Of course, this week — Thursday, specifically — is not the only time to be thankful for whatever level of employee engagement your business enjoys.

But, hey, now is a well-publicized time for thanks. So let me offer you my 10 Engagement Thankfuls. I am tremendously grateful for my

1. Realization that employee engagement really is the pivotal source of people doing their jobs better and better.
2. Discovery that the true starting point for engagement that works is the business culture. A culture that values engagement lives it rather than merely trains it.
3. Expanding my delight as a prayer chaplain and experiencing engagement complementary to my work.
4. Knowing more and more people interested in — even committed to — employee engagement as a practical and powerful business element.
5. Great health entering my second 60 years and certainly that makes my work and life engagement all the more enjoyable .
6. Continuing to love the work I do and to do the work I love. I love engagement and engagement refuels that love; I call it a “victorious circle.”
7. Connections with a number of fast-growing communities because I am not afraid to talk to strangers about something as fundamental as engaged employees.
8. Realizing how engagement relates to just about every aspect of work: for employees, supervisors, managers, business leaders.
9. Powerful reading that may not be directly about employee engagement but always generates ideas about engagement.
10. Never having any trouble coming up with an idea for a posting here!

Thank you! And Happy Thanksgiving!