Condition 4: Appreciation and recognition

Leaders and managers regularly and consistently notice and appreciate the contributions and achievements of staff. This can be through implementing contributions, saying "thank you," personal feedback, or corporate recognition. Contributions are made meaningful to the individual and the organization, and a "feedback loop" ensures that staff know that they are valued:

organization engagement, enabling the whole organization to evolve in a joined-up, strategically sustainable manner (**Figure 7**). While much time and energy have been dedicated to the performance cycle and innovation cycle, we are still at the relatively early stages of exploring

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• Greater retention of business and customer value (as opposed to the dissipation that can

The author would like to acknowledge the contribution of April Strategy colleagues and associates who have been instrumental in shaping the thinking in this paper, in particular:

John Vincent: for leading edge thinking on strategies and approaches to organization change. Alan Matcham: for constructive challenge to existing leadership and change models and

Rosie Banks: for distilling the thinking around conditions for organization engagement.

The benefits that one should expect from a fully functional evolution cycle include:

• A more reflexive and dynamic organization that is in the habit of change

occur through open innovation and extensive outsourcing)

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• Greater enterprise cohesion, with people better aligned and engaged

the evolutionary process that connects the two.

**Figure 7.** Complete model for "innovation inside.".

**Acknowledgements**

**Author details**

Tim Westall

advocacy of a human-centric approach.

April Strategy LLP, London, UK

