Blog Posts

High Altitude Engagement: How Great Leaders Guide Teams to the Summit

About 18 years ago, I began an athletic journey called “The Seven Summits,” a quest to climb and summit the highest mountain on every continent. Early on in the ascent of my first, Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,740 feet), I realized the uncanny similarities between high altitude mountaineering and an organization’s or leader’s journey to reach the summit of Employee Engagement, which is typically defined as reaching Best-in-Class or Award-winning status (the top 10% of all employers). One of the most striking similarities is in leadership qualities. Pick your expedition leader or manager carefully—it is the single most important factor in determining ...

The Faces of Employee Engagement are Global

My wife and I just spent two weeks in the wonderful country of Croatia. As much as I wanted some downtime during vacation, I could not escape the signs, behaviors, and outcomes produced by the archetypical “faces” of employee engagement. These emblems of engagement were extremely vivid to me for two reasons. First, after dedicating over 25 years of my career to learning about, and helping organizations build employee engagement, I realize that the topic runs deeply through my mind, heart, and lifeblood. Second, employee engagement is global, omnipresent, and most of all, inescapable. There is no doubt you ...