Techno Finance and Executive Diary...

Friday, August 31, 2007

Flexibility leads to Engagement leads to Productivity leads to Profit leads to pay rises for all!

People talk about the tools that are now available to build your employer brand externally but it is also about the effect on talent internally. Talent outside work have the ability to connect, collaborate, join communities - it is shaping their life experiences. To engage people you need to be able to deliver an employment experience that at least matches if not exceed their expectations.

Think about the tools that people use outside work, think about what that is telling you about how to engage people internally. Here are some terms and how you can use it to attract talent to your very personal leadership brand

1. User Generated Content - At work, do you give them freedom to think and create for themselves? Do you TRUST them to create?
2. Community - At work do you find and attract people of similar values? Do you allow them to interact, to share stories, to collaborate on ideas? Do you actively encourage a community feel.
3. Visual and Audio - People are used to receiving information now in short, fun ways - are you embracing this technology that appeals to their senses, in your communications?
4. Micro Information - People are now used to IM, texting, to Twitter, to short videos etc They receive and give short messages, small chunks of information. Have you evolved your progress reports etc to mirror the way people feel comfortable receiving/giving information?
5. Join the Conversation - People expect to be able to comment, be free to express their opinion, that is normal...that is expected. Expression does not mean lack of respect, it means two way respect.

Your leadership brand depends on leadership line extensions! You need to flex your style to each team member...not your values, but the way you interact. Flexibility of style can engage different generations, different personality types.....Why, should you be flexible? Because
Flexibility leads to Engagement leads to Productivity leads to Profit leads to pay rises for all!

Labels: human resource

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