Truth, Lies & Work

Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement

The show's founding subject — the very first episodes are built around it, and 84 episodes carry engagement-tagged segments.

What's been said

  • Engagement ≠ satisfaction. Leanne's core distinction: an engaged employee is happy and pulling the business forward; a merely "satisfied" employee can be the "happy but lazy" trap — content but disengaged .
  • The 4 pillars. Leanne's evidence-backed framework (the show's early spine): strategic narrative to organisational integrity — the four things every business needs to get right to build a genuinely engaged workforce .
  • Engaging culture vs. positive culture. A recurring nuance: an engaging culture (people thriving) is distinct from a merely positive culture (fixing problems) — the distinction drives whether engagement is real or cosmetic .
  • Engagement is not a survey score. Engagement runs deeper than measurement; it's a value-exchange and a culture outcome (links to culture and trust).

The episodes & clips that cover this

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  • Thriving vs. fixing problems: engaging culture vs. positive culture

    and helping them thrive, and in turn, helping your business thrive, focusing on the positive aspects Okay. So if I've got 20 employees and one of them I know is on Facebook half the time, and another

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  • The 4 pillars of employee engagement (the overview)

    Yes, just to give a little context before I dive into number 1, the reality is there is no one-fit model of assessing employee engagement within your organisation, and particularly if you're a small o

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  • Engagement vs. satisfaction — the 'happy but lazy' trap

    So I think from what I'm understanding from what you're saying there, and of course this, this is a little bit contrived in that I do understand it, but for the listener's point of view, then what we'

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