Archive for the ‘Employee Engagement’ Category

Book Review of Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 10, 2017
Filed in Collaboration, Communication, Culture, Employee Engagement

Full of stories about the operations General Stanley McChrystal’s task force conducted in Iraq, this book is great inspiration for change. Find out more.

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The Value of Stories in Successful Project Delivery

Stories can be used to keep a project’s purpose front-of-mind, ensuring that it stays true to the original intent. Learn how stories can help in this post.

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How management by wandering around (MBWA) helps with change management

Posted by  Mark Schenk —December 15, 2016
Filed in Culture, Employee Engagement

Apply MBWA and just by being out there at the coalface, you’ll help tackle a key source of change resistance – anti stories. Learn how it works here.

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Business storytelling methods for lawyers and law firms

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 25, 2016
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement

Like any professional service provider, a lawyer must make a good connection with a potential client. Learn how business storytelling can help.

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Complex times call for disruptive leadership

Posted by  David Green —July 29, 2016
Filed in Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts

Continual discomforts and changes have become central to the experience of managers. These times call for disruptive leadership traits, do you have them?

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Case studies are dead. Long live success stories

How do you make case studies interesting to read, easy to recall and effortless to retell? Anecdote Partner, Indranil Chakraborty, shares tips here:

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For those at the top, fostering engagement is a daily routine

It has been proven that employee engagement is strongly linked to overall company performance so why do many executives and HR teams struggle to foster it?

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An indicator of group fear in organisations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 2, 2014
Filed in Collaboration, Employee Engagement

Over the years I’ve shown a clever little animation in our workshops to illustrate our propensity to tell ourselves stories when things are ambiguous and unclear. …

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How to embed company values with systematic stories

What do your organisational values actually mean? Do you have a list of 4, 5, 6 one-word, abstract concepts such as integrity, responsive and agile …

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Story-triggering and behavioural integrity

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —February 27, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts

People judge their leaders by how their actions align with their words. And how aligned these two things are then triggers stories that get told, …

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