Competitive Advantage

I’m not certain if Senior Management or Board Members are paying much attention these days on the root cause of productivity.

With alarming data from Gallup telling us that a large number of workers worldwide are disengaged, would this not be enough to have organizations wanting to know more about their current state? 

In the State of the Global Workplace Report – October 2013, Gallup shared with us that fully engaged workers in Canada are at a shocking 16%. Sound the alarms!
Canadian workers are about half as likely as those in the United States to be fully engaged.

The need to boost productivity in an organization should be of top concern to senior management.  If not alone, the need to compete globally is ensuring that your workplace is effective, since those who figure it out will gain significantly. 
I truly believe that the organizations that invest in improving management and workforce effectiveness should have increased business growth and success. 

Here lies a big competitive advantage for those interested.
Research done by Effective Managers™ and the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa identified key findings that are Canadian specific and, most importantly, finds a link between the effectiveness of an organization and the workers, being the Manager.  Hold on, before coming to a quick conclusion of firing management, the research discovered in most cases it's not their fault. 

The research found dimensions of accountability being critical to success and also found that a series of other measures have significant correlation to organizational effectiveness.

If we define employee engagement, we get a meaning of emotional commitment and actually caring about the work and the company.  Based on my experience, without a good knowledge and understanding how I may impact things, my commitment and passion for something is weakened.   

What I find interesting is that the research and survey developed from Effective Managers™ helps an organization determine on how their workforce have clarity of their accountability, and the felt accountability, which I believe is getting closer to the root cause of engagement. 

Senior Management and Heads of HR now have a tool to determine their current state compared to benchmarks on key organizational effectiveness measures, hence giving them a competitive advantage.

For more information on how your organization can tap into this new solution visit:
Canadian People Management Inc.