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5 Ways to Engage Employees in Change

Engaging employees in change is essential to ensure that the change initiative is accepted and “sticks.” Consider these five ways to engage employees in your next change initiative.

Get employees involved in shaping the change early on. Ask their opinions via a survey or in focus groups. This enables employees to provide their thoughts, concerns […]

Helping an Employee Achieve Goals

In an earlier post, we shared how to use the GROW Model to coach employees. In this post, let’s look at a mini case study of a manager who utilized the GROW model to help an employee work toward achieving his goal of becoming a supervisor in the organization.

A mini case study

Jane is […]

The Value of Supporting Employees’ Social Good Work

There is great value to both the employee as well as the organization when leadership supports employees’ involvement in social good work within the community. Such involvement provides a number of benefits for both employees and also the organization.

Benefits to Employees

Benefits to the Organization

Personal development opportunities Leadership experience/new skill development […]

Communicate the Value of Change for Your Department

Change Management

The best leaders know that to be successful in implementing change, they must communicate the value of change for their department. This requires ensuring that employees understand why the change is important. Leaders should talk to them about the benefits of the change – not just for the organization and the department, but for the […]

Changing Mindsets

Change Mindsets

Helping Employees Look at Change Differently

Mindset is defined as a set of assumptions held by a group of individuals that is so established that it creates a powerful incentive for the group to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors or choices. (Adapted from Wikipedia.org)

When employees have a fixed mindset they prefer the […]