2014-04-11-declassified top secret - pixgoodI’m Simpson…Gregory F Simpson, Agent In Engagement.  Below is the latest intelligence briefing on employee engagement. Follow @agtinengagement to stay current with the latest intelligence.

 

 

“These assets have been declassified and should be distributed to fellow “Agents” for review.”

 

 

SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE

Business Review Canada: Energize your workforce: 10 ways leaders can take employees “beyond engagement”

Comment: “To create a sustainable, innovative and high-performing organizational culture, businesses need to focus on both engagement and energy—essentially, moving “beyond engagement” as we know it today.”

 

 

 

Workplace Savings & Benefits UK: Do performance incentives work?

Comment: “Businesses are increasingly using incentive schemes to motivate staff and improve workplace productivity. But do they work?”

 

 

 

Business Solutions Magazine: Global Human Capital Trends Survey Emphasizes Need New Employee Engagement, Retention Strategies

Comment: “According to Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends survey, employee engagement and culture issues have risen to become the No. 1 challenge companies face around the world.” “The report examines 10 trends across four major themes for 2015: Leading; Engaging; Reinventing; and Reimagining.”

 

 

 

Bloomberg BNA: Boomerang Employees Are on the Rise

Comment: “In a survey of more than 1,800 human resources professionals, managers and employees by Kronos and Workplace Trends, 76 percent of respondents said they’re more accepting of hiring former employees than they were five years ago. Nearly two-thirds of managers agreed. Employees also reported feeling less anxiety about returning to a company, with 40 percent of those surveyed saying they would consider boomeranging.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: My Boss Is An App

Comment: “I’m an on-demand worker, and my app-boss is the most annoying and mentally taxing supervisor I’ve ever had. But worse, I fear that my app-boss is a preview of how corporations might run workplaces in the future.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: 8 Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk

Comment: “Clearly exercise is beneficial in so many aspects of our lives, even in our jobs (don’t forget that sitting for prolonged hours is actually harmful to your health). But not all of our workplaces sponsor lunchtime yoga or have gyms on site. Even then, it’s difficult to find the time. However, there are eight exercises you can do right at your desk — some even while you’re sitting down.”

 

 

 

Innovation Excellence: The Importance of Engaged Employees to Growth

Comment: “The evidence shows that, as staff engagement levels rise, companies collect key benefits. Deeply involved employees are more efficient, working longer hours and going beyond what is asked. This is why Gallup and McKinsey recently announced the creation of the Organisational Science Initiative to find the ‘first-ever global gold standards around employee engagement and organisational health’.”

 

 

 

Forbes: How This 30000 Person Company Designs Great Employee Experiences

Comment: “NCR considers its employees “consumer-workers” and knows the importance of having the employees be the best advocates of the company.” “To help NCR understand their Consumer-Workers and create the most exceptional experiences for them, they use the Five-Star Experience Model.”

 

 

 

Wall Street Journal: Twitter CEO a Key Factor in Employee Engagement

Comment: “Last year, according to internal Twitter data, the CEO was the primary driver of employee engagement, a measure of how involved workers feel and whether they’re enthusiastic about their jobs. It’s an especially important measure at tech companies, which face tough competition for employees and are trying to reduce turnover.”

 

 

 

Workforce: Stuck in the Middle

Comment: “Recognizing and working with the subtleties of managing up, developing and nurturing relationships with peers, and leading others requires tenacity and focus. In fact, according to a study conducted by leadership development consultancy Zenger Folkman, the bulk of the most disengaged workers are midlevel managers. And why wouldn’t they be? Middle management is often a thankless marathon endurance event that never seems to end.”

 

 

 

Ignite Global: Don’t lose good people by making dumb mistakes!

Comment: “It’s far easier (and much less expensive) to have regular conversations with your top talent about their ideas and suggestions, job requirements, career aspirations, motivations and desires than to replace them when they become bored and frustrated because these conversations are not being had.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: Employee Engagement Surveys: The 20 Questions You Need to Ask

Comment: “[L]eaders are misguided when it comes to using employee feedback surveys. You can’t just send one out and expect it to magically fix morale in the workplace. But pulse surveys give managers the upperhand in all of this.”

 

 

 

Talk Business Magazine UK: 5 ways to keep your staff engaged

Comment: “Successful business mentor and coach, Penny Davenport, gives her top tips for keeping your staff members happy, engaged and working towards a common goal.”

 

 

 

Fast Company: The 4 Personality Traits Of Engaging Leaders

Comment: “How well you keep your team engaged is partly a matter of your own personality.”

 

 

 

Customer Think: Cost Effective Employee Engagement – 3 Great Examples

Comment: “I [Andy Hanselman] love finding examples of real businesses who are making it happen and in my travels in the last week I’ve come across 3 relatively simple and replicable things other businesses could copy or develop…”

 

 

 

Business 2 Community: Employee Engagement Is Not The Problem

Comment: “Engagement is often looked at as a stand-alone problem. It’s assumed that by ‘solving’ employee engagement in your company, you will suddenly have a more productive, higher performing, workforce. But real employee engagement is woven into many other aspects of the organization, including leadership, culture, communication, and development. When you begin to change one of these, it creates a ripple that affects many others.”

 

 

 

Maritz Motivation: Is Your Culture Having an “Amazon Moment”? (and what to do if it is)

Comment: “If your culture is having an “Amazon Moment” here are three important things to keep in mind”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: The 5 Most Useless Times to Schedule Meetings

Comment: “The timing of a meeting is essentially as important as what the purpose of the meeting is. Before you schedule a meeting with coworkers or even higher-ups, think about the time of day and consider how focused people will be. After all, getting on the same page is the overall goal. So depending on the hour of the day, employee engagement can either be a hit or miss.”

 

 

 

Chicago Business Journal: How to be a vulnerable and authentic leader (and increase employee engagement)

Comment: “Leaders and employees who are vulnerable and authentic with one another are more likely to feel connected, increasing workplace productivity and employee engagement.”

 

 

 

Forbes: Why Do Employees Leave Their Jobs? New Survey Offers Answers

Comment: “Turnover, of course, is one of those management problems with a myriad of subtle costs – from lost productivity to training time to uncertainty that the new hire will work out.” “And as anyone who’s ever hired employees knows, the process is seldom as simple as you expect it will be. Which is why I read with interest the results of a new employee retention report that recently came across my desk.” “Let’s review the high-level results.”

 

 

 

 

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