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Everyday Employee Engagement for Organizational Leaders and Personnel at All Levels
An Integrated Workbook and Double CD Program
Everyone knows that employee engagement is important. Engaged people are more productive, have less absenteeism, and provide better customer service compared to their disengaged counterparts. But many organizations pursue strategies through complicated programs that can take years to implement.
Engagement doesn’t have to take years -- it can occur in minutes!
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HOW TO ENGAGE PEOPLE WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE TIME is an integrated double CD and workbook program that teaches the secrets of instant employee engagement and how to engage others, even when there are many demands on you.
Our Program Will Teach You:
• Three rules of thumb that help you engage individuals and groups
• How to create interest in your ideas even when people are busy
• Identifying when disengagement occurs and how to turn it around
• How to transform longwinded presentations into conversations
• How to create meetings where no one looks at their Blackberry
This program includes daily activities, CD transcripts, highlight sheets for easy reference, mind maps that make the most important concepts east to remember, and a special report about conducting engaging meetings.
HOW TO ENGAGE PEOPLE WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE TIME is designed for entrepreneurs, for-profit and not-for-profit leaders, and employees at all levels. Consultants, coaches, and trainers will find this program to be a valuable addition when working with their clients.
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You've done your engagement survey, now what?
Despite the best of intentions, surveys and programs often disengage the very people you seek to engage. Many consulting groups are full of trainings to follow up on their surveys, we specialize in hands on, practical, results oriented solutions gathered from 30 years in the field.
The Axelrod Group’s Everyday Engagement Tools provide leaders with skills and tools they can use the very next hour. It respects the busy work environment of today without sacrificing the quality work that has been our trademark for 30 years. This toolkit is available in a variety of formats to fit your demanding work environment. Please contact us for more information.
How to Engage People When You Don’t Have Time is perfect for today’s busy work environments. People are overwhelmed with e-mails, texts, calls, and interruptions at work. These technologies can either increase or decrease engagement. It all depends on developing your organization’s skills. Our CD set and workbook will give you simple easy to use tools to start without the pain of long off-site training.
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The Birth of Clockman...
Sometimes our best learning comes from our biggest challenges.
Recently, we were asked to create a workshop for a global aerospace company. We had been working with this organization for several years, and had facilitated a number of highly successful interventions there. One employee engagement program improved employee satisfaction in this 14,000-person organization by 25%.
Many changes had taken place since we began our work: new people had joined the organization, the urgency of new product introductions had people working extraordinary hours, and the excitement of past successes had faded. Everyone agreed it was time for the next steps.
Several weeks later, Dick Axelrod met with our client, Maria, along with the design team. Dick was pleased with the work and excited to receive feedback. What he was not prepared for their reaction. When he presented the outline, everyone listened politely and nodded in agreement.
Maria who had always been a big supporter of our work was the first to speak. She said, “This is great, but it's too ambitious. We'll never get people to give up three days to participate. You must realize the people we want to come to this program are working eighty hours a week!” Everyone around the table quickly joined the chorus.
Dick was stunned. He thought to himself, “If they were really committed, time would not be an issue. People always make choices about what is important to them.”
A few days later, he had important insight.
What if instead thinking "they would make time if they were really committed," he said to himself “They know the benefits of engagement, and time is a problem for them. The real question is: how might we make it easier for people to do the things they know will help the organization’s productivity and they want to do?”
With these insights in mind, we set out to design a one‑and‑half‑hour workshop that would provide people with positive experiences engaging with others from the get‑go. Actions they could do in very brief periods of time.
This workshop could not be some watered‑down version of the original three‑day workshop. It had to be a robust experience designed for people who don't have time. Thus, How to Engage People When You Don't Have Time was born. A high‑energy one‑and‑a half‑hour workshop for people who want to engage others, but don't have time to do it. The title spoke to the dilemma people experience: They know engagement is important, and they just can't seem to find time to do it in today's hurried ever changing work world.
Dick presented the revised outline; instead of politeness he received enthusiastic support. Everyone loved the idea.
The organization posted a notice for this workshop on the company's internal website, more than two hundred people responded. The very same people who didn't have time to attend the original three‑day version showed up for this workshop. In fact, the response was so positive we had to conduct several subsequent workshops to accommodate those who couldn't attend the first one.
This proved the point: people want to increase their engagement skills, but the material had to be presented in a way that recognized the time pressure participants were experiencing and thus with the help of our wonderful graphic and web designer Bob von Elgg our walking engagement clock was born.
We at The Axelrod Group know that many organizations either can’t afford big expensive employee engagement programs or don’t have time for even a half day workshop. How to engage people when you don’t have time will start you and your organization down the road to success.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Video Presentation
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Get Dick Axelrod's
complimentary e-book, "How to get people to care about what you find important."
This e-book has two parts:
Part One identifies three faulty assumptions many people have about getting people to care.
Part Two provides three rules of thumb for creating conditions that might get people to care.
"Getting others to care about what you care about is important in all parts of life."
~ Dick Axelrod, Founder of The Axelrod Group
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