I’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.
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SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE
Tiny Pulse: New Resource Hub: Introducing the TINYinstitute
Comment: “The TINYinstitute is an online learning center for company leaders, managers, HR professionals, and anyone else interested and invested in having a healthy and engaging workplace.”
Customer Think: A NO EXCUSE Approach To Make Change Stick and Drive Employee Engagement
Comment: “This is the sixth and final installment in our 6-part organizational change leadership speaker series of articles that looks at stimulating change for passion & profits.”
Tiny Pulse: 11 Fun Ways to Show Employees You’re Thankful
Comment: “Thanksgiving is the opportune time to show your employees you’re thankful for all of their hard work. Don’t let the day pass by without taking one of these 11 fun ideas for showing your staff how much you care.”
PR Newswire: Seventy Percent Of Employees Unhappy With Career Opportunities
Comment: “According to CEB, a best practice insight and technology company, today’s flat organizational structures mean employees spend more time at each job level – roughly three more years than in 2010. This stalled progression has caused 70 percent of employees to be dissatisfied with future career opportunities, leading to potentially massive turnover costs.”
Tiny Pulse: 9 Top Reasons Why Employees Love Their Jobs
Comment: “Oftentimes, we believe that money is the only reason employees love their jobs. Turns out that’s not the case.”
Kontiki: 3 things employee engagement plans miss when they don’t include video
Comment: “As you consider the possibility of enterprise video plans, don’t just think about what you get with video, also consider what your business would be missing out on if you fail to innovate.”
Appirio: What Can Marketing Cloud Do to Boost Employee Engagement?
Comment: “Ask anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem and they’ll tell you that Marketing Cloud puts the “C” in CRM. With customers at its core, Marketing Cloud is exactly the platform companies need to continuously innovate and optimize the customer journey. But even a great CRM platform isn’t enough to cultivate an exceptional Customer Experience; it takes happy workers to create happy customers. And unfortunately, fewer than one-third of workers feel engaged at work. So while you may already know the merits of Marketing Cloud for customers, do you know what it can do to transform your Worker Experience?”
Federal News Radio: OPM answers the question: ‘What is employee engagement?’
Comment: “Federal agencies now have a common language for planning and discussing how best to develop a more engaged workforce. The Office of Personnel Management developed a new white paper on employee engagement, which describes the outcomes of a committed and focused workforce and the strategies agency managers can use to drive that kind of engagement among their employees.”
Forbes: A Simple And Effective Employee Recognition Exercise You Can Implement Today
Comment: “There are a few ways you can kick off employee recognition for free, and it starts with a simple discussion at the end of every week.”
Forbes: 3 Lessons From One Of America’s Great Culture Builders
Comment: “Three lessons from Discover Your True North by longtime Medtronic CEO, Bill George.”
Personnel Today: Employee engagement: are your happy workers disengaged?
Comment: “It trips businesses up when they get engagement and happiness confused, warns change specialist Penny Loveless. She considers the barriers to engagement and provides tips for sustaining and creating a culture of commitment.”
Tiny Pulse: Recruitment Strategies to Attract and Win Top Talent
Comment: “Recruitment strategies are more than waving sky-high salaries and fancy perks in candidates’ faces. The real way to get top talent is to use resources like social media and your own creativity to make yourself stand out from the competition.”
The Maravi Post: The future of HR: It is more about humans and less about resources
Comment: “People management today is about aligning the company’s people, with the vision of its leadership and the culture of the company. That demands that CEOs, HR Directors and other members of the executive suite start thinking about people in a more strategic and holistic manner. It’s not just about costs and productivity – it is also about innovation, unlocking human potential, and creating organisations that people are truly inspired proud to work for.”
Tiny Pulse: Why a Toxic Work Culture Kills Your Retention Rate
Comment: ‘Work culture matters — a lot. It’s easy to blame managers and leaders when the organization’s turnover rate goes through the roof, but culture also plays a big role in employee retention. Our research shows that certain aspects of culture influence an employee’s likelihood to stick with their company.”
Towers Watson (Australia): A finger on the pulse of employee engagement
Comment: “There are three main kinds of feedback that are well suited to pulse survey approaches: Sentiment check, Initiative check, and Progress check.
Naples Daily News: Down to Business: Seven tips for sales force engagement
Comment: “Employee engagement is critical to the success of an organization. The more engaged employees are the more productive and effective they can be in their jobs. This is true of all employees, but particularly for your sales force.”
Loyalty360: Employee Engagement Triggers Customer Experience at Starbucks
Comment: “Global brand icon Starbucks doesn’t just rest on its laurels, in terms of providing a memorable customer experience. The company engages its employees in such a way that they, in turn, provide great customer experiences.”
Tiny Pulse: 50 Inspirational Quotes About Leadership
Comment: “Being a leader requires more than just barking directions and meddling in people’s work. Courage, inspiration, honesty — these are all great leadership qualities that every manager should strive for. So if you need a little kick, here are 50 great quotes that will inspire you to become a first-class leader.”
Profit Guide: How to Set in Motion a Virtuous Cycle of Employee Engagement
Comment: “You’ll never know how committed or happy your workers really are unless you ask. Four steps to take after receiving feedback.”
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- 007 Steps to Become an Agent In Engagement
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- Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit Recap – Part 3 of 4
- Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit Recap – Part 2 of 4
