Straight Talking From Andrew Leigh of Maynard Leigh Associates

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Each month Andrew Leigh poses a tough question to the UK's top HR practitioners. 

What difference, if any, do you think the recent MacLeod report on Engagement will make over the coming year?

As one of many HR individuals passionate about unlocking the potential of our talented employees, I am a keen supporter of employee engagement as a management priority.   

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“My biggest problem is selling in the whole idea of engagement.” This comment from an experienced L&D professional sums up the challenge many face in making sense of the now vast array of data on this much hyped topic.

Just what persuades and what merely raises interest amongst policy makers? And what are the essentials for gaining buy in for investing in or maintaining the development of engagement within companies?

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Here is the big idea for 2010. HR must become customer centric, not shareholder or managerial centric. 

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When we talk of charisma we tend to think of people like Obama, Mandela and even Gordon Brown whose charisma quotient seems to have gone AWOL.

No one doubts for example that Sir Alan Sugar has a sort of charisma but he probably succeeds despite it rather than because of it. 

Also not in doubt is that charisma usually tends to be widely treated as akin to a magic potion. Some people have it and others don’t and the rest is silence.

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What does it mean to be a learning organisation?  Experienced L&D practitioners will usually have a rapid answer to such a basic questions. But perhaps an even better question is: What does it mean to NOT be a learning organisation?”

In the search for powerful stories about non-learning organisations you cannot do much better than share with colleagues the tale of musician Dave Carrol’s difficulty with United Airlines.