by Jason Lauritsen | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
A post titled “Why Happiness Doesn’t Matter” showed up on my radar this week. It’s the typical “happiness isn’t engagement” debate frequently used to stir up a reaction. But this article made me angry. The author, a startup...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Note: Today I’m sharing a post written by my friend and fellow keynote speaker, Jeff Havens. It’s about one of my favorite topics, relationships. I think you will enjoy it. You can also learn more about Jeff at the end of the post. There are a lot of...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, early in my management career, I had an employee who came into my office and said these words to me. Actually, it wasn’t quite that nice. Here’s what she actually said. “You are being a real a**hole lately.” And she was right....
by Jason Lauritsen | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have a confession to make. For years, I’ve been arguing that you can’t “buy” employee engagement with compensation. I was pretty certain of this fact. I’d even gotten pretty skilled at explaining away the low scores on pay questions...
by Jason Lauritsen | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
The longer I spend studying employee engagement and managing other people, the more I notice how we love to overcomplicate things. Engaging employees isn’t nearly as complicated as many would have us believe. As managers, it often boils down to consistently...
by Jason Lauritsen | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Make work human. This has been my professional purpose for over a decade now. I’m encouraged by all of the conversation recently about creating more human work experiences. I hope that it isn’t simply the latest marketing strategy, a new way to package the...
