Your Final Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Relevance in Retirement!

Congratulations! You have provoked a new day within your organization. You now have a more meaningful relationship with your people. New employees feel cared for and trusted. Existing employees now have a new sense of engagement, and everyone feels more important and meaningful to the organization. You are now ready for the biggest and [...]

2020-10-14T15:39:49+00:00January 23rd, 2020|Categories: Blog, Culture|

Your Sixth Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Recognize and Reward Engagement

When you begin to see changes in your organization resulting from the recommendations in this blog series, it’s time for the sixth step in developing an innovative climate: Begin a recognize and reward campaign. So far, you’re doing it all "rite." You care about employees, so they care about the company. You trust them [...]

2020-10-14T15:51:14+00:00December 31st, 2018|Categories: Blog, Culture|

Your Fourth Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Listen

(Don't mess this part up!) In the meaningful relationship puzzle, you (the leader) have everything to gain and everything to lose. If you invest the time to implement an Ask program (the third step) without simultaneously implementing a Listen program, you have wasted your time. Employees will quickly decide to not spend their intellectual [...]

2020-10-14T17:06:53+00:00June 29th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Culture|Tags: |

Your Second Step Toward Meaningfulness: Trust

If you’re following this series on creating an innovative climate through meaningful relationships, this post presents the second step in the relationship building process. The first step set the stage for employees to care about the company—a result of you caring first. The next step involves getting them to think about the company through [...]

2020-10-14T16:02:50+00:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Culture|

An Innovative Climate Begins with Caring about Employees

The world is much more social today than just a few years ago. Many people enjoy the phenomenon. Even if you don’t quite get the technology, you can’t argue that there are more social creatures in the workplace than recluses. So, transitioning to a more socially conscious environment will help you develop more meaningful [...]

2020-10-14T17:06:07+00:00November 24th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Culture|Tags: |

They’re Ready, Are You?

“Ready” is the correct word for them. But, it’s not the correct word for you. As a leader in your organization, you must be more than ready. Maybe your word should be “committed.” You are committed to genuinely believing in the collective genius and the power of a full-thinking organization. There is a big [...]

2020-10-14T17:05:25+00:00September 7th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Culture|

Simple Steps to Creating an Innovative Climate in Your Organization

Frequently, I am asked about innovation and why our company is so special in this regard. Almost as frequently, people are surprised by my answer. There’s no IP. There’s no secret sauce. It’s simply the result of our company’s belief that developing meaningful relationships with employees allows us to tap into the collective genius [...]

2020-10-14T16:12:13+00:00June 26th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Culture|Tags: , , , , |
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