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The Horsepower SystemTM

A Next-Generation Employee-Engagement Tool

Is Employee Engagement on Your Radar Screen?

If employee engagement is on your radar screen, we really ought to talk (608-833-9446)!  I have studied human motivation for 30 years.  I know what the motivational engine "looks like" and how companies can efficiently tap into it.  I'd like to tune your company's motivational engine and double productivity and profitability in the process!  My approach is pretty simple: if you take care of your employees, your employees will take care of the customer, and you will make lots of money.

The "Primal Management Approach" to Employee Engagement

My approach to employee engagement is described in "Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance."  "Primal Management" was published by The American Management Association in May, 2009 as one of its featured books.  The feedback thus far has been overwhelmingly positive: the business press likes it, the academic community likes it, the consulting community likes it, and, most importantly, enlightened leaders like it. 

Primal Management was translated and published in Japan in December, 2009, and a Spanish version is in the works.  Fortune-500 CEO Jim Estill wrote, "Every CEO should read this book." CIO Insight Magazine voted Primal Management one of its 15 "Essential Spring Books for IT Leaders." 

The Horsepower SystemTM: A World-Class Tool for Managing Employee Engagement and Motivation

I took the human-performance technology described in Primal Management and turned it into the world's first motivation-management tool, The Horsepower SystemTM.   This internet-based tool helps companies organize and manage the complex culture/motivation/leadership side of their businesses.  It not only tracks employee engagement on a regular basis, but provides leadership-development resources for getting the engagement score to go up.  Here is a link to a downloadable brochure that describes the tool in more detail:  Horsepower SystemTM Brochure.  To listen to a narrated PowerPoint tutorial describing the tool, CLICK HERE.  If you'd like to test drive the actual software, visit www.horsepowermetric.com/demo.php. 

This tool turns employee engagement from a once-a-year afterthought into a vital business priority.   In other words, it embeds employee motivation into the daily fabric of organizational life.  Each manager and supervisor gets his/her own, personalized, leadership-dashboard for monitoring whether  their employees are functioning optimally or malfunctioning.  If the motivational engine is malfunctioning, the software will diagnose the cause and provide Tune-Up TipsTM for fixing the problem.

If you don't have time to read a book, please download the following short article:  "We Maintain Our Machines Better than  We Maintain our People."  It describes the simple logic for monitoring and maintaining your engine.

A Solution Where Everybody Wins

The assumption underlying my approach is disarmingly simple. Companies that align themselves with human nature create a win-win scenario where everybody benefits:

  • Employees win because their work becomes more intrinsically rewarding (they experience the five productive pleasures that drive high performance),
  • Managers win because the company is more efficient, profitable and innovative and because they get to work with fired up employees,
  • Customers win because they get faster, better service from employees with a good attitude, and
  • Shareholders win because they make money.

Don't Become a Dinosaur!

In my opinion, traditional top-down, command-and-control, machine-like workplaces are antiquated dinosaurs that are ill equipped to survive in a turbulent global marketplace characterized by rapid change because they fail to bring out the best in people (they fail to tap into the motivational engine). The status-quo approach is coercive and creates grudging compliance instead of passionate performance. 

The status-quo best practices have created a dysfunctional world where only 30% of employees care about their work (Gallop, 2009), only 30% of strategy initiatives succeed (Harvard Business Review, 2010), only 30% of change initiatives succeed (Harvard Business Review, 2010), and where only 20% of mergers and acquisitions increase shareholder wealth. Put another way, corporations are failing Employee Engagement 101.

I think It is time for companies to wise up and pay more attention to the people-side of the success equation! 

Let's Create A People-Play

If we combine your leadership wisdom with my world-class methodology, we can create a "people-play:" a company that succeeds spectacularly by getting the people-part right. 

If you would like to implement this killer, game-changing idea, please give me a call (608-833-9446).  I'd like to learn about your situation and how I might help.