivity every year. Let's recover the lost hours of productivity by engaging people at work.

The power of face-to-face engagement enables people to have meaningful connections which in turns allows them to remember the content even years later.

Three tips to make your change initiative stick by helping every single person understand the "why" and "what" of the strategy and "how" they impact results.

Jim Haudan, and Rich Berens of Root Inc. detail 5 leadership blind spots that hinder employee engagement and innovation in the workplace.

Designing uniforms and implementing change have one thing in common, seek employee feedback if you want it to be successful.

When people are face-to-face, they talk about the true story behind why your business is changing and how they see themselves impacted in that change.

The lack of real dialogue is preventing change in organizations. Here are six ways to ensure dialogue thrives in your organization.

Four ways to build authentic advocacy, which means getting brand buy-in from your employees and customers and getting them involved in advocacy work.

Are you tapped into your employees? Are you confident they understand the driving force behind your company? If you can’t answer “yes”,take a closer listen.

The power of visualization is that it creates a clear picture that enables everyone to constructively discuss their opinions in a more thoughtful way.

This excerpt from the book INSIGHT takes us on a journey of self-exploration, showing us how to survive and thrive an increasingly delusional world.

It's time to start treating your employees as the most important customer, otherwise they cannot deliver the proper experience to your paying customers.

People know the best way to engage themselves with their work. Here is one person's letter to their boss on how they want to be engaged at work.

Diversity and inclusion at work enables people to show up as their whole and authentic selves which allows them to bring 100% of their value everyday.

Why is it worth investing time to create a pre-performance routine? Because, it can put you in the right state of mind to boost your chance of success.

Here are three questions to ask to achieve diversity and inclusion in your marketing to ensure all of your customers are welcome into your company.

You have a new strategy and need employee engagement ideas? Combining metaphors, visualization and discussion enables your strategy to be a success.

Emotional intelligence is just as (if not more) important than technical skill. Here are seven reasons why emotional intelligence is so important.

Engaging people in your company culture takes more than ping pong and a stocked snack room. A compelling organizational purpose is key to your culture.

Everyone has their way to motivate a team; here’s how we do it at Root. Motivating a team is a rewarding experience that has a lasting impact.

When you are the early bird, the world is a different place. Learn how waking up at 4am can have a dramatic benefit on your day.

Disruption. That’s a word that can be misused or even mistaken for a buzzword and it’s anything but. To be a disruptor means to evoke palpable change

It's important to create meaningful lives so here are three things smart people do to create meaningful lives for themselves.

Engaging your employees in the big picture illustrates the need to change and allows them to come to their own conclusions on why change is a must.

Visuals are powerful storytelling tools because they allow you to see the big picture. Read how a visual helped everyone see what was really being discussed.

In most organizations change is hard, that's why using visuals can help everyone see what is really happening.

Gallup shows that employee engagement has risen 5%. So is employee engagement getting better? Find out if 5% is enough and why you should care about it.

To create employee engagement strategies that last, it takes more than a ping pong table and snacks. Here some people actually care about at work.

The innate form of communication is visuals. Learn how visuals can help a strategy roll out be successful by ensuring everyone sees the same strategy.

When you want to improve your onboarding program focus on Day 1. Day 1

There are 4 reason why storytelling is so powerful and enables you to tell your sustainability story successfully. Start telling stories today!

Engaging millennials at work with gamification improves learning and meets them where they are, their phone! Learn why 'mobile first' can have a big impact.

Learn how you can start using a comic in your business to help enable effective strategic communication.

Build better employee engagement by creating super super fan employees. Super fan employees are game changers to their organizations.

Creating a world-class onboarding program with these 7 traits ensures your new strategy will be a success.

It's time to start engaging Millennials at work. Studies find that recent college graduates are not engaged in their work, it's time to change that.

Let's make 2017 the year where we get beyond the buzzword and start using real words to create a shared meaning among all employees.

To unlock employee potential you need to give them the key, or multiple keys. Study what is already working and share it with the rest of your employees.

Whether you’re a CEO, senior manager, or recent college grad just entering the workforce, I have no doubt that you’re hearing the term employee engagement

Long have we been talking about the transformation of HR and how its role and significance is shifting within our businesses

Make it a better workday by saying these things to front line employees. Follow the words with actions to show that you mean them.

If you follow through with transparency and flexibility working hand-in-hand, the end result is happier, more engaged employees

People love a good story and it’s not just because stories are entertaining. We are wired for storytelling. The short story about stories is that they sell.

Root can help show you the big picture of change so you know how much longer you need to fight.

Millions of dollars are spent each year in board rooms as executive teams determine the best strategy to win in the marketplace, be more competitive,

Millennials. They’re entering the workforce in droves, and they’re not very quiet about it.

