Trusted Leader Blog

Measuring and improving employee engagement is often revered as the holy grail to improving business performance.  Moderate employee engagement results encourage the C-Suite to pat themselves on the back.   But ask the CEO some truth-seeking questions and they confess that despite good employee engagement levels there are a few problems that are still impacting performance –  employees not being fully challenged, certain leaders unable to harness the collective intelligence of their teams and frustration around constrained expansion plans.

One of the common attributes of companies that have high performance workplace cultures is that they have a clear, well-specified purpose that states both how and why the company makes a positive impact to the world.  It’s their fundamental reason for existence beyond just making money.