Beyond Engagement: A Guide to Building Healthy and Successful Organizations

Monthly potluck lunches. Company pep rallies. Focus groups. Birthday parties.

If you are not seeing any results from these and want to drive your organization to higher levels of health and performance, you need Beyond Engagement.

Jadedness for satisfaction and engagement surveys are on the rise. Team members are no longer interested in hollow solutions and lip service to their morale and needs. Beyond Engagement takes readers through a look at the role of your human resources function and how their recruitment philosophies and interviewing processes have a dramatic impact on organizational culture and engagement. "You catch what you go fishing for" is the line that will resonate with you for a long time.

Tim Schneider then takes us on an updated and workplace specific view of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In Beyond Engagement, this needs pyramid assumes a new meaning and we see how meeting needs, at work, becomes a significant factor in organizational health. From the basics of providing for a team member's survival through creating satisfying and meaningful work, these sections provide solutions to many common organizational morale challenges.

Beyond Engagement continues with new views, supported by validated science, into real input. You will never conduct another brainstorming session again after reading this section and concentrate on providing your team members with real voice in the organization.

One of the most common failures in traditional engagement strategies is not having leaders that are truly people focused. Beyond Engagement tackles this issue in a straightforward manner and reasserts that leadership is a people function. Another important section deals with transparency and how an organization relays information in an honest and open way.

Schneider connects ethics, and specifically ethical congruence, to team member morale, spirit and engagement. Most engagement experts have not ventured down this path but Beyond Engagement takes it head on. Consistency in ethical practices, how team members are treated and the equal application of rules, will have substantive power in keeping morale, engagement and performance at high levels.

A final area of consideration is the adoption and execution of a service based culture. This section in Beyond Engagement is not the tired and worn discussion of how to treat customers but rather a critical look at how internal service providers like finance, information technology and human resources interact with your team members. Beyond Engagement connects those interactions directly with team performance and spirit.

Beyond Engagement is a powerful tool in building real performance through healthy organizational practices and motivating a world-class workforce.

Tim Schneider's mission, has always been "Committed Only to Your Success." DiOver the past twenty years, Tim has become one of the most sought after trainers, coaches, speakers and professional facilitators in the nation. Renowned for both his style and content, Tim delivers powerful messages about leadership, customer service, team work, communication and personal success. Stylistically, he brings an unparalleled enthusiasm, passion and power to his speaking and teaching which always infects his audience. His love of teaching and speaking becomes obvious within the first few minutes of each presentation. Equally obvious is his sense of humor and desire to make each session enjoyable and fun. You will also quickly see that Dr. Schneider never reads from a script and is very animated and in a constant state of motion while working. As the author of LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership, Tim is a widely recognized expert in leadership development, executive coaching and healthy organizations. He is also the author of the soon to be released Beyond Engagement. Dr. Schneider is a member of the adjunct faculty for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Community College of Southern Nevada and his professional accreditations include the American Society for Training and Development, International Speaker's Association, International Association of Facilitators, Society for Human Resource Development and Institute for Adventure Learning. Prior to becoming an instructor, facilitator and speaker, Tim was a senior executive for several major financial service providers in the southwest. He holds a doctorate in Organizational Development, a master's degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University and a cum laude bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Wyoming. Personally, Mr. Schneider is married and is the father of two children. He is also the proud guardian of Sammy the wiener dog, Sydney the hyper-active Corgi and Sadie, the Corgi puppy.