by Jamie Notter | Mar 28, 2020 | Change, Engagement, Managing People
Normally, as a speaker, the spring is a very busy season for me, with lots of travel for conferences and events. But there is very little, as you all well know, that is “normal” right now. Not only is everyone postponing and cancelling events, employees are now...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 1, 2019 | Engagement
When I do keynotes about employee engagement, I usually show this slide that documents the absolutely abysmal progress we’ve made on employee engagement over the last 20 years (the numbers are from Gallup). We’ve spent billions on engagement, by the way, yet we’ve...
by Jamie Notter | May 17, 2019 | Engagement
I was in Dallas this week speaking at an internal meeting at a large corporation. The session was on “Employee Engagement in the Real World,” and during the session I was talking about how Maddie and I define “deep success.” One of the core arguments in our latest...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 8, 2019 | Engagement, Learning
Okay, not ALL benchmark data are useless, but they are when it comes to culture and employee engagement. In our recent book on engagement, we have a whole chapter dedicated to gathering the right data, and we make the case for basically ignoring culture and engagement...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 8, 2019 | Books and Reading, Engagement
By now you should be aware that I’m kind of outraged that collectively we’ve spent billions of dollars on engagement surveys over the last several years, yet we haven’t improved our engagement scores. I think the metrics are a big piece of the problem. This whole...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 5, 2019 | Engagement
The biggest reason our efforts to improve employee engagement over the last 20 years have been a horrible failure might surprise you: it’s because we’ve been trying to make people happy. Our collective image of an engaged employee is someone who likes coming to work,...
