Management acronymA while back Winning Workplaces Chairman Ken Lehman wrote an editorial in which he urged small business leaders to use tried-and-true approaches to management, while shunning passing fads, to create a productive workplace culture for the long term.  Some of the fads he mentioned have been used so often by so many businesses (and certainly by the consultants who advise them) that they are known today by acronyms such as:

No doubt, to varying degrees these approaches have been helpful to many firms.  Yet, within the lens of fostering top-tier workplace team building and employee engagement strategies, there are some (more) acronyms you need to know.  These include:

  • MBWA - Managing By Walking Around
  • SMART - as in goals, for your directors and managers especially; we spelled out this acronym in this past post
  • KOI - Kontinuous Operational Improvements; used very successfully in employee committee format by our Best Boss award winner Greg Wittstock of Aquascape Designs
  • CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility; this list of employee engagement research and practice articles on our site address the wide applicability of this focus
  • PIES - This is the latest acronym I've learned about; I covered it here last week

What acronyms not mentioned here have helped you better manage your employees and your business?  Please add a comment and let me know.