EEA – THE BLOG
Why Both Marketers and HR Should Welcome Analytics
A lot of people feel a certain unease about analytics, including the EEA’s Social Media Editor Paul Hebert, who is an active blogger on human resources and Principle of his own consulting firm. In a recent blog post, Why I don’t Really Like the Whole Analytics and Big Data Thing in HR, he raises some […]
The Real Reason Why Engagement Remains Low
We always enjoy Mark Crowley’s posts. As a long-time advocate for employee engagement, and with a previous career in the investment business, his insights always catch our attention. One of his most recent posts highlights the fundamental issue facing the engagement field: developing and implementing a formal engagement strategy that addresses all of the levers […]
More Positive Trends for the Enterprise Engagement Field
Two articles on the Engagement Strategies Media portal at Enterpriseengagement.org particularly got our attention. One notes that Glassdoor.com says Engagement Manager is now the fourth-hottest profession, with an average annual pay of $125,000. A lot of these jobs involve customer engagement at big companies, but many also involve human resources and community engagement. Just the […]
Engagement World: The Engagement How-To Conference and Expo, April 25-28, Orlando
This year’s conference marks a major milestone in the expansion of the field of Enterprise Engagement, which helps organizations achieve concrete goals by fostering the proactive involvement of all of the people critical to business success. Registration is now open — the EEA’s Engagement University registration includes free access to the E2MA Red Diamond Congress […]
The Engagement Word Muddle
The Work Human movement…B Corporations…the Engagement movement…Conscious Capitalism…Emotional Connectivity. These are phrases used by various organizations to promote a common theme: the importance of people in business. The WorkHuman movement was launched recently by Globoforce, a leading recognition company, which is now holding an annual conference under that theme. B Corporations is a concept developed […]
France: The Engagement Paradox
Anyone who has visited France lately and keeps up on the country’s politics cannot but be amazed at the country’s engagement paradox. On the one hand, France’s investment in infrastructure puts the U.S. to shame – the average state of the country’s highways and secondary roads far surpasses that of the U.S. All major cities […]
The Pope’s Message and Enterprise Engagement
While we proudly lay claim to our role as one of earliest proponents of a formal field focused on Enterprise Engagement, we did not originally envisage it as a social movement. Likewise, while most of the corporations long dedicated to what we call Enterprise Engagement without calling it that – companies like Big Y, Chick […]
What’s in a Name? Everything – Based on Recent NY Times Column
The New York Times continues its recent focus on highlighting the importance of the human side of capitalism. This past week it featured (on the cover of its Sunday News in Review section) an article entitled, “Rethinking Work” written by Barry Schwartz, a psychology professor at Swarthmore College, based on his upcoming book, Why We […]
Amazon and the Bezos Leadership Experiment
Several weeks ago we posted a news insight article on Tony Hsieh’s bold experiment with holacracy at Zappos.com, a division of Amazon. The New York Times’ recent account of the culture at Amazon.com (see “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” ) highlights an entirely different approach to management at the parent company. […]
Hay Group and the Engagement Talent Challenge
When a company the caliber of Hay Group says there’s a talent shortage in the emerging engagement space, that’s a problem for Hay Group and others, but an opportunity as well. See Hay Group: Engagement Creates Talent Challenge. For those not familiar with Hay Group, it’s one of the world’s blue chip consulting firms, with […]
The EEA Social Footprint
