From wanda.jane at gmail.com  Sun Nov 18 10:18:09 2007
From: wanda.jane at gmail.com (wanda)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:18:09 -0800
Subject: Recent Quality Events at work
Message-ID: <474073D1.9020604@gmail.com>

We had a huge build-up to a day of employee-engagement at work. I have a 
brother-in-law in the marketing business and he was quite interested in 
my experience because he sees companies looking for this kind of service.
There was a fair amount of mistrust, eye-rolling, and anger about the 
intrusion into our work lives. I have to admit, I felt quite put-out by 
it. We're under a tremendous pressure right now but that was not 
something the designers of this day could take into consideration. In a 
business with more than 125,000 employees, there will always be a group 
under tremendous pressure to meet a deadline or fix a problem.
The company was not very successful, leading up to the day, in 
communicating what it was they expected of us. I understand, now, that 
they planned to use specific techniques and too much preparation would 
have short-circuited the strategy they had in mind.
I wrote in one of my blogs about the experience and my thoughts on the 
process.
I'd be interested in hearing if other companies are having similar kinds 
of activities (or how they go about wooing employees).
The blog is at: http://wetcoastwriter.livejournal.com/.
Wanda

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