Engaged Organizations

Articles posted by Rachel Happe

In a world of robots, automation, and AI, employees’ work is changing. Employees will transact less and discuss more; complete fewer tasks and spend more time reflecting; create less and design more. The uniquely human value employees can offer in a world of automation is building trusting relationships, caring for others, facilitating alignment, recognizing opportunities, creating

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A workplace community program is responsible for building and managing communities within an organization, such as employee resource groups, diversity and inclusion groups, learning communities, communities of practice, affinity groups, and innovation networks.

Community networks provide compelling benefits to organizations in a range of areas including communications efficiency, culture change, speed of innovation, productivity, and employee retention.

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Engagement is Complex Engagement is a spectrum of psychological intensity and is useful to broadly discuss how active, interested, and committed people are. That vague general definition was all fine… until we started trying to measure engagement. Measuring feelings is always a dicey business and depending on the methodology and tools used, the approaches vary

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Blog Post: Leadership of Belonging

We get leadership confused with a few different characteristics; power, management, vision, influence, and impact. Those are all different things that can co-occur but require the ability to negotiate the inherent tension between leadership vs. control, power vs. influence, and vision vs. impact.

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Leadership and the Coherence Dividend

Most of us have worked with individuals in leadership roles who say all the right things but leave us feeling unsettled. We can’t always pinpoint why and, if you are like me, you might assume it’s just you. We tend to shrug it off, ignore our gut reaction, and then not think too much about

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