Bloom: Inspiring Ownership at Work

According to Gallup, ABC News, Newsweek, Fast Company and many other world and news media, we live in a time where employee engagement is at an all time low and workplace satisfaction is the worst it's been in years. Working firsthand with these "Job Renters" - employees who feel that work is just a means to an end - author, consultant and business leader Matt Dahlstrom defines the three things employees need to BLOOM. Goals, Roles and Rope!

Dahlstrom, who has dedicated 20 years to studying discretionary effort (the difference in the level of effort a person or group is capable of delivering versus the effort to only get by) uses a participative approach to workplace engagement: emergent behavior. At the heart of high performing teams, emergent behavior creates unanticipated results because the leader has identified the groups' needsresulting in performance beyond expectations, almost astonishing. Great leaders recognize it is their role to give employees what they need to not just succeed, but to flourish and thrive in an environment that rewards risk and engages people through responsibility.