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Below is a briefing on some interesting employee engagement articles, blog posts, books, etc. that I came across last week.
Website: Recognize This! Blog
Article: Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Communicate Meaning & Value of Work
Link: http://www.recognizethisblog.com/2014/11/increase-engagement-communicate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+globoforce%2Frecognize-this+%28Recognize+This%21++With+Derek+Irvine%29
Author: Derek Irvine
Comment: A look at how to increase employee engagement based on the latest from Aon Hewitt: recognition and enabling productivity.
Website: LinkedIn Pulse
Article: Don’t Squander Employee Engagement: 5 Ways to Capitalize on It Now!
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140416231437-6985014-don-t-squander-employee-engagement-5-ways-to-capitalize-on-it-now
Author: Aszure Gray
Comment: “How do you cultivate high employee engagement into something more and expand upon it?” The author offers 5 ideas.
Website: OnWindows
Article: Avanade’s Digital Workplace: boosting employee engagement
Link: http://www.onwindows.com/Article/avanades-digital-workplace-boosting-employee-engagement-42588#.VGq3w_nF-Hc
Author: Rebecca Gibson
Comment: “It’s not enough just to provide employees with technology, they must also be incentivised to use it through gamification exercises, customer engagement challenges, and regular competitions that test the employees’ skills with the devices, or their product knowledge.”
Website: Business 2 Community
Article: 13 Disturbing Facts About Employee Engagement (Infographic)
Link: http://www.business2community.com/human-resources/13-disturbing-facts-employee-engagement-infographic-01065150
Author: Jeff Fermin
Comment: “#2. 80% of senior managers are not passionate about their work.”
Website: MSN Money
Article: Here’s the No. 1 reason you’d like to quit your job
Link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careerandeducation/here%E2%80%99s-the-no-1-reason-you%E2%80%99d-like-to-quit-your-job/ar-AA7CvUA
Author: Brian Solis
Comment: This article discussed the results of the report, “Relationship Economics: How genuine communication and engagement in social media helps businesses grow relationships with employees and customers while improving the bottom line.”
Website: The Advisor
Article: The power of thank you – a simple gesture to increase workplace productivity
Link: http://www.theadviser.com.au/blog/31086-the-power-of-thank-you-a-simple-gesture-to-increase-workplace-productivity
Author: Nicholas S. Barnett
Comment: “Expressing gratitude is not in itself a silver bullet for increasing employee engagement. It should be considered as part of a genuine effort by senior leaders to develop high performance by engaging our employees and building great places to work.”
Website: PRNews Wite
Article: Bersin by Deloitte Research: Effective Succession Management Tied to Strong Employee Engagement and Retention
Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bersin-by-deloitte-research-effective-succession-management-tied-to-strong-employee-engagement-and-retention-282547151.html
Author: Bersin by Deloitte
Comment: “Organizations with sophisticated succession management practices – the processes of identifying successor candidates to fill key leadership or other crucial roles in an organization – realize significant employee engagement and retention gains, according to new research from Bersin by Deloitte.” “The research findings appear in Bersin by Deloitte’s new study “High-Impact Succession Management: Key Findings and Maturity Model.””
Website: Boston College – Center for Corporate Citizenship
Article: Encouraging Employee Engagement Across the Spectrum
Link: http://corporatecitizenship.bc.edu/encouraging-employee-engagement-across-the-spectrum
Author: Colleen Olphert
Comment: “Engaging employees at different career stages is nothing new to corporate citizenship professionals, but the growing numbers of employees at each end of the spectrum are creating a need to think more creatively about engagement.”
Website: Employee Benefit News
Article: Going mobile can add weight to employee engagement
Link: http://ebn.benefitnews.com/news/ebn_co_benefits_communication/going-mobile-can-add-weight-to-employee-engagement-2744737-1.html
Author: Nick Otto
Comment: “Engaging with employees can be difficult, and the routine, repetitive manner of barraging workers with nagging emails doesn’t quite seem to do the trick. But some employers are taking different tactics, such as text messaging, to enhance employee-employer engagement.”
Website: Forbes
Article: Should Employees And Employers Really Be Building An ‘Alliance?’
Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/11/14/should-employees-and-employers-really-be-building-an-alliance/
Author: Jacob Morgan
Comment: “To learn more about the “tour of duty” along with other concepts from The Alliance, I invited [author] Chris Yeh to join me on The Future of Work Podcast.” (01:03:04)
Website: Business 2 Community
Article: Mobile Apps for Employee Engagement: Three Keys to Success
Link: http://www.business2community.com/mobile-apps/mobile-apps-employee-engagement-three-keys-success-01065014
Author: Caitlin Carpenter
Comment: “Increasingly, companies understand the benefits of mobile employee engagement communication: hitting employees where, when, and how they want to receive information through smartphones rather than emails or other traditional methods. Through examining programs initiated by early adopters of a mobile strategy, some important pitfalls to avoid, lessons learned, and keys to success have emerged.”
Website: Fast Company
Article: Why Being Engaged At Work Isn’t As Simple As “Being Happy”
Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/3036399/the-future-of-work/why-being-engaged-at-work-isnt-as-simple-as-being-happy
Author: Mark C. Crowley
Comment: “I recently sat down with Jim Clifton, Gallup’s CEO for the past 26 years, and asked him to provide his prescription for bringing American workplaces back to full health. Leveraging insight gained from Gallup’s decades-long global engagement and well-being studies, not to mention his own work with hundreds of companies across the world, he offered this often contrarian advice.”
What are your thoughts on these selections? What articles, blog posts, books, etc. can you recommend to other “Agents”? Let’s talk about them in the comments below!
P.S. First time here? Welcome to the Agent In Engagement site. Thanks for taking the time to stop by! I hope you’ll explore the rest of the site. Let me know what employee engagement topics interest you.
Other recent Agent in Engagement articles by Gregory F Simpson:
- Employee Engagement Quotes from November 3 – 7, 2014
- The 4th Tenet of Better Engaged Employees – Customers Define Quality and Service
- The 3rd Tenet of Better Engaged Employees – Provide Solutions and Show that You Care
- The 2nd Tenet of Better Engaged Employees – Service Comes from the Inside Out
- The 1st Tenet of Better Engaged Employees – Customers Make the Rules
- Archetypes of The Hero’s Journey and The Employee Engagement Journey
- The Hero’s Journey and the Employee Engagement Journey
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