Author: Mary Ann Masarech

Mary Ann Masarech spent the first third of her career writing, designing, and marketing skills training for top-notch consulting firms. She acquired a broad Mary Ann is the Lead Consultant for GP Strategies’ Engagement Practice. In this role, she leverages her extensive experience with instructional design and client experience to create practical tools and strategies that clients apply worldwide to create successful businesses and thriving workplaces. She is also co-author of The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce (Wiley, Oct 2012), and a founding member of the Norma Pfriem Urban Outreach Initiatives, a not-for-profit that addresses food insecurity and education for underserved adults and children. Mary Ann is a graduate of Wesleyan University. 

4 Steps to Improve Your Engagement

Resolutions for Personal and Professional Achievement Full disclosure: A version of this blog appeared nearly a decade ago. Its principles…

Learning

6 Tips to Get Your Measurement Mojo Back

Has it been a while since your last employee engagement survey? Are you ready to re-engage but don’t know where to start? Here are six fundamentals for successfully re-engaging with your employees.

Employee Engagement

4 Key Strategies to Build a Culture of Career Growth

Creating a culture of career growth improves the odds that your workforce will be willing, ready, and able to move into the roles that you need them to play. Here are four strategies to make it happen.

Leadership

How to Talk to Employees: Essential Conversations for Effective Management 

If you manage employees, you need to talk to them. That's a no brainer, right? Yet manager-employee conversations are more of a myth than a best practice in many organizations. Many of the managers we interview sheepishly acknowledge that they should have more regular sit-downs with their team members, but a variety of excuses stand in the way.

Leadership

8 Truths to Shape Your Success

I’ve spent the better part of the year talking and writing about resilience, personal and organizational engagement strategies, and future-proofing…

Employee Engagement