FED UP WITH THE NEGATIVITY?

The one simple thing to engage your employees Here they come: your company’s annual Employee Survey results.  Do you wonder how you did? You open the report with trepidation. This is your people’s chance to tell you what they think – about their job, about the company, about you. It all gets packaged into a…

TAKING A LEAP

As a coach, says Deborah Henry-Pollard, Associate Consultant at Coincidencity and creative coach at Catching Fireworks,  I work primarily with professionally creative people, that is, people who make their careers as artists, writers, designers, photographers, musicians, dancers, etc.  Of late, I have noticed an increasing trend in another type of people who are applying to work with me.  These…

DON’T EMPOWER ME

The benefits of having an engaged workforce are well documented by now, yet many companies still struggle to make it a reality. Surveys over the last 30 years show that on average, 70-80% of a given workforce remains disengaged, no matter how many bean bags, slides or foosball tables are installed in their offices. Technology driven initiatives to…