Frientorship: The Solution To The Employee Engagement Problem | Claudia Williams | TEDxPSU
Are you a zombie at work - just going through the motions, or are you the leader of a team of zombies? If we capture key principles of friendship, mentorship and leadership, we can increase employee engagement, build thriving workplace cultures and end the workplace zombie apocalypse. Relationships matter, and frientorship™ puts people back in the forefront of a winning business strategy.
Claudia founded The Human Zone after spending more than a decade as an attorney representing public, private and non-profit organizations. Claudia provides strategic, HR-based support aimed at transforming leaders and making great places to work. Claudia also developed Frientorship™, an individual and team development model that encompasses key principles of friendship, mentorship and leadership to bring out the best in people, teams and organizations. While working as an attorney, Claudia served as an Adjunct Professor for The Pennsylvania State University, teaching Labor-Management Relations to MPA candidates at the Harrisburg campus. She was named as one of the Central Penn Business Journal’s 25 Women of Influence.
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My first Boss was my Mentor, Friend and Leader, bless her soul. Today I am trying to live the values she taught me in the years I worked with my boss.
Greatly put . Thank you all very much
Amazing. Definitely bringing this video to my workplace.
well said And a good one. Thank u all very much
Good on Employee Engagement. Learnt new word - "Frientorship". Thanks
I just had my first job and this video really help me, thanks a lot Claudia!
Thank you Claudia. I learnt a lot from this video
Great. Practical. Gem.Thanks so much Claudia.
@execcoachclaudia
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Arise!
While the EE/EX topic makes for interesting discussions, there is no proof that transformations occur. For example, how many people would work if they didn't need to survive? Most would pick another way to spend their days. So, where did we come up with the expectation that employees should be engaged? The EE/EX industry continues to perpetuate the need to improve engagement; they collect billions annually in revenue from fanning the engagement flames. Here's a simple truth, there are no meaningful studies, white papers, or even examples of the leading solution providers using their client's business results to support their EE?EX solutions. . It's all about giving HR hope and not about EE/EX transformation. Do the research and find examples of companies harvesting the silly numbers quoted above from EE/EX initiatives. The only winners here are the service providers. The best way to bring on the change everyone wants is to pick vendors who base their fees on the business outcome of their services. Not many of those out there. Also, notice the absence of CEO involvement in the EE/EX area. If they thought there was any upside, they would be involved. Sadly, the optics of doing something in the EE/EX area are sufficient to support the endless attempts at improvement. Everything changes when you attack this with the CEO asking the question and a third party collecting the data and challenging the blockers from the culture, politics, and siloed leaders. Take another look at the Gallup surveys. They make no claim that EE is the cause for their ubiquitous 21% more profitable. Instead, they are only observing that successful companies seem to have more highly engaged employees. The $500 billion loss is beyond silly. Imagine trying to sell that to a board of directors.
Thank you Claudia Williams for such a profond and humbling talk 🙌
Great lecture. Lots of good advice.
@execcoachclaudia
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Jim!
What a great concept Claudia, when we gave best friends at work we surely look forward to being there.
Brilliant 🎊🙏🏾
Nice Claudia!
Great presentation! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Actually, most of them say that an employee who is happy doesn't necessarily be an engaged employee
@finisher3x
6 жыл бұрын
Who is "they"? Unhappy employees tend to be disengaged and not care about their job. They become frustrated and show apathy. Worse of all, they start to miss work because they just don't want to come in.