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70% Of Your Employees Don't Want To Be There Because Of You

70% Of Your Employees Don’t Want To Be There Because Of You

“A disengaged employee is merely the personification of a disengaged leader.” Jim Woods

If you were losing about 70% of your gas as your car sat in the office parking lot what would you do? If customers were absconding with 70% of your revenue what would be your reaction? You should seriously be just as alarmed with the lost of engaged employees. Because, if we are speaking honestly, they are…

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David Zinger founded the Employee Engagement Network and is a prolific blog writer on the topic of engagement. He visited the UK last year and I attended a workshop led by him entitled 'Think different inside our hives'.   

As well as meeting great people, knocking around ideas with my peers and gaining new insights, I also learned an incredible fact that has stayed with me ever since.    

Not only does a queen bee have the power of life or death over worker bees. The worker bees also have a similar power over the queen.  If unimpressed by the amount of egg laying a queen does, collectivley they will beat their wings till the temperature rises high enough to kill the queen bee.  They then replace her with a new queen.     

What a powerful metaphor for leadership within a company! The dynamic may seem like the power is only top down but if a work force is disengaged, the resulting actions and behaviour can be the 'death' of a leader, or indeed a whole company.

In this TED talk David brings together the fascinating world of bees and the human workforce.   Helping us to learn from the bees to imporve engagement levels at work.  

The result is extraordinary and...well... engaging!   

Well worth the watch when you have 15 mins.     Via youtube.com