Engagement, Alignment and Culture, Oh My!

Saturday I wrote a post about engagement - how engaging employees will reduce unscheduled absences (you can read it here). At one level, absences are an important issue. On the other hand, engagement is far more powerful than that.

Consider this quotation from the Gallup Poll, 2005:

"Exceptional performance occurs when employees are aligned with the culture and the culture is aligned with the strategy."

Now consider what I thought after I read the previous quotation:

"Engagement occurs when employees are aligned with the culture and the culture is aligned with the strategy."

Let me put it another way . . .

"Get your culture aligned with a meaningful strategy, then get employees aligned with that culture and you will have highly engaged employees. The result? Exceptional performance."

(Thanks to The Tom Peters Times, November 2006 issue for the quotation).

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