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Culture Bytes: Building Engaged Teams and Committees

Sue Tetzlaff Season 1 Episode 31

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In this Culture Byte episode, Sue Tetzlaff discusses how to utilize teams as a way to foster employee engagement. She emphasizes the importance of creating teams with a compelling purpose and empowering them to fulfill that purpose. Sue also highlights the benefits of utilizing a team structure in organizations, where teams are aligned with strategic priorities and work on organization-wide improvements. Additionally, she suggests repurposing staff meetings as improvement meetings to actively engage employees in the improvement process.


  • Creating teams with a compelling purpose and empowering them can foster employee engagement.
  • Utilizing a well designed team structure in organizations can lead to organization-wide improvements aligned with key strategic priorities.
  • The model of using a 12 Week Team, or a series of them, can provide an added boost of engaged efforts toward priority goals or improvements.
  • From Routine to Revolutionary: Redefining staff meetings as improvement meetings can actively engage employees in improvement and growth initiatives.

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