Quotes About Engagement

Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits.

Yet a 2017 Gallup poll found that only 3 in 10 employees strongly agree with the statement that their opinions count at work.6 Gallup calculated that by "moving that ratio to six in 10 employees, organizations could realize a 27 percent reduction in turnover, a 40 percent reduction in safety incidents and a 12 percent increase in productivity."7 That's why it's not enough for organizations to simply hire talent.

For knowledge work to flourish, the workplace must be one where people feel able to share their knowledge! This means sharing concerns, questions, mistakes, and half-formed ideas.

Often in meetings, I will ask people when we're discussing an idea, "What did the dissenter say?" The first time you do that, somebody might say, "Well, everybody's on board." Then I'll say, "Well, you guys aren't listening very well, because there's always another point of view somewhere and you need to go back and find out what the dissenting point of view is.

failure of an employee to speak up in a crucial moment cannot be seen. This is true whether that employee is on the front lines of customer service or sitting next to you in the executive board room. And because not offering an idea is an invisible act, it's hard to engage in real-time course correction. This means that psychologically safe workplaces have a powerful advantage in competitive industries.

With survey data from 170 research scientists working in six Irish research centers, the authors showed that trust in top management led to psychological safety, which in turn promoted work engagement.

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

The most powerful story is happening inside your customer's head, a personal narrative of how engaging with your product will transform them into a more powerful, more skillful, more connected version of themselves.

Cause when they're pissed at me, at least they know I'm there," Mackey said. "You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can't do that when someone wants to slug you.

Dad, are you in?" "In the car, yes. In this conversation? Not if you paid me.

The moment someone says, "Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song," your party is over.

Be interested, not interesting.

we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

Any interaction is training. Translation: Every time you have any kind of contact with an animal—when you leave food on the floor, talk to it, pass its enclosure—you are teaching it something whether you mean to or not.

One needs to be briefed before one talks to writers

When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.

The best way of evangelizing is not to tell the potential convert, "Here's what's wrong with your tradition." The best way to evangelize is to show that potential convert, "Here's what's right with my tradition; here's how it prompts toward action; here's how it consoles.

Worship at its best is something that engages not just the mind but the body.

Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Como ler - essa é uma grande questão que vamos encontrando a toda hora nesse mergulho pelos livros essenciais. Ler criticamente é uma das respostas. Significa que não se lê para concordar servilmente em atitude reverente, mas também não se lê para discordar e refutar num eterno desafio.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.