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

Institute for Public Relations: 10 Ways to Create a Corporate Culture for Employee Engagement

Comment: “According to a recent study conducted by Deloitte University Press, culture and employee engagement issues have become the primary challenge in businesses around the world. In fact, business leaders and professionals have long recognized the importance of culture for business success, performance and sustainability.”

 

 

 

 

Forbes: 8 Signs That You Could Be (Accidentally) Over-Working Your Team

Comment: “You’re a new manager and you want to do well in your new job. In your quest to prove that you can handle people management responsibilities (and achieve your department’s objectives), could you be accidentally overworking your team? Here are eight signs to look for.”

 

 

 

Business 2 Community: How You Lost Your Engaged Employees…and How to Win Them Back

Comment: “Every employee starts out wanting to perform well and become an active contributor to the company. However, as a 2014 Gallup poll revealed, 51% of employees in the United States were still “not engaged” and 17.5% were “actively disengaged.” Many companies are grappling with this dilemma, with varying amounts of success.”

 

 

 

Diginomica: HR Tech lessons #3: Employee engagement, a management problem

Comment: “Employee engagement is one of those awful sounding topics that points the finger of blame in the wrong direction, at employees instead of considering management’s culpability. When will HR tech vendors solve for this?”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: Which State Has the Happiest Employees?

Comment: “Being happy at work almost sounds like an unattainable dream.” “Here’s the ranking of happiest employees by state.”

 

 

 

Ere Media: Best of HR Roundtable: The Struggle With Defining Employee Engagement  

Comment: “The people gathering for the March HR Roundtable in Cincinnati were faced with “change” because Steve was called away for a great event recognizing one of his Team Members, so his best friend and mentor, Fred Eck, stepped in to tackle the topic of defining Employee Engagement.”

 

 

 

15Five: How to Drive Employee Engagement Via a Culture of Sharing

Comment: “As you read on, you’ll find the three steps that are essential for creating a culture of sharing. Each new step intertwines and builds upon the other. As a system they can significantly improve employee engagement throughout your organization.”

 

 

 

Training Journal: Top five tips to maximise employee engagement in a digital world

Comment: “The ebook, entitled: Top five tips to maximise employee engagement in a digital world, looks at why employee engagement matters and why it is good for business.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: Employee Retention Strategies You Need in Your Game Plan

Comment: “If you worry about your employees sticking around, you need to make changes fast. There’s no time to wait and see if employees actually start leaving — once they do, it will be even harder to recover. Here are three subtle signs that your employee retention strategy may be lacking.”

 

 

 

Huffington Post: Employee Engagement: The New Source of Competitive Advantage  

Comment: “Employee engagement has become a hot management topic. Engaged employees, who willingly perform beyond what is set out in their job description, are perceived as the new source of competitive advantage. This is particularly the case in the high-contact service sector where employee behavior can have a critical effect on customer behavior, brand loyalty and overall on brand reputation.”

 

 

 

Compensation Café: How to Alleviate Bad Days at Work

Comment: “Here are the top answers in response to the question, “The last time you had a bad day at work, which factors in the workplace made it bad?””

 

 

 

Fast Company: PeopleSpark Gets Managers And Employees Talking So Everyone Is Happier

Comment: “PeopleSpark, which just launched, wants to foster and measure that happiness using survey software. Designed to be a conduit between managers and their teams, the surveys encourage workers to feel like they’re heard, then summarize all that feedback data for executives up the corporate ladder. By keeping tabs on employee satisfaction, PeopleSpark aims to quantifiably increase employee engagement and retention.”

 

 

 

Aetna: Big ideas: Bertolini talks tech, innovation and employee engagement (Video 5:50)

Comment: “Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark Bertolini was interviewed by David Kirkpatrick at the Techonomy Detroit conference about the future of health care and the importance of investing in employees. Bertolini spoke about a number of different topics during the wide-ranging interview, including innovative ideas to improve the health care system, how Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana can create a better health care experience for consumers, and the company’s decision to improve wages and medical benefits for thousands of Aetna employees.”

 

 

 

Business & Legal Resources: Cultivating a culture of wellness is integral to employee engagement

Comment: “Drawing from Weight Watchers’ extensive experience creating healthier workplaces, we’ve found that in order to reach the highest level of employee engagement, employers need to cultivate a culture of wellness. Such a culture must be embedded in the strategic vision of the organization, stemming from the top. It should entice employees to action with a holistic approach towards nutrition, exercise, and weight loss.”

 

 

 

Business 2 Community: The 12 Things You Need For Successful Employee Recognition  

Comment: “Employee recognition is one of the most powerful employee engagement and retention tools you have at your disposal. It’s your key to leveling the playing field.”

 

 

 

Tiny Pulse: The 21 Building Blocks of Effective Feedback [Infographic]  

Comment: “Here are the 21 building blocks you need to ensure your performance reviews are actually effective.”

 

 

 

Gallup: Who Drives Employee Engagement — Manager or CEO?

Comment: “A recent Wall Street Journal article explored a unique situation at Twitter. The eminent tech company’s analysis of its internal data, conducted by Twitter’s “people scientists,” indicated that “Instead of managers being the primary driver of engagement, our CEO was the primary driver of engagement.” To what extent is this the case for organizations in general?”

 

 

 

Noggin Labs: How to drive employee engagement with better e-learning

Comment: “E-learning has the ability to not only educate people on how to do their jobs, but enlighten them on all the benefits of doing their jobs well.”

 

 

 

Entrepreneur: From Ordinary to Awesome Employee-Manager One-to-One’s

Comment: “[H]ow do you as a manager-leader, have awesome one-to-ones that both you and your employees don’t dread? Here are five tips to keeping those meetings fresh and awesome.”

 

 

 

Tech.co: What Amazon’s Employee Feedback System Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement

Comment: “Most business professionals know that employee engagement is important. They also know that employee engagement is historically low on management’s priority list. This is how Amazon went from being a notoriously difficult place to work to one that’s become one of the most enjoyable.”

 

 

 

 

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