Encouraging New Ideas and Fostering Employee Engagement: A Leadership Discussion with Jill Wiedemann-West
Join us as we talk to Jill Wiedemann-West, CEO of People Incorporated, as she shares her insights on building a culture of transparency, encouraging diverse voices, and fostering employee engagement. Discover how her leadership style has helped to encourage new ideas and create a positive work environment.
Here’s how they did it:
- Top leadership team retreats every month to ask critical questions, have difficult conversations, and encourage different ideas/opinions
- Quarterly extended retreats with the director-level team
- Staff take turns leading meetings with different styles to encourage new ideas
- Regular engagement surveys, career pathway meetings, and training programs to foster employee engagement
- Partnership with outside organizations and institutions of higher learning to provide staff with scholarships for higher degrees
- A belief that there is a solution to every problem and working together as a team to solve it
- Strategies to avoid employee burnout, including hiring more people, offering more time off and greater flexibility.
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