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Effective and sustainable employee engagement and growth is critical to success in the workplace, marketplace and recruiting space. This is especially true for competitive and talent-starved industries, including most of professional services.

Most leaders agree that employee recruitment and retention is the #1 issue facing us today. At the same time, employee growth and development is our talents’ top priority – especially in professional services.

How to Survive the Next Year, the Next Recession, and the Ongoing Reset of the Workplace, Marketplace and Recruiting Space – Part 3: Building Your Brand

How to Survive the Next Year, the Next Recession, and the Ongoing Reset of the Workplace, Marketplace and Recruiting Space – Part 2: Building Your People

Scale Your Business, Not Your People: How to Survive the Next Year, the Next Recession, and the Ongoing Reset of the Workplace, Marketplace and Recruiting Space – Part 1: Building Your Business

We know leaders, managers, and organizations need to work harder and do things differently to create conditions for more effective employee engagement – especially today, but it’s not only about them. As employees, we play an equally vital role.

We generally know and accept that managers have the greatest day-to-day impact on employee engagement. Yet, even our best managers are increasingly pressed and finding it harder to navigate and do right by their clients, their people, their organizations, and themselves.

Whether in an executive or management role, most of what we do today as leaders is not leadership. In a world of always urgent and constant busy, it can seem necessary to rely on our skills to win quarters and rescue projects, but that’s not the only thing needed.

Employee engagement is a powerful determinant of an organization’s success. Employee engagement is also central to the #1 issue facing many industries and organizations today: employee recruitment and retention.