DECLASSIFIED - Wikimedia CommonsI’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 updates.

 

 

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SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE

How to Tell If a Company’s Culture Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review: “During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. Now that you have one, you need to assess whether the job and organization are a good fit.” “ It’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work.” “Here are some ways to do that.”

 

 

 

Four Insights From Leading Thinkers That Will Transform Your Employee Engagement And Performance

Forbes: “Four ideas discussed at a recent Thinkers50 event in London provide some clues as to where [leaders and managers] should start [to achieve the performance levels that customers and leaders want]. These ideas came from leading management thinkers Tom Peters, Nilofer Merchant, Alex Osterwalder and Liz Wiseman”

 

 

Mastering the Leadership Puzzle

Middle Market Growth: “To learn more about what makes a leader exceptional, Optimum Advisors recently conducted an anonymous survey. Here’s what the survey’s 218 respondents said their best bosses did to earn the highest praise, and three actions that stood out.”

 

 

Quantifying Employee Engagement: Get Behind the Numbers

Dice: “Experts say that, because every company is different, there’s no single winning approach to engagement, and thus no single way to quantify it. Still, many suggest measuring engagement is something like a three-legged stool: The process is a seat supported by a.) data, b.) listening, and c.) a certain amount of gut feel.”

 

 

Give More Than Just Thanks: The Psychological Upsides To Giving Back

Fast Company: “Gratitude is a powerful emotion we should all tap into more often, but the benefits of altruistic teamwork might have it beat.”

 

 

Eight employee engagement strategies that work

Standard Media (Kenya): “As a manager at any level, you should aim at keeping those under you engaged as this is the best way to ensure that they meet their targets and your strategies are being implemented smoothly.” “Obviously, everyone wants to work with engaged employees but, just how do you achieve this?

 

 

Sexual harassment at work: what are the red flags to look for?

CultureAmp: “There’s no disputing the complex relationship between culture and sexual harassment. And there’s no getting away from it. In each of the previous posts in this series, we’ve touched on the primacy of culture in shaping how individuals, and the organization more broadly, respond to sexual assault.” “Here, we’ll discuss some of the ways employee feedback, and engagement surveys in particular, can help build that understanding. We’ll also look at the one hard measure [Nathan] Luker keeps an eye on and the big opportunity that startups have to build their culture for the future.”

 

 

Learning FOMO: How curation can help prevent you from missing out on the development you expect

HR Times Blog: “While careful curation may contribute to FOMO in our personal lives, it can actually help avoid FOMO in learning while improving learning effectiveness.”

 

 

People Science: What if companies knew their people as well as they knew their customers?

Sage: “People Science means applying data-driven approaches to improve workforce visibility – and how you both manage and engage your employees. It’s about understanding people and their behavior in your company and generating more actionable insights to help you make better business decisions about your workforce.”

 

 

Reduce Bias in the Hiring Process By Taking These Courageous (and Sometimes Uncomfortable) Steps

LinkedIn Talent Blog: “Privilege. Racial profiling. Transgender identity. Gender pay gaps. Glass ceilings. Working parents. Intersectionality. You can’t be a diverse organization without really talking about diversity,” says Yewande Ige, ThoughtWorks Global Recruitment Strategist.”

 

 

 

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