It's a Thing! A Learning Organization!

"It's a thing" is a series that highlights concepts that employers and managers use and sometimes evaluate employees with that they may not be aware.

A learning organization is the business term given to a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself.

It's a Thing: Force Field Analysis

"It's a thing" is a series that highlights concepts that employers and managers use and sometimes evaluate employees with that the average employee may not be aware.

FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS was developed by Kurt Lewin as a tool for understanding what is needed for change to occur. Force field analysis can be applied to organizational change or individual change. 

The concept is quite easy to understand and apply. For any change to occur, there are two kinds of forces at work--driving forces (DF) and resisting forces (RF) (also called restraining or hindering forces). DF are the forces that are attempting to make the change and RF are at work hindering the change.

It's a thing: Employee Engagment

"It's a thing" is a series that highlights concepts that employers and managers use and sometimes evaluate employees with that the average employee may not be aware.

In a training meeting, I learned about employee engagement. Employee engagement is when employees are motivated to contribute to the success of an organization, they give the best of themselves each day, they are committed to the company goals and values, they exhibit a sense of teamwork, while they have an enhanced sense of their own well-being. Employees that are not engaged show the opposite of these qualities. Employee engagement is a quality that modern owners and managers are looking for in their employees. Employees that are engaged rise to the surface of the company and are promoted into the highest positions. Employee engagement is becoming part of the developmental matrix looked to for employee advancement.

After learning about employee engagement, I had an interesting conversation with an employee. I shared with them what I had learn (and was learning) about the benefits of having an engaged workforce and they responded, "I didn't even know it (employee engagement) was a thing." What we both realized was that some managers were measuring their employees on things that they might not even be aware. She went on to tell me, "If I know that my employee wants me to do something or be a certain way, then they should let me know so that I can develop it." I agree! There are many more things that business owners and managers are aware of that the average employee is not.

The primary reason for this blog is to educate employees to what many managers are seeking so that they can become better employees.

Why is employee engagement important?