This quote sounds to me like a roundabout way of saying you need to be engaged to get others to be engaged. And since engagement is one of the big issues in the workplace these days, management – leaders, managers, and supervisors, must be more engaged with their business and employees. Actively. In plain sight. Modeling engaged behavior like being interested, asking questions, encouraging communications, coaching to improve understanding and performance, building consensus and teams, and reinforcing it with feedback and recognition. Looking at all that, it seems like a bit much; but it’s really what you want your employees doing among themselves, discovering opportunities to improve process, performance, and productivity. And seeing how their engagement helps the business reach its objectives and be more successful. That’s a leadership challenge: to embed this stuff in the workplace culture so it becomes self-motivating and -sustaining. Start small – walking around, engaging in conversations, feeding your curiosity. And let this grow and build interest and acceptance from there. Getting everyone bought in and engaged. It’ll take a plan. Get your peeps engaged in developing that too. It’s how successful companies remain competitive. So, at the risk of sounding overly simplistic, get engaged in getting this started today.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 – 1944): American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.
Read her story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach
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