Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce

CONCLUSIONTHE ULTIMATE SUMMIT: ENGAGEMENT

Being an avid mountaineer, I can’t help but to see the parallels in high-altitude mountaineering and business: success is a constant climb. If you stop trying to move forward, you will fall behind. In both mountaineering and Talent Management, training and preparation are critical to successfully reaching the summit, or peak, of Engagement. Without proper training, there are multitudinous opportunities for Disengagement, despair, and failure in achieving one’s objectives.

From the outset of the climb, or building Engagement, you need to set a clearly defined goal: a Strategy and Mission. That goal is not only measured by how high the summit is, but, most important, the dual objective of getting down and ...