Sunday Management Six Pack: Week of 09/20/2009

This week brings you 6 great articles from all around the blogosphere. I’m sharing an article about reconnection, women and leadership, some employee engagement statistics, the wrong questions, and last but not least, all about how managers add value.

Take 5 minutes now to sit back and enjoy a can or two from the Sunday Six Pack!

Leading off is 10 Ways to Reconnect Your People from Watson Wyatt (put together by Brian Amble) over at Management Issues:

Job cuts, endemic uncertainty, too much change too quickly – it’s little wonder that so many people feel pretty alienated from their organisations at the moment. So here’s some very sound advice from consultants Watson Wyatt about the steps you can take to reconnect employees.

Next up is Yvonne DiVita Thinking about Women and Leadership Again over at Lipsticking:

Here is today’s message: Do not believe the writers who say women still have a long way to go. In truth, we arrived long ago. Just ask one Mary Kay skincare consultant.

David Zinger offers some good news in the form of some important statistics in US Employee Engagement Levels on the Rebound:

• Modern Survey has once again indicated in their survey work that employee engagement has returned to the level it was 2 years ago and fully engaged employees have risen from 12% to 15%.

Rosa Say authored “Paper or Plastic?” Wrong Question, which is a very powerful post…with great added value in the comments!

I have a very simple leadership challenge for you this week: Listen for all the wrong questions you’re still asking your customers. Wrong questions give terrible impressions, and we can do better.

Last but not least, Lisa Haneberg offers a simple list of How Managers Add Value (which is too short to excerpt anything from it).

Six Pack photo credit to Dr. Keats