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

2018 Will Be the Year of Employee Experience

Forbes: “Now that according to Gartner more than 90% of businesses compete primarily on the basis of customer experience (CX), it’s no longer enough to make CX a corporate priority.  The next competitive frontier is employee experience (EX) and the signs indicate so strongly that EX will become the next priority for organizations that I’m calling 2018 The Year of Employee Experience.”

 

 

 

Want To Change Behavior? You Must Start With Beliefs

Management Stack: “’To do or not to do something’ indicates that the focus is on the behavior itself. Beliefs drive behavior. Therefore, success requires that you focus not on the behavior…but on the belief behind the behavior.”

 

 

How to be more productive in 2018

Wired UK: “Kick your bad habits and get more done with these tips from productivity experts.”

 

 

Tale of a Twitter spat: does employee engagement add any meaningful value?

The People Space: “Employee engagement is in a big mess and evidence about its effect on performance is low. But not everyone agrees, finds Rob Briner.”

 

 

This Week in Employee Engagement: January 3, 2018

Maritz Motivation Solutions: “The utter explosion of digital content presents countless opportunities for learning. Start here to narrow down your search each week in the often overwhelming landscape of employee engagement thought leadership!”

 

 

Company Culture and Employee Engagement Statistics

CultureIQ: “We’ll let the numbers speak for themselves. Check out the below statistics on the power of company culture and employee engagement.”

 

 

Four innovative ways to use employee feedback data

CultureAmp: “Here are a few examples of how you can incorporate employee feedback, particularly engagement survey results, to other processes to make them even more efficient and effective.”

 

 

5 Interview Questions To Determine Whether the Candidate Shares Your Company’s Core Values

LinkedIn Talent Blog: “Tony [Hsieh, CEO of Zappos] has made culture the number one priority at Zappos, largely by hiring people who closely align with the 10 core values the company developed in its early stages…To get there, his HR department developed questions that specifically screen for each of those values.” Here are 5 questions companies can use to “hire for their core values—and the soft skills that exemplify those values.”

 

 

I Know Less Than You Do – and It’s Okay!

Marshall Goldsmith: “Continuing the conversation with Alisa Cohn, startup and entrepreneurial leadership coach, named one of Boston’s Top 10 coaches by Women’s Business, and one of the 100 coaches selected to be in the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches legacy project, we turned our focus on what happens when CEOs are leading knowledge workers, people who know more about their jobs than the CEO does.”

 

 

The Top 3 Factors Influencing Employee Satisfaction And Retention: An Interview With Colleen McCreary

15Five: “Colleen [McCreary]  is currently Chief People Officer at Vevo…offers advice for handling the different stages of the employee lifecycle via the lens of making people feel valued instead of merely extracting value from them.”

 

 

 

 

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