Stop Engaging Employees: The Human-Centric Leadership Framework Scaling Companies Need | Eryc Eyl
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Eryc Eyl discusses the flaws in traditional employee engagement strategies and advocates for a human-centric approach to leadership.
"You can't make people be engaged any more than you can make people fall in love with you — which is a creepy thing to try to do." — Eryc Eyl Your employee engagement program has a dashboard, a quarterly survey, and a score nobody knows what to do with. What it doesn't have is people who actually feel connected to the work. That gap isn't a failure of execution. It's a failure of framing — and Eryc Eyl has spent 30 years watching companies miss it. Speaker, coach, consultant, and author of Stop Engaging Employees, Start Making Work More Human , Eryc is a human-centric leadership catalyst with a genuinely unusual angle: he makes his case from behind a DJ booth. Drawing on three decades in workplace culture and change management, Eryc uses the discipline of reading a room, taking requests, and co-creating a vibe to illustrate exactly what leaders get wrong when they try to engineer culture instead of cultivate it. In this episode, Karl and Eryc dismantle one of the most overused phrases in corporate leadership — "employee engagement" — and rebuild it into something that actually moves people. The financial outcomes, Eryc argues, are a lagging indicator. They're the metric. The…
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