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Welcome to The Most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

The best run business is Run SAP.

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham. You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

And if you want to run with the game changers, I promise you're in the right place.

Heads up, this is the second of three consecutive episodes devoted to the topic of employee engagement.

I know it's important to you, wherever you are in the world, whatever kind of company you own or you manage or you're in,

and each episode will address a different approach.

So let's get started, the buzz today.

The buzz on the street all over the world is the power to inspire. Okay, what's happening? What are people saying? Executives and employees alike agree that leadership today is lacking. That's not a good thing. So who says so? Well, we have information from a workforce 2020 study initiated by success factors in SAP company with Oxford Economics. Why is this happening? Well, it comes down to the basics. Companies are not focused enough on developing future leaders. It just all comes down to that development track. What does this mean to you out there?

Think about the leadership characteristics in your organization that inspire you to come to work every single day.

And more than that, not just show up and keep a chair warm or a corner warm, but do your best in your job every single day.

It takes a lot of motivation, doesn't it?

What's the bottom line?

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