Why after billions of dollars invested in employee engagement are most organisations still struggling to fully engage people? My short answer is we are drowning in BS!

1. BS Free
Workplaces
a manifesto
by Ian
Berry
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2. As a speaker and panelist at several
conferences lately one question
from audiences has dominated.
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3. “With all the focus on employee
engagement why is actually
engaging employees still a
challenge for most
organisations?”
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4. My short answer is
because we are
drowning
in BS
for my seven other answers please email me and I will send
you my short white paper ian@changingwhatsnormal.com
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5. Answer 7 I have found to be foundational to all
success in organisations and foundational to all
the other actions.
We need a shared-view about
where we are (reality)
where we're going (possibility)
why we're going there (purpose)
how we will get there (strategy)
who will do what and when (execution)
how we will know we are on track (milestones and lead
measures)
how we will behave along the way (values)
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6. It is easy to live in an either/or yours/mine world.
Either
Or
Yours
Mine
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7. The reality is we can, if we choose to, live in three worlds,
yours, mine, and ours.
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8. To get a shared-view
we must first
eliminate BS
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9. Did you know that
87% of the problems
in your workplace will
be gone when you
remove the BS from
your business
relationships?
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10. The greatest BS in my view
is our views about people
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11. My manifesto
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12. “The greatest nonsense, the biggest load of codswallop,
the BS that is permeating most workplaces
is seeing and treating humans as numbers, overheads,
expenses, resources, assets, or capital.
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13. My reason for being is to change this because
we are none of these things.
We are, every single one of us, a oneof-a-kind human being.
When we are treated as such we respond in
remarkable ways.
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14. Creating workplaces free of BS is often
hard, emotionally draining, exhausting work.
We encounter self-serving, greedy and as
yet unenlightened folk who think life is all
about them. We run into fear, mediocrity
and massive resistance.
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15. For these reasons I can’t say I have loved every minute
of my work since I began my quest in 1991.
What I do love, with an abiding passion, is
the results. I particularly love the defining
moments I observe every week, often unexpected,
usually a surprise to the person, when their light goes
on and someone is finally home.
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16. There is nothing on earth as
magnificent as a human being fully alive.
When we remove BS,
people come alive.
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17. In workplaces where people have come alive:
People feel valued, fulfilled, and loved.
Values are lived.
Value as perceived by others is delivered to
all stakeholders including our planet.
Numbers are seen for what they are, results,
not reasons.
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18. Every business should make a profit.
There is nothing evil about money.
How we make it and what we do with it is what matters.
Profit is not a reason though for being in business,
rather a result of being good at business.
Our reason for being in business is about
how we have personally chosen to serve humanity.
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19. The trouble with BS about people is
that we have become used to
counting the wrong things.
Millions of people feeling that they
don’t count is the sad consequence.
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20. At the heart of all the world’s troubles
is seeing people as things, as means to
an end, rather than as beings
who can take us far beyond
our wildest dreams.
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21. I am in the business of increasing profits
without hurting people or our planet.
Will you join me?
Find out more here if you are visiting
one of my websites or visit
www.ianberry.biz
www.changingwhatsnormal.com
www.enhancingtheirgifts.org
or simply call me on +61 418 807 898
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