All of us can learn from one another if we take the time to open up and listen. Even community leaders, politicians, and CEOs have room to learn a lesson.

DuPont Pioneer leaders wanted to increase employee engagement with better clarity, alignment and focus on the company strategy, its process and growth plans

Perspectives on how to anticipate, understand, and initiate conversations with your people to build engagement and improve performance.

What keeps leaders up at night? Things like figuring out how to tweak a business model; how to do things faster, better, and cheaper;

40% of employees don’t understand their company’s purpose. If you don’t know what your company stands for how can you derive the pride of purpose.

Connecting purpose and meaning at the various levels of the business is something that organizations don’t always do and it has detrimental effects.

What’s the case for storytelling? The mind processes information faster and better when it's in the form of something memorable and cohesive, like a story.

Thinking of engagement as a means to successful strategic change rather than an end in itself,than investing in engagement becomes vital to performance.

The Accordion Chart is an innovative tool that provides a useful visual breakdown of everything you need to know to get your employees on the same page.

Your paying customers are actually not your most important customers. Employees are, in fact, who you should focus on most.

Anyone can be creative, but there must be an environment that spurs and facilitates that creativity.Time to forgo traditional mindsets and predictability.

Work with your people to get something on paper – images, words, ideas. Encourage everyone to contribute through every iteration of the visual.

At a time where creativity and strategic innovation is falling short and change is a way of life, people are not showing up at work engaged in what they do.

We have unique ways to engage people, make it interactive, and appeal to both right-brain and left-brain thinkers to help them draw their own conclusions.

A fear-free, open environment encourages people to share ideas. If people know it’s safe to share their thoughts in the workplace, the floodgates open.

Without effective dialogue, achieving real results can be challenging. But how do you ensure the dialogue in your organization is genuine and meaningful?

Our experience bridging the divide between the “smart” and the “healthy” stuff shows that most companies still outsource the engagement of people to HR.

I would argue employee engagement is owned by the executive team, the same way they are responsible for managing all of the other critical assets.

The bottom line is Border's lost its focus on the customer, its purpose for being, and most importantly its people - the 'burning platform' wasn't enough.

Think about companies where employees are engaged. Southwest Airlines or Zappos? It’s a totally different customer experience.

An organization is only as strong as its root system or foundation - mainly it's employees and how engaged they are in the big picture strategy.

As strategy execution consultants, we constantly see mandates to innovate and strategies built around innovation. More than ever, it seems that organic

The real key is each team member must own the whole before their piece: They must sacrifice the area they represent for the overall good of the company.

Design is essentially a rational, logical, sequential process intended to solve problems or initiate change in man-made things

Employees can truly love their organizations only when they are committed to the organization’s vision, understand the strategy and how they contribute

Jim Haudan spoke at an event where he explained how organizations can inspire people, create change, and make a difference

the essence of her golden touch was that she figured out long ago that giving and growing were inseparable. You couldn’t have one without the other.

Cartoons aren't just for the Sunday funnies. Using them at the office opens minds to new ideas by suspending disbelief, so why not a cartoon?

“Our employees are too smart for visuals,” that they’re “analytical and data-driven.", but those same people are using images or visuals to solve problems!

We often build principles of play into our creative methods to solve business problems and build employee engagement along the way.

There is no silver bullet for simultaneously establishing a compelling vision and engendering employee engagement for execution

The question became, “How can we balance the need for leaders to establish their vision while gaining commitment from more employees?”

Is your company at a crossroads on next steps, don't now how to respond to changes, or how to communicate new strategies - storyboards might be the answer

Building a sense of belonging to the team of the future for your people is an important proactive art of leadership and engagement.

Building a sense of belonging to the team of the future for your people is an important proactive art of leadership and engagement.

Any investment in helping managers be better employee coaches can have a lasting and significant impact on the success of your business.

The perennial advice to college grads is “find yourself.” Root CEO Jim Haudan (and others) suggest the real point is to “lose yourself.”

Every new year brings hundreds of predictions and thoughts about future trends. Just five years ago, Josh Bersin predicted that the LMS market would be

“Onboarding” is a term used on cruise ships, but most companies don’t operate on boats. And starting a new position or understanding your role

In sports or business, winning isn’t automatic just because you buy, recruit, or develop great talent. Performance and execution are as much tied to

A few years ago New York Times writer David Brooks wrote an article during the graduation season that really struck a chord with me.

For the first time in history, companies are experiencing four generations of people working side by side, where the age difference may be 50 years or more

One of the fastest ways to provide a common understanding is through a story or a visual. Film marries both approaches in less time.