How do you measure employee engagement? If you ask the average business owner, CEO or senior manager, they will tell you employee engagement is critical to the success of their organization, yet very few leadership teams prioritize measuring the engagement of their employees on a regular basis. The reality is the level of employee engagement very much parallels the level of health of your organization’s overall culture. If that is in fact the case, how do you impact engagement and subsequently culture in a positive way? I believe it comes down to one simple equation; [Vision Amplification + Leadership Simplification = Culture Rejuvenation] Any breakdown in this equation results in a breakdown of the desired organizational culture. Sometimes the vision from the top isn’t being heard at the bottom. Sometimes, the leadership has been overcomplicated and people are not comfortable or confident in following those leaders. How do you simplify leadership? You re-define it. Leadership is simply this: When a person or group of people you have influence over (either directly or in-directly) believe that you care about them exceedingly more than the process or product they can produce. As a result of that belief, your vision becomes their vision, your goals become their goals, not out of coercion, but out of choice. That’s leadership. If you can amplify your vision and transfer it into leaders that live out this style of leadership, you will change your organization’s culture for the better faster than you can imagine!
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The Culture Equation