Episode 799

Glenn Elliott is the founder of Reward Gateway, a world leader in integrated employee engagement technology with more than 1,800 clients worldwide. His new book, “Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement,” which he co-authored with Debra Corey, highlights practical improvements that organizations can make to build a highly engaged company culture.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• How good founders know instinctively what the market needs to be successful
• Why you always need to keep your team under constant review
• How you shouldn’t hire people for what they’ve done in the past but rather what they’ll do in the future
• Why Glenn and his co-author, Deborah, decided to write the book “Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement”
• Some of the ways that companies are disengaging employees
• How the path to better engagement is different for every organization
• The importance of helping people develop their skills
• How honesty and transparency can help you be successful at managing employee engagement
• Why it’s important to focus on how you make people feel
• Why you need to always be thinking about your customer

Ways to contact Glenn:

• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/glennelliott
• Twitter: @glennelliott; @rebelplaybook
• Website: www.rebelplaybook.com