Restricted Declassified stamp - pixgood.comI’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

Hacking the Management Model: Q+A with Dr. Gary Hamel (Part 2)

Globoforce: “In Part 2 of our Q&A series with WorkHuman speaker Gary Hamel, we talk about how organizations can overcome their ‘core incompetencies.’”

 

 

 

 

Why Management Training Is Crucial For a Leader’s Success

Tiny Pulse: “Successful managers aren’t only good at what they do. They inspire their employees to reach their full potential, and they make those around them good at what they do too. But managers can’t become the best versions of themselves on their own unless they work on developing their leadership qualities.”

 

 

 

The 8 Dimensions of a Thriving Organizational Culture

Tiny Pulse: “The best organizational cultures aren’t built overnight. Now that you understand the importance of establishing a strong organizational culture, let’s take a look at eight tactics you can employ to make sure your culture is an engaging one.”

 

 

 

Engagement Weekly: Why Company-Wide Engagement is Key

Allen Communication: “Learn about the latest in employee engagement within various industries. This week’s influential authors look into the importance of onboarding, how successful CEOs create engaging work environments and how big corporations like Yahoo! suffer from the employee engagement epidemic.”

 

 

 

A Look Back at Effecting Employee Engagement with Goals

Clear Company: “Today we tackle how to create better engagement with your employees by using goals in your organization.”

 

 

 

Top tips to keep hold of your most talented employees

Cambridge Network (UK): “If you’ve worked hard to attract and recruit talented employees, you will need to put in even more work to keep them. While employees will choose to move on for many different reasons, some of which you can’t control, Pure Resourcing has compiled ten top tips on what can be done to help retain valuable members of staff.”

 

 

 

To Be an Authentic Leader, Practice Every Day

Harvard Business Review: “What is authentic leadership? It is a question we are hearing more frequently from participants in our Disney Institute training courses. As today’s organizations and customers place more and more emphasis on transparency, being truly authentic is a real must for all leaders.”

 

 

 

Employee Engagement Relies on This Simple Equation

TeleTech: “We live in an age where ‘trust’ can be strengthened or eliminated very quickly.”

 

 

 

Employee Engagement NRF Infographic

Kronos International: “How retail associates feel about their workplace is more critical than ever to sales, brand image, and customer satisfaction. That’s why retailers who want to stay competitive and relevant to shoppers are using workforce management technology to engage their employees for success.”

 

 

 

“Now wash your hands”: Three ways to look at employee engagement

PersonnelToday.com: “We can really over-engineer things in HR. The jargon, the models of engagement, the diagnostics. Are we creating a veneer of complexity to make ourselves believe we are actually changing things? Lucy Adams presents three simple ways to look at employee engagement.”

 

 

 

What’s the Bottom Line on Employee Engagement?

CMSWire: A discussion of Redwood City, Calif-based Glint and its employee engagement software.

 

 

 

Behind-the-Scenes Look at Twitter’s Employee Onboarding Process

Tiny Pulse: “Today, we turn our attention to Twitter and how the social company approaches onboarding (or at least used to recently).”

 

 

 

20 Things Truly Great Bosses Do Every Day

Inc.: “Think about the best boss you’ve ever known. Here are 20 things I’ll bet he or she never stopped doing.”

 

 

 

Everything You Know About Employee Retention Is Wrong

Tiny Pulse: “As more jobs are being created, employees will be tempted to seek better opportunities. So in order to hold on to your top workers, you’ll need to start strengthening your retention strategies and find ways to improve the work environment. To kick things off for you, we’re debunking nine myths about employee retention.”

 

 

 

Explore the Inner Workings of the Employee Mind

1to1 Media: “1to1 Media, in partnership with SurveyMonkey, polled 511 U.S. consumers to understand how motivation, productivity, and praise impact job satisfaction.” “Here’s what we learned about the current state of employee engagement.”

 

 

 

Don’t bury employee engagement in an HR suite, says Workstride CEO

Diginomica: “Much of the sex appeal in the HR software space is about the “cloud HCM suite.” But Workstride CEO Jim Hemmer has a problem with that. Understandably so – his company specializes in a narrower HR area: employee engagement through recognition and incentives. Hemmer believes that employee engagement is far too important to be an afterthought in a product suite.”

 

 

 

7 Simple Ways to Make Your Coworkers Happy

Tiny Pulse: “If you’re worried that some of your coworkers might not have the best opinion of you, consider making use of these seven tactics:”

 

 

 

A Quiet Revolution in Employee Engagement

Oracle (UK): “Clearly, it’s never been more important to hold on to valued employees, and most businesses will talk about the efforts they make to keep staff happy, productive and engaged. That’s certainly a laudable goal, but recent Oracle research into the state of employee engagement across Western Europe reveals a worrying disconnect between businesses’ ambition to engage workers and their ability to do so.”

 

 

 

Managing Change through Employee Engagement

Avatar Solutions: “These aspects of change often hold true no matter the scale of the change. I was reminded of this recently as my favorite coffee purveyor swapped their outdated electronic payment system for new technology. The change was ostensibly intended to increase security for customers and efficiency of transactions. A win-win for the retailers, their staff, and loyal customers alike. Yet the switch has not come without its challenges.”

 

 

 

How Employee Engagement Helped All MillerCoors Major Breweries Go Landfill-Free

Sustainable Brands: “The Fort Worth Brewery in Texas was the final of its eight sites to reach the milestone, after the facility engaged a ‘Sustainability Employee Council’ that focused on changing employee behaviors and making recycling easier and more accessible.”

 

 

 

 

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