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Scotland, Wales, London — And a Message Managers Need to Hear
I am very excited to be spending next week in Scotland, Wales, and London to do keynote speeches and coaching based on my latest book PROACTIVE Problem Solving. I look forward to the events and for connecting with friends I’ve made over the past thirty years of...
Sleep Your Way To Solutions to Your Problems
Scientists at the University of Lübeck in Germany have found for the first time that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day. Volunteers were 3 times more likely to successfully solve a series of math problems than than sleep...
A System for Real-Time Measurement of Employee Engagement
THE SITUATION - The benefits of increasing employee engagement are well understood: decreased absenteeism, decreased safety incidents, decreased employee turnover, increased profitability, increased productivity and sales. However the existing system for measurement...
How Do You Know Your Team Members & Customers are Engaged
Petar Ilchovski and I serving Dexter at Joe Borrow Foundation Event I observed the power of engagement by team members and customers last weekend. Petar and I I spent last weekend supporting the Joe Borrow Foundation’s golf event. On Friday night we served...
Stories of Victory from Stopping the Stupid
Stopping the Stupid is becoming a rallying cry at organizations who are activating their team members and managers to confront the small yet frequent flaws in work systems that get in the way of personal and organizational success. Here’s a just a couple...
A Simple Way to Energize Your Mindset
The adventure of life can exhaust and excite you. As it turns out, daily physical exercise may be one of the best ways to excite and engage your body, mind, and spirit. Research finds that adults who work out regularly are more successful than their couch-potato...
From Passive Acceptance to Proactive Action
Forty years ago I founded the Eureka! Ranch with a focus on inventing BIG IDEAS for new products or services. This remains a foundation of our work. However today leaders are also asking us to help them double their level of employee engagement in PROACTIVE Problem...
How to Reinvent Your Life, As You Ride The Ups & Downs
Will Holder, my Great Grandfather, would understand the chaos of today’s marketplace. His sailmaking business in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, went through many changes. As the age of sailing ships declined, he developed new opportunities for custom...
How SUNLIGHT can help you think quicker, smarter and more creatively!
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer THANK YOU - because of your supportMy PROACTIVE Problem Solving BookIs #4 on Amazon My goal with this newsletter is to provide you with ideas and insights for how you can ignite employee engagement in PROACTIVE Problem Solving of...
How to Get Employees to ENGAGE with PROACTIVE Problem Solving
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer THANK YOU - because of your supportMy PROACTIVE Problem Solving BookIs #4 on Amazon 75% of managers report that it is difficult to get employees proactively engaged in continuous improvement. And 44% of managers feel engagement...