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
Cloud Tweaks: The Future of Employee Engagement
Comment: “The process of employee engagement requires two essential components. The first is the means to connect, and the second is permission.”
Fast Company: The 5 Types of Coworkers Who Can Make Your Work Life Infinitely Better
Comment: “An integrator, an advocate, a pioneer? Hiring managers, take note: These are the five types of coworkers everyone needs in the office.”
Financial Express: De-stressing employees
Comment: “Long working hours can lead to a sedentary lifestyle and associated illnesses such as obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. A few minutes of physical activity can not only enhance employee productivity but also employee bonding, so crucial for any organization.”
Growth Business (UK): From culture to strong leadership: how to build the perfect team
Comment: “Everyone wants a winning team whether that’s in business or sport, but how do small business owners who are often under resourced and under pressure create a knock-out team that delivers?” “Here are five tips for building winning teams.”
Management Today (UK): Have your say on the powerhouse of business strategy – engagement, enablement and empowerment
Comment: “Engage your employees and your business will thrive. Yet too many companies aren’t getting it right. As part of a study on employee engagement, Purple Cubed is asking for your help.”
Human Resources Online (Asia): Peers, not bosses, are the top drivers of employee engagement
Comment: “The people most likely to make employees feel engaged at work are not their managers, rather their colleagues. In fact, the HR team is likely is the least likely to have a positive impact on engagement levels, finds a new Oracle study titled Simply Talent.”
The HR Director (UK): Companies use employer branding more to attract than retain staff
Comment: “Despite skills shortages, only 40 percent of surveyed companies see employer branding as a useful tool for lowering staff turnover and enhancing employee loyalty. Less than 40% seek help from communication agencies on regular basis to address employer branding. Top three employer branding tools are social media, career sites and events.”
Human Resources Director Canada: HRM exclusive: Widgets author tells all
Comment: “Rodd Wagner is synonymous with employee engagement – his latest best-seller Widgets has been hailed as a “frame-breaking” approach to leadership and his recent Forbes article sparked industry-wide debate about the state of employee engagement. Here, he chatted to HRM about how leaders responded to that article and what he hopes readers will take away from the new book.”
Huffington Post: Are You Really Engaging Your People?
Comment: “When an organization only looks at employee involvement from a largely one-sided corporate benefit perspective, it’s missing out on opportunities to more fully engage with their people.”
The Royal Gazette (Bermuda): The engagement deficit – the high cost of doing nothing
Comment: “In the first of a three-part series, change-management expert Andre Labonte, who is a guest lecturer at Bermuda College, writes about the importance of keeping employees engaged.”
Chequed: 7 Survey Lessons For Employee Engagement
Comment: “Bob Kelleher is CEO of the Employee Engagement Group and consultant on the subjects of employee engagement, workforce trends, and leadership. He shares the following lessons on the subject of employee engagement.”
Talent Culture: 10 Ways To Be A Better Leader Without Spending Anything [Infographic]
Comment: “Motivate yourself to put an active effort into self growth by printing out the infographic below.”
Business News Daily: Underperforming Employees? They Might Not Know What You Want
Comment: “To free employees to take initiative and inspire high performance, managers need to set clear expectations, hold employees accountable for meeting them and respond quickly when employees need support,” Marco Nink, senior practice expert at Gallup, wrote in an article about the poll. “But managers also should hold themselves accountable for meeting employees’ performance needs.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Do Employees Really Feel About Their Companies?
Comment: “Sentiment-analysis software helps identify and resolve issues before talent starts to leave.”
Business 2 Community: What Ants Can Show You About Employee Engagement & Customer Centricity
Comment: “In the aforementioned study, researchers watched five ant colonies over the course of two weeks. Of the ants the researchers defined as the workers, 71.9% were inactive at least half the time they were observed, and 25.1% were never seen working. Only 2.6% of the ants were always active.”
The Business Journals: 4 strategies for building (and maintaining) employee engagement
Comment: “Employees truly are a company’s best asset, so leaders and managers should place engagement and motivation at the top of their priority list.”
Sodexo Insights: Happiness by Design: Office Designs that Increase Employee Happiness
Comment: “Despite research showing that physical environment is the most significant factor in an employee’s ability to focus and that a well-designed office can increase productivity by 20 percent, office design is only now being considered a promising solution to positively impacting employee engagement and performance.”
Business 2 Community: Let’s Play! How Gamification Can Improve Employee Engagement
Comment: “Just as gamification is popular with consumers, it has exceptional utility as a method to direct and incentivize positive employee activity and productivity.”
Tiny Pulse: How Different Personality Types Work With Each Other [Infographic]
Comment: “Here’s an interesting take on the different personalities in the workplace and how each supports the other.”
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P.S. First contact? Welcome to the Agent In Engagement community. Explore and join fellow employee engagement operatives in targeting a known thief – alias: Disengagement. Together we can bring this thief to justice and make the world a better place for all companies and their employees.
Other recent Agent in Engagement data/reports by Agent Gregory F Simpson:
- Veteran Employee Engagement Operative Insights: 10.12 – 2015.10.16
- Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit Recap – Part 2 of 4
- Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit Recap – Part 1 of 4
- When Engagement Means Life or Death
- Is Holacracy the Answer to Employee Engagement?
- The 9 Most Important Phrases to Improve Employee Engagement
- Employee Engagement: The Lifeblood of an Organization
