Best Employee Engagement - Monthly Spotlight Articles - RedIn October, our Employee Engagement Briefings highlighted 50 employee engagement-related articles. Each week, one article was selected as the Spotlight Article. Here is a recap of the Spotlight Articles of October 2018.

 

 

 

Cracking the code of Employee Value Proposition

People Matters: “Understand the key moments in a comprehensive employee value proposition and de-constructing it across the employee journey.”

 

 

 

 

The Modern Workplace: Mastering Communication and Collaboration

Bonusly: “Distributed workplaces demand an updated way of thinking about communication and collaboration. In this article, we’ll take a look at the modern workplace, sharing within teams, communication technology, and how to encourage collaboration.”

 

 

 

 

How to Design a Talent Management Roadmap

Saba: “Just like a coach knows an athlete’s skills and when to engage them, pull them out of the game or encourage further development, an organization’s talent management strategy is all about knowing who you have on your team, their skills, and when and where you need them the most. For organizations, the leadership and HR act as the coach.” “n our view, talent management is an interlock of programs, all with the same goals – to attract, engage and retain top-performing people with the right skills and fit to meet organizational needs today and in the future.” “Our model is simple. We use the [6] steps below to guide discussions with our customers and get them thinking about their strategies and initiatives to execute on them.”

 

 

 

 

If Humility Is So Important, Why Are Leaders So Arrogant?

Harvard Business Review: “We live in a world where ego gets attention but modesty gets results. Where arrogance makes headlines but humility makes a difference. Which means that all of us, as leaders or aspiring leaders, face questions of our own: Are we confident enough to stay humble? Are we strong enough to admit we don’t have all the answers?”

 

 

 

 

The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business Review: “For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. These have become the default dimensions of a manager. But they relate to pursuing a fixed target in a stable landscape. Take away the stability of the landscape, and one needs to start thinking about the fluidity of the target. This is what’s happening today, and managers must move away from the friendly confines of these five tasks.”

 

 

 

 

 

Fellow Agents, what are your thoughts on this month’s must-read intelligence? What must-reads would you suggest?

 

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