Welcome to Engager Dynamics.com! Thank you for visiting. We are having a conversation about what I call “Engager Dynamics.” We are looking at Employee Engagement from a little different perspective. Take a look at this post to see what I mean by “Engager Dynamics.”
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Engager Dynamics
- Trust But/And/Or Verify?
- Action!
- Trust Me!
- Stay In Your Lane
- Love ’em or Lose ’em
- Flip Flops
- TBH
- Don’t Drink The Poison
- More than Just Me
- Not Just Another Lady
- Where Credit Is Due
- I See You
- Are We There Yet?
- The Three Stone Cutters
- I Love That Idea!
Habit Formation
- A Rudder and Sail
- A Lesson About Growth From a Rubber Band
- How Your Comfort Zone May Be Hurting You
- What’s in the Box?
- Semper Gumby
- A Mile Wide
- Are We There Yet?
- Happy Anniversary!
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 2
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 1
- Listening Exercises Part 3
- Listening Exercises Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 1
- How to Make a Habit of Love
- How to Make a Habit of Optimizing
Listening
- How to Successfully Navigate the Chaos of Change
- Well Known?
- A Mile Wide
- I Love That Idea!
- Happy Anniversary!
- Serving as a Leader
- What the Best Bosses Do
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 3
- Listening Exercises Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 1
- Listening With Your Hands and Feet
- Listening With Your Mouth
- Listening with Your Heart
- Listening With Your Gut
Words
- Trust But/And/Or Verify?
- When Winning Can Be Losing
- How Your Selfie Could Ruin Your Team
- What’s the Value?
- What’s in the Box?
- Semper Gumby
- TBH
- Not Just Another Lady
- Where Credit Is Due
- I See You
- Are We There Yet?
- Happy Anniversary!
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 1
- Listening with Your Heart
- Metacognition and Listening to our Listening
About
Hi, I’m Jim Thomason. My wife and I have been married for 38 years and we’ve been blessed with 5 amazing children. We’ve lived in 9 states and 2 countries.
I’m a Listener/Learner/Teacher type Leader. I love to read and study. I love having coffee with friends, old and new, and I love figuring things out. I’ve spent the last 20+ years in the Contract Management Services industry. I love learning how my clients understand, approach, and measure their business. My clients have come from a wide variety of industries. I’ve served Transportation clients (airlines, rental cars, bus), Sports and Entertainment clients (baseball and football), Manufacturing clients (Food, Semi-conductor, Pharmaceuticals, Communications Systems), and Health Care clients (Hospitals, Medical Offices). I also had the privilege, with my wife and our 3 youngest children, to serve an international school in China.
Prior to all that I served as a pastor for 11 years. Over that time, our family served two churches in the Midwest part of the country.
That’s is a wide variety of experience, but one thread that ties it all together is people. Every organization I’ve been part of is made up of people, and each of them is about providing something for people. I like to say, “It doesn’t matter what your widget is, every business is a people business.”
I said earlier that I love to figure things out. Mostly I love figuring out how to make things better. I firmly believe that you make any organization better by first improving the experience of your people. That’s what I’ve tried to be about. I hope this conversation will provide some insights that will make your life better.
Blog
A Rudder and Sail
Many years ago I was in a job I wasn’t sure about and living in a place I didn’t like that much. I was unsure about the future and while apparently feeling a bit melodramatic I wrote this little poem: A cork adrift Tossed by every wave and gale “God’s Will,” he smiles But …
Coloring Outside the Lines
Now I’m going to sound like I’m contradicting myself from my last post. In that post, I wrote about boundary lines and how important they are for raising children and for employer/employee interactions in the workplace (not to mention on the road during a snow storm). Now I’m writing about “coloring outside the lines.” That …
Where Are The Boundary Lines?
Several years ago my wife and I loaded into our mini-van with some other members of her family and drove from where we lived at the time in Normal, IL (it’s a real place!) to Lincoln, Nebraska because our local college basketball team was playing in the first round of the NCAA tournament. We had …
Posts By Category
Engager Dynamics
- Trust But/And/Or Verify?
- Action!
- Trust Me!
- Stay In Your Lane
- Love ’em or Lose ’em
- Flip Flops
- TBH
- Don’t Drink The Poison
- More than Just Me
- Not Just Another Lady
- Where Credit Is Due
- I See You
- Are We There Yet?
- The Three Stone Cutters
- I Love That Idea!
Habit Formation
- A Rudder and Sail
- A Lesson About Growth From a Rubber Band
- How Your Comfort Zone May Be Hurting You
- What’s in the Box?
- Semper Gumby
- A Mile Wide
- Are We There Yet?
- Happy Anniversary!
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 2
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 1
- Listening Exercises Part 3
- Listening Exercises Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 1
- How to Make a Habit of Love
- How to Make a Habit of Optimizing
Listening
- How to Successfully Navigate the Chaos of Change
- Well Known?
- A Mile Wide
- I Love That Idea!
- Happy Anniversary!
- Serving as a Leader
- What the Best Bosses Do
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 3
- Listening Exercises Part 2
- Listening Exercises Part 1
- Listening With Your Hands and Feet
- Listening With Your Mouth
- Listening with Your Heart
- Listening With Your Gut
Words
- Trust But/And/Or Verify?
- When Winning Can Be Losing
- How Your Selfie Could Ruin Your Team
- What’s the Value?
- What’s in the Box?
- Semper Gumby
- TBH
- Not Just Another Lady
- Where Credit Is Due
- I See You
- Are We There Yet?
- Happy Anniversary!
- The Habits of Transformational Engagement Part 1
- Listening with Your Heart
- Metacognition and Listening to our Listening