March, 2011

Michael Lee Stallard

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Employee Engagement Network Webinar and Slides

Michael Lee Stallard

Employee Engagement and Connection from David Zinger on Vimeo. Yesterday David Zinger and I held a webinar on Employee Engagement and Connection. You can see a recording of the webinar above and here is a link to the slides used during the webinar. The webinar was hosted by the Employee Engagement Network , a 3,500 member online community founded by David.

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At Google, Starbucks (and Life Outside of Work), Success = Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

The New York Times has had a number of great articles related to connection and how it leads to success at work and in life. In an article about what Google discovered from Project Oxygen, a rigorous study of its successful managers, Laszlo Bock, the leader of the study stated: “In the Google context, we’d always believed that to be a manager, particularly on the engineering side, you need to be as deep or deeper a technical expert than the people who work for you…It turns out that

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World Visions Connects!

Michael Lee Stallard

One of the relief organizations my wife and I support is World Vision. These people are AMAZING and they do remarkable work that Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times raved about in a recent column he wrote. What I love about World Vision is that they are a force for connection. They connect their employees, volunteers and donors with people in desperate need around the world.

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Employee Engagement on HRIQ’s “HR Today” Podcast Series

Michael Lee Stallard

Jason Pankau and I recently did an interview on employee engagement and connection cultures with Alexandra Guadagno of Human Resources IQ. The interview was part of the HR Today Podcast Series. You can hear the podcast and download it on iTunes at this link.

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New Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great

Michael Lee Stallard

The New York Times recently had an article entitled “ What Makes a Hospital Great &# that described new research concluding a hospital’s culture and the quality of relationships were the most important factors determining patient outcomes. This finding is consistent with our research that concluded leaders must be intentional about achieving both “task excellence&# and “relationship excellence&# in order to achieve sustainable superior performance.

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Employee Engagement Webinar: The Power of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

David Zinger and I will be doing a 45 minute webcast on the power of connection to boost employee engagement. David is host of the Employee Engagement Network. During the webinar, we will include: a five minute presentation on connection; 3 poll questions for participants; dialogue between David and your’s truly; invited text questions from the audience; and, 3 tips for connection action.

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Virtually Attend HCI’s National Human Capital Summit

Michael Lee Stallard

This afternoon I’ll be speaking at the National Human Capital Summit in Atlanta. You can attend the event online by registering at this link. Online attendees will be able to see my presentation as well as those of consultant and author Gary Hamel, Liane Hornsey of Google, Dr. John Fleming of Gallup, author Dan Pink, Vineet Nayar CEO of HCL Technologies and Suzanne Gordon of SAS Institute.