We choose to include ideas and their actions in our life if and only

if they are important enough to us. What is it that will make ideas

and their actions important enough?

Imagine working for a company. It is well managed, the people are

fun to be around the work is enjoyable. Business ethics are strong,

you, like all the team, feel respected and valued. You would go out

of your way to get the result, since you know the directors and

governance of the company would go out of their way for you.

Is this enough to ‘engage’ with this company? Yes, it is. Could you

be more ‘engaged’?

Now imagine the dark side. Things get difficult, the company asks

for help, and everybody agrees a pay cut so no one gets laid off.

The company gets sold. You disagree with some marketing deci-

sions as the company fights to build sales. Now, your personal

finances are not as solid, you have some concerns about what is

going on and while it is still a good place of work, you are facing a

different reality.

Engagement with the company remains solid, but with reservations.

Aiming to build own success is something that will always serve

you

The most important thing in your life is your health and welfare. If

that goes, then all those whom one loves and whom supports will

lose the quality of that support.

In other writing I show how our daily activities are linked to the

national economy by doing our bit at work (posts at LinkedIn, and

the book Why Work). Your success at work is precisely doing the

ideal actions agreed in your role to the fullest extent and standard

you are able. But, one acts out the actions not for the company, but

for ourselves. Each morning, when one looks in the mirror, the

pride swells knowing the person looking back did a solid day

yesterday, delivered the ideal actions agreed to a good standard, and

in so doing served oneself, served the company, served the team,

served the team leader, whom one likes, and served society.

Engagement is our commitment to our life

We engage with ourselves and in doing so we engage with life.

Our engagement with doing the ideal actions at work to serve our

own success is exactly the same as engagement with our grand-

child, or with the darts team at the club, or the energy in the read-

ing group, or rebuilding the bathroom. We do things to the level

we set and agree first with ourselves so that we feel good about

our involvement.

Work is part of our life, not something separate from it, but some-

thing central to it, and from which one can draw life satisfaction.

We engage with life, part of which is engaging with our own

success at work.

Review again the table below from newsletter 13. Three key

variables define the structure of the organizations, the goal cascade

within includes the organization structure and mapping the strate-

gy onto the market, the ideal actions agreed to offer the greatest

chance of greatest KPI success, and the clarity of the role specifi-

cations.

The organization design is then integrated with the psychology.

People make the choice to be successful in their work life, they

accept the role specifications as defining success in their job,

they agree the ideal actions offer greatest chance of greatest suc-

cess, engage by actively adopting the role specifications in mind,

building game plans with associated positive emotions that drive

behavior at work and actively visualize themselves acting out the

ideal actions, they build clarity in game plans, making their efforts

more effective. By choosing to be successful, accepting and agree-

ing the role specifications as the means of personal success, and

actively engaging in mind with game plans, people build signifi-

cant ‘intrinsic motivation’, exactly as exhibited by any sports

person seeking to win the game. They are willing to go the extra,

to fight, not for anything outside themselves, but for their own

pride, and personal success... they want to feel good about them-

selves. The intrinsic motivation is then actively supported by the

team leader who ensure people are enjoying the day, do what they

need do and have fun while doing it.

Engagement is attaching positive emotions to those ideas and actions we choose to

include in our life

The immediate practical act of engagement is visualization of ideal actions with no negative

emotions

Newsletter 14 Redefining engagement Newsletter topics

1. Seeking new thinking.

2. How to double profits.

3. Goal—action.

4. Linking staff action to

strategy.

5. Human performance

driving results.

6. HR as rollout of strate-

gy.

7. Behavioral structure of

the organization.

8. Understanding human

psychology.

9. Linking people to be-

havioral structure.

10. Perfect human perfor-

mance.

11. Performance manage-

ment moving actual toward perfect perfor-mance.

12. Built in flexibility.

13. A scientifically proven

balanced solution to human performance as a driver of results.

14. Redefining engage-

ment.

15. Culture.

16. All HR policy changes.

17. Lifting expectation.

18. Redefining leadership.

19. Redefining manage-

ment.

20. Why has it not been

done before?

21. Stop. Reflect. Chose

and improve.

22. Why can’t we do it

ourselves?

23. Mind of the CEO.

24. HR as the ‘right hand’

of the CEO.

25. Building a ‘verbal

ready’ Executive.

26. Understanding human

motivation.

27. Building and imple-

menting an integrated motivation policy.

28. Human capital.

29. Finding and develop-

ing talent.

30. Choosing better ideas.

Reading these newsletters you will gain new insight into how to manage the link between people and your organization so that both benefit by increased results, greater success, increased profits, more fulfilling work, and greater satisfaction.

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Organization. Business plan for period.

1. Goal cascade, KPIs in every role.

2. Ideal actions derived from KPIs.

3. Role specifica-tions.

Psychology

4. Choice. 5. Engagement 6. Acceptance. 7. Agreement. 8. Clarity. 9. Motivation.

Fundamental is ideas in mind with action arising from those ideas given momentum by associated emotions.

Management factor. 1. Improve the goal cascade. 2. Sharpen ideal actions. 3. Clarify role specification, integrate busi-

ness processes, operations policy. 4. Review choice of each person to be suc-

cessful at work. 5. Review commitment of person to actively

seek work life success. 6. Review with person their acceptance of

the role specification. 7. Review with person they agree that doing

the ideal actions offers greatest chance of greatest success.

8. Review with person they are clear on the role specification, and have a clear game plan in mind.

9. Review with person they have no negative feelings about doing ideal actions. And that they feel supported by their team leader in the striving to deliver the game plan each day.

Practical actions the team leader can take that will improve one or more of the factors that underpin high quality performance.

Cultural audits.

• Focus. Audits

1, 6, 7.

• Accuracy.

Audits 2, 3, 8.

• Commitment.

Audits 4, 5, 7.

• Leadership.

Audits 9, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

• Business

processes. Audits 3, 7, 8.

From the audit result, the team leader decides action on the factors judged to improve the audit result for next time.