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The Research On ROI Of Employee Engagement

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Several studies over the past few years reiterate the return on investment (ROI) of strategy-driven employee engagement programs, confirming the importance of an engaged workforce on bottom-line results. The 2009/2010 Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt) communications study found that companies that are highly effective communicators had 47% higher total returns to shareholders over the last five years compared with firms that are the least effective communicators.

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Change Is Inevitable - Failure Is Optional

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Change is inevitable – failure is optional. What’s YOUR plan? As the old saying goes: “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” Individuals (and organizations) have only two alternatives: get better or get worse, improve or decay. And it’s a constant battle. Our choice is to manage this ongoing process and improve the things that can be improved, or ignore the process and decay.

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Use Seven Questions To Stress-Test Your Strategy

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From the November 2010 edition of the Harvard Business Review comes an insightful article "Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask" by Robert Simons. His assertion? You can conduct a "stress-test" on your strategy by asking tough questions about your business, which can identify confusion, inefficiency, and weaknesses in your strategy and its implementation.

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