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		<title>What Drives You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecting is a personal thing, the essence of being human. Connecting is the fuel that keeps the fire of high engagement burning, and engagement is the great difference maker in peoples’ lives. Lasting engagement is driven by connecting—first connecting with myself, then with others one-on-one, in up close and personal relationships. This thing called ‘connecting’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=557&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Darwin Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. (Darwin) Following is a real-world dilemma, once again using the bell curve. What would you do? You’ve been tasked to research leadership development material for a rather “young” group of leaders in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=547&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bell Curve and Performance Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As it so often does, a conversation on the Employee Engagement Network  has prompted a spinoff here. The topic on the EEN was recognition and engagement. A few factoids from the posting, based on Gallup data from research of 4mil US workers: Number of workers estimated to be extremely negative about work or “actively disengaged”: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=542&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture-Evolution, Revolution? 7-S Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/culture-evolution-revolution-7-s-thoughts-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perf Mgmt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve had some good ‘culture’ conversations on the Employee Engagement Network before. Recently, a poster offered this: Is There Collaboration in Your Culture? The topic just naturally gravitated toward the old dilemma…where does culture come from? How do you change it? I’ve done a little on Change Management here: see Change is OK, Just Don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=536&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Performance Management</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/more-on-performance-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See prior post. Another performance management conversation is taking place now on the EEN, a few excerpts and my thoughts follow. You have to sign up and be a member of the specific group to join the discussion, but at least you can check it out here.   David Marklew started the discussion with this: What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=525&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Management-A Three Legged Stool</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/performance-management-a-three-legged-stool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again…buckets of frantic activity to beat performance management compliance deadlines set by HR. I’m having a good exchange of ideas on performance management initiated by Leslie Allan on the Employee Engagement Network: CIPD Members Say Performance Management Systems Fail to Engage. Just a couple of highlights here, and an invitation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=522&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your  &#8220;One Thing&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/whats-your-one-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Slickers Dialogue: Metro Man Mitch (Billy Crystal) and Cowpoke Curly (Jack Palance) Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? This. [holds up one finger] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don&#8217;t mean shit. Mitch: But, what is the &#8220;one thing?&#8221; Curly: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=517&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good System, Bad System</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/good-system-bad-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work for a start-up manufacturing operation. “What?!” you say? Didn’t know there was such a thing anymore? We’re in the wind energy business, enough said. Our location is 3 years old, we have recently ramped up to several hundred people and counting. We’ve had so much to learn with new design, processes, and equipment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=512&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Primers for Engaging Conversations</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/primers-for-engaging-conversations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following is posted at the 4,000-member Employee Engagement Network. It is an invitation to contribute to an e-book, topic described below. Go check it out and if you aren’t part of the EEN community, come on in! Sign up and contribute.  High on the list of a leader, manager, or supervisor&#8217;s daily work should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=508&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outside-the-Box Engagement</title>
		<link>http://craigalan.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/outside-the-box-engagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engagement has everything to do with connecting, a couple of examples follow. This is relevant to “the Greater Good” to which I have a deep personal connection. I play a little music on the side, with a couple of good friends. We’ve played anywhere from horse barns to islands to state fairs. Think (very) poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigalan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7168708&amp;post=480&amp;subd=craigalan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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