The Transformative Power of
Employee Ideas
YOUR EMPLOYEES could have solved your biggest challenge last week—if you’d known how to tap into their potential. While organizations invest in elaborate change initiatives and flavor of the month programs, the people who know your business best—your frontline workers, your veteran supervisors, your quiet problem-solvers—are teeming with ideas and have solutions ready to go. Instead, they watch from the sidelines as their insights go untapped and their frustration grows.
This book delivers the roadmap and the tools to unleash this hidden resource in a way that motivates your people, seamlessly integrates into virtually any change initiative, and delivers results in fewer than 60 days.
Imagine yourself as the newly appointed CEO of a mid-size food distribution company. You’ve worked your way up the ranks, only to face a crisis: plummeting profits, exhausted cost-cutting measures, encroaching competitors, and restless investors.
You believe the key to revitalization lies within your workforce, but traditional approaches to employee engagement have yielded disappointing results. Annual surveys reveal low morale and frontline workers are disconnected from the transformation process. Meanwhile, the need for a swift, efficient, and impactful turnaround is urgent.
This was the predicament facing a client of mine. Her own journey from entry-level to CEO convinced her that frontline personnel had the insights needed to turn things around. However, she was also acutely aware of the limitations of past engagement efforts. Suggestion boxes gathered dust, town hall meetings felt performative, and expensive consultants offered little more than generic advice. Her job was on the line.
How could she tap into the collective knowledge of her workforce and inspire them to drive real transformation—quickly and effectively?
Want to learn how this CEO turned her employees into drivers of change, not merely passengers along for the ride?
Discover more by ordering your copy of Ideas to Action.