How To Increase Team Engagement If you are reading this, you are most likely a leader that sees value in teams with a high level of engagement. Personally, I have been passionate about employee engagement throughout my entire career, but I have had varying levels of success mobilizing efforts that really move the needle. Gartner […]
Tony Mauro
Tony is an experienced management consultant and an employee engagement enthusiast at Perficient. Tony also writes and speaks about mixing pods (https://mixingpods.com). Mixing pods is actively capturing insights from work, home, and fatherhood and mixing them together to help shape how we show up as leaders, foster connection with others, and increase engagement in organizations.
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Designing the Business Process Model to Implement Strategy
This is part 2 of a 5 part blog series on defining an operating model for your organization. In this post, we explore Step 2: Establishing the Business Process Model A number of industries are currently facing disruption and change. In addition, the daily grind of running the business can knock us around a bit […]
Capturing Key Insights to Define Strategic Priorities
This is part 1 of a 5 part blog series on effectively defining an operating model for your organization. In this post, we will explore Step 1: Defining the Strategic Priorities Strategic planning is often done in the C-Suite. However, it is important for functional leaders to develop a strategic plan and an operating model […]
What is the one word that will define success in 2019?
We turned the page on another year and over the next few weeks, organizations and individuals everywhere will be communicating their strategic priorities, goals, and objectives for 2019. This year, I would like to challenge you to identify the one word that describes the success you desire for 2019. Then, ensure that your strategic goals […]
Sometimes You Need to Manufacture Momentum
The past few months have been very busy in all aspects of my life and it has felt like one of those grind it out kind of periods. A major project was stalling, I hadn’t put out a blog in a while, and I wasn’t feeling great about my accomplishments. Work/life balance was ok, but […]
Why I Love the Marathon Relay as a Company Team-building Event
Our company participated in the Colfax Marathon Relay again this year. It’s a great event with the marathon broken up into 5 legs (6.5, 4.0, 5.5, 4.1, and 6.1 miles). While I was running my leg, I started thinking about why I like running this race every year with my coworkers (mainly to distract me […]
Are You Book Smart or Street Smart? Maybe Neither!
Back in 2011, I was getting to know my new team on a project. I’m not exactly sure how the conversation started, but the question came up if we thought we were book smart or street smart? So rather than make up my rationale for one or the other, I thought the best answer would […]
7 Ways My 3 Year Old Improves My Relationships at Work
My wife and I met in college, married after 4 years, waited 13 years before having children, and we now have 2 daughters. We have a 3-year-old (Maggie) and 18-month-old (Addie). I knew that I would continue to grow as a parent, but had no idea the impact kids would have on my professional development […]
Q2 is Here! Use a Simple Approach to Achieve Your Strategic Goals
We are heading toward the end of Q1. Organizations have finalized budgets and have set their strategic direction. Do you feel like you have the right operating model in place for your team to meet company objectives? Do you have your priorities sorted out? What does success look like? Stepping back and taking a simple […]