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		<title>Engage Your Employees With a Powerful Mission</title>
		<link>https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2016/10/12/engage-your-employees-with-a-powerful-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 04:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Welch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="201" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-300x201.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-300x201.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-768x514.jpg 768w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-1030x689.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-760x508.jpg 760w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-518x346.jpg 518w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-82x55.jpg 82w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-600x401.jpg 600w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>Last week I introduced my Ebook 12 Steps to Business Transformation and I defined Vision, the first of the 12 transformational steps. This week we are going to talk about Mission. Defining the Mission for your business is step 2 in my new free Ebook &#8220;12 Steps to Business Transformation.&#8221; Where Vision is defined as [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2016/10/12/engage-your-employees-with-a-powerful-mission/">Engage Your Employees With a Powerful Mission</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com"></a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="201" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-300x201.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-300x201.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-768x514.jpg 768w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-1030x689.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-760x508.jpg 760w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-518x346.jpg 518w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-82x55.jpg 82w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1-600x401.jpg 600w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mission_1.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>Last week I introduced my Ebook 12 Steps to Business Transformation and I defined Vision, the first of the 12 transformational steps. This week we are going to talk about Mission. Defining the Mission for your business is step 2 in my new free Ebook &#8220;12 Steps to Business Transformation.&#8221; Where Vision is defined as [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Is Your Main Thing Really Your Main Thing?</title>
		<link>https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2015/11/19/is-your-main-thing-really-your-main-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birkman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DISC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disengaged]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lominger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myers Briggs]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="200" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-300x200.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-705x470.jpg 705w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>&#8220;The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.&#8221;  Stephen Covey &#160; What is your &#8220;main thing&#8221;? What is it that you do so well that people are willing to pay you for it? If you are not doing your main thing, or what you do best every day, chances are you are [&#8230;]</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="200" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-300x200.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-705x470.jpg 705w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MainThing-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>&#8220;The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.&#8221;  Stephen Covey &#160; What is your &#8220;main thing&#8221;? What is it that you do so well that people are willing to pay you for it? If you are not doing your main thing, or what you do best every day, chances are you are [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>And The Employee Engagement Survey Says . . .　</title>
		<link>https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2015/01/15/and-the-employee-engagement-survey-says-%e3%80%80/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satisfaction]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkingbusinessblog.com/?p=494</guid>

				<description><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="200" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-300x200.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-705x470.jpg 705w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>Last week I wrote a post entitled Your Employees Are Happy . . . And Other Popular Myths. In this post I explained that having happy employees and having engaged employees are not necessarily the same thing and that as business leaders we need to strive for engaged employees. I provided links for two informal [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2015/01/15/and-the-employee-engagement-survey-says-%e3%80%80/">And The Employee Engagement Survey Says . . .　</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com"></a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="200" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-300x200.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-705x470.jpg 705w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p>Last week I wrote a post entitled Your Employees Are Happy . . . And Other Popular Myths. In this post I explained that having happy employees and having engaged employees are not necessarily the same thing and that as business leaders we need to strive for engaged employees. I provided links for two informal [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Your Employees Are Happy . . . And Other Popular Myths!</title>
		<link>https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2015/01/09/your-employees-are-happy-and-other-popular-myths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engaged]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[happy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Clifton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mastery]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img width="236" height="300" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-236x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-236x300.jpg 236w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-811x1030.jpg 811w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-555x705.jpg 555w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-450x571.jpg 450w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad.jpg 924w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /><p>Are your employees really happy? What does &#8220;happy&#8221; actually mean? Are we even asking the correct question? Perhaps we should ask; &#8220;Are your employees engaged at work?&#8221; According to Gallup only 31% of US workers are engaged at work (the numbers in Canada are similar to this). This is scary! It means that 69% of our [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/2015/01/09/your-employees-are-happy-and-other-popular-myths/">Your Employees Are Happy . . . And Other Popular Myths!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com"></a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="236" height="300" src="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-236x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-236x300.jpg 236w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-811x1030.jpg 811w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-555x705.jpg 555w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-450x571.jpg 450w, https://www.thinkingbusinessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad.jpg 924w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /><p>Are your employees really happy? What does &#8220;happy&#8221; actually mean? Are we even asking the correct question? Perhaps we should ask; &#8220;Are your employees engaged at work?&#8221; According to Gallup only 31% of US workers are engaged at work (the numbers in Canada are similar to this). This is scary! It means that 69% of our [&#8230;]</p>
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