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Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late April, 2022 A Case Study April 2022. As case numbers dwindle down and mask mandates are removed, distance orders relaxed and days in quarantine no longer a “thing”, it was time to start trickling back in to the...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Early April, 2022 The experiment Way back when Covid was sweeping through our lives for the first time, we had no idea what to expect. We were sent home in large numbers, teams pulled apart and projects implemented in a...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late March 2022 What’s a “Workation”? It was bound to happen: the Workation. Even during peak Covid, travel was still possible. Most companies have extended work-at-home measures and the urge to get away from home,...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Early March 2022 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi first described what’s known as a state of “flow” in 1990, as a particular state of consciousness where we feel and perform our best; completely immersed in an activity. Ego,...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late February 2022 As we come out of lockdown and enter the Post-Covid period in our history, listening to what we need is more important than ever. Good listening campaigns are based on many levels: the “Listen and...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, February 2022 Beyond Succession Planning In any organization, people come and go. Even the best companies have employee churn, and until now, no algorithm has been invented that can successfully predict who will leave...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, late January 2022 The Many-headed “Hybrid” Hydra We’ve gone back and forth for months now. How do we go back to work “when all this is over”? Do we mandate a full physical return? Do we go fully remote? Adopt a...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, January 2022 Remember those first few weeks, months, at a new job? How lost and useless you might have felt? Overwhelmed with new information, hundreds of names to remember, a raft of new tools, platforms, processes and...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late December 2021 Another year comes to a close. If we look at our exact moment in history right now, we are in the second year of a Global Pandemic, and nearly at the end of the alphabet soup of Covid variants. We are...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, December 2021 Gallup recently revealed that only 31% of the US working population describe themselves as engaged. The least engaged were leaders and mid-level managers[i]. The Great Resignation is here and it’s...
An organization with a flipped org chart is one where the people doing the talking and ideation are the same ones in the field interacting with the customer. The people doing the listening and implementing are the leaders. The traditional, top-down org chart is...
Keeping employees happy and not quitting is now a matter of business survival. Surveys still work; provided something is actually done afterwards. Five tips on making employee engagement surveys work. Fiona Passantino, October 2021. Engagement. Another email in your...
