Hi everyone! Many of you asked me for a summary of my dissertation research.  Of course you are welcome to the whole thing if you’d like… just let us know and we’ll send you the PDF file, all 167 pages in their academic glory :).  Please let me know if you would like to replicate this [...]

As I sit at my office at Wright State University I realize, quite viscerally, what engagement really means.  It means a perfect connection.  It means looking at yourself in some invisible mirror and saying: “I was born to do this.”
I have always wanted to be a college professor.  If you ask me why I will [...]

Data collection for my dissertation officially starts tomorrow - I can’t believe I am getting there!  This weekend I spent most of my available time refreshing my memory on SPSS (for the uninitiated, SPSS is a really statistical package) and running some tests on a very small pilot study on engagement I ran using friends and [...]

A colleague and I were chatting about her company’s engagement efforts.  ”We pay a lot of attention to engagement,” she said.  ”For instance, just now we had another engagement survey.  We believe that happy employees serve our customers better and thus yield better results for our company.”
A fine thought… but unfortunately not quite accurate.  In [...]