2014-04-11-declassified top secret - pixgoodI’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.

 

 

“These assets have been declassified and should be distributed to fellow “Agents” for review.”

 

 

SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE

Harvard Business Review: The High Cost of Conformity, and How to Avoid It  

Comment: “Leadership is the willingness to move in a different direction than others. If we want to lead, then the real question — for you and me — is how can we resist the pull of conformity and stand courageously in truth and right? How can we live the values that make us and our colleagues trustworthy?”

 

 

 

IT Business Net: Beyond Engagement: Getting Over Our Effort Ethos

Comment: “I can tell you that it isn’t effort that releases high performance in humans. It’s energy.” “When it comes to generating energy, we’ve ignored the one organ that matters most: the brain. Here are 10 brain-based strategies you can use to unlock an engagement that’s infused with energy.”

 

 

 

Business 2 Community: The Critical KPI You Might Be Missing

Comment: “[T]here is one other key metric that you should be aware of: Employee engagement.” “This key metric has the ability to connect and drive every other you’re tracking, and have influence them each independently.”

 

 

 

WCW Partners: Why Coaching is the “Secret Sauce” of Leadership

Comment: “While there are other important leadership skills, the lack of coaching is one of the main reasons for leadership derailment.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: Leadership Qualities of Our Favorite Bosses  

Comment: “Employees want to work with a boss that they admire or inspires them. But since there are so many different leadership qualities that determine a great boss, and everyone has their own opinion, I asked people around the TINYpulse office to recall their favorite bosses. Here’s what they said.”

 

 

 

Entrepreneur: Inspire Employee Loyalty With Recognition Rooted in Company Values  

Comment: “Not all employee recognition programs are created equal. To hold on to your best and brightest, here’s the formula for creating a program that reinforces the company’s values.”

 

 

 

TechVibes (Canada): Workplace Flexibility Increases Employee Engagement, Report Reveals [Infographic]

Comment: “The [Stone-Olafson for Rogers and WORKshift] findings suggest that Canadian organizations that embrace a flexible and mobile workplace will not only benefit from a more engaged workforce, but can save costs, be more productive and attract top talent.”

 

 

 

Virtual Strategy Magazine: Boosting Employee Engagement via Digital Signage: How a Leading Seating Solutions Company Did It

Comment: “Digital signage is the most cost effective vehicle for employee communication throughout a single location or across a global network. It increases engagement by allowing employees to feel like they’re “in the know” and up to date with what’s happening in the company.”

 

 

 

Entrepreneur: Employee Engagement Is More Important Than the Customer  

Comment: “We learned that being your own customer — having your leaders and your employees interact with each other as customers and associates — helps you experience the customer journey and validate your product’s quality and capabilities. You’ll get more value from using your product frequently than you will from digging through data to find empirical answers to engagement problems.” “Here are five ways you can more effectively engage your internal customers.”

 

 

 

Silicon India: Solving the Problem of Retention through HR Technology

Comment:  “HR leaders can help foster a culture of retention through the strategic use of HR technology” for Onboarding, Engagement, and Outplacement & Redeployment

 

 

 

Human Resources Executive Online: What’s Disrupting HR Tech in 2015?  

Comment: “It’s become something of a regular occurrence at the HR Tech Conference: Josh Bersin’s release of the top 10 disruptions in HR technology for 2015.”

 

 

 

Econsultancy: How L’Oréal uses social media to increase employee engagement

Comment: “In this post I’m going focus on how L’Oréal used social media to create a sense of community within the business, not only increasing engagement internally but also creating an attractive employer brand externally.”

 

 

 

Melcrum: Internal Communication and Employee Engagement: Nine Observations of Common Practice  

Comment: Access Melcrum’s latest report that presents the results of the Collective Engagement: How IC Empowers Employees to Shape Culture, Commitment and Purpose survey

 

 

 

Talent Management: HR Tech, Day 1: Technology for Contingent Labor Gains Popularity

Comment: “Editor Frank Kalman recaps the first day of the HR Technology Conference & Exposition from Las Vegas.” Includes WorkSmart, Delta, HireVue

 

 

 

 

Talent Management: HR Tech, Day 2: Talking With Glassdoor’s Chief Economist

Comment: “Editor Frank Kalman recaps the second day of the HR Technology Conference & Exposition from Las Vegas.” Includes Glassdoor.

 

 

 

Talent Management: HR Tech, Day 3: Technology Capability Greater Than Its Current Usage

Comment: “Editor Frank Kalman recaps the third day of the HR Technology Conference & Exposition from Las Vegas.” “[R]ecapping the entire show with Mike Prokopeak, Talent Management‘s editor in chief, in the airport before our flight home, some other themes stood out.”

 

 

 

icrunchdata News: People Analytics Help the Employee Engagement Problem  

Comment: “The number of questions that can be answered by analytics is virtually endless. And the answers can provide the necessary insight to help direct an organization to pay more or less attention to particular areas that can have the highest or most immediate impact.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: The Cost of Training Employees Vs. Hiring New Ones [Infographic] 

Comment: “Mindflash put together this infographic that compares the cost of training current employees versus hiring new ones.”

 

 

 

Inc: 9 Smart Habits of Highly Effective Networkers  

Comment: “In the Wall Street Journal recently, Sue Shellenbarger interviewed experts and networkers who were trying to improve their performance about their best practices. Here’s the plan they described, organized in nine easy steps.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: HR Tech: CHRO Perspectives on HR Technology  

Comment: “TINYpulse is live-blogging from the CHRO Perspectives on HR Technology session at the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. This insightful session will help you evaluate HR technology vendors, decide whether to go with established technologies or start-ups, and how to ensure your teams will drive success.”

 

 

 

Fast Company: 6 Rules For Great Storytelling, From A Moth-Approved Master Of The Form  

Comment: “[W]ith Long Story Short hitting shelves and screens everywhere, [Margot] Leitman shares with Fast Company a few key lessons on storytelling from her book.”

 

 

 

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