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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
Website: Reward Gateway (Blog)
Article: What is employee engagement anyway?
Link: http://blog.rewardgateway.com/employee-engagement-anyway/
Author: Perdie Alder
Comment: “We need to understand what our employees believe it means to be engaged, and align our engagement strategy to focus on the matters that are important to those employees.”
Website: Inc.
Article: This Is the Single Most Important Leadership Skill to Your Employees
Link: http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/this-is-the-single-most-important-leadership-skill-to-your-employees.html?cid=sf01001
Author: Will Yakowicz
Comment: “A study of 20,000 employees around the world found that this trait is more important to them than recognition and appreciation.”
Website: Gulf Times (Qatar)
Article: 10 employee characteristics line managers love
Link: http://www.gulf-times.com/eco.-bus.%20news/256/details/439524/10-employee-characteristics-line-managers-love
Author: Sharoq al-Malki
Comment: “Obviously, that colleague has all the positive characteristics, which your manager loves and hence it appears that your manager is favouring him/her. But the fact is that the manager may not necessarily like the employee personally, but he loves the characteristics the employee has. So what exactly are these characteristics? Read on to find out.”
Website: Boston Business Journal (blog)
Article: Guest commentary: RIP employee engagement… long live talent magnetism
Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2015/05/guest-commentary-rip-employee-engagement-long-live.html
Author: Roberta Matuson
Comment: “Companies are spending billions of dollars on employee engagement, yet employees are still miserable and unproductive. It’s time to bury this initiative and do something that works—Talent Magnetism. Here’s how to build a workplace that attracts and keeps the best.”
Website: Smart Blog on Leadership
Article: Are you the wrong type of “engaged” leader?
Link: http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2015/05/12/are-you-the-wrong-type-of-engaged-leader/
Author: Jennifer V. Miller
Comment: “Here’s how to tell the difference between an Otherwise Occupied Leader and a Plugged-In Leader.”
Website: Entrepreneur
Article: 10 Ways to Grow Leaders in Your Business
Link: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246343
Author: John Rampton
Comment: “There are many reasons why organizations spend enormous amounts of time and resources on developing leaders. One of the most important examples would be that “Organizations with the highest quality leaders were 13 times more likely to outperform their competition in key bottom-line metrics such as financial performance, quality of products and services, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction.” If you want your organization to fall into that category, then use the following 10 tips to help develop leaders within your business.”
Website: Main Street
Article: More Than Half of Bosses Now Count As Officially Disengaged and Turned Off Their Jobs
Link: https://www.mainstreet.com/article/more-than-half-of-bosses-now-count-as-officially-disengaged-and-turned-off-their-jobs
Author: Robert McGarvey
Comment: “[T]he boss who has stopped caring about work is surprisingly easy to identify. Executive coach Kathi Elster of K Squared Enterprises in Manhattan ticked off four key signs.” “HR expert Pam Christie offered another three signs that bosses are fading into the woodwork.”
Website: Gallup
Article: Owning Your Personal Engagement as a Remote Worker
Link: http://www.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/183341/owning-personal-engagement-remote-worker.aspx?utm_source=WWWV7HP&utm_medium=topic&utm_campaign=tiles
Author: Annamarie Mann
Comment: “Going from the office environment to a home office required a shift in the way I approached my work, structured my day and interacted with coworkers, all of which impacted my engagement. While my coworkers, manager and partners have played a large part in my engagement, I realized that I also needed to shift how I managed and owned my personal engagement. I found four key areas that helped.”
Website: Human Resources Online
Article: Can you change with the times?
Link: http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/managing-brain-friendly-organizational-change/
Author: Caroline Palmstedt
Comment: “If you have experienced organisational change that has impacted employee engagement and retention negatively, there may be reasons for understanding what has caused this. Caroline Palmstedt, talent management lead for Asia Pacific at Monsanto, shares the neuroscience behind why organisational change can fail.
Website: SlideShare
Article: Transform HR and Employee Engagement
Link: http://www.slideshare.net/Salesforce/transform-hr-and-employee-engagement-with-salesforce
Author: Salesforce
Comment: “Connect & engage with your employees in a whole new way using Salesforce.”
Fellow Agents, what are your thoughts on this intelligence? What do you have to add? What other sources should be consulted? Make entries in the comments log below.
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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: 05.11 – 2015.05.15
- The Hortons and The Whos of Employee Engagement
- Employee Engagement and “The Customer Rules”
- Be a “Mom” at Work: Employee Engagement and the 7 Characteristics of Being a Good Mother
- Employee Engagement and “Creating Magic”
- ‘It’s Our Turn to Lead’: Employee Engagement on Earth Day 2015
- Emojis for Employee Engagement
