Foreword -- What is engagement? -- Why engage, involve, and motivate employees? -- 5-step method to engage, involve, and motivate employees -- Step 1 -- Find projects to pull people -- Step 2 -- Ask for ideas on specific improvements -- Step 3 -- Set time targets to test ideas and complete...

Authors -- Introduction: engagement : what is it and why do it? -- Step 1: Find something to improve : something that makes your job easier -- Step 2: Offer ideas on how to improve a process, product, or service and ask your co-workers for their help -- Step 3: Test your ideas -- Step 4:...

1. What is engagement? -- 2. Why engage, involve, and motivate employees? -- 3. 5-step method to engage, involve, and motivate employees -- 4. Find projects to PULL people -- 5. Ask for ideas on specific improvements -- 6. Set time targets to test ideas and complete action steps -- 7. Motivate...

Since 1978, fiscal limitations imposed by the California Constitution have curbed the ability of local governments to raise revenue. Recently, the California Supreme Court made one of the most important of these limitations even more restrictive. In Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, Inc. v....