DECLASSIFIED - Wikimedia CommonsI’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.

 

 

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

 

 

SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE

How and Why You Need to Recognize Your Executives

Bonusly: “For leaders with greater influence, continuous personal improvement and targeted motivation can have a significant impact on an organization. Senior leaders make excellent champions and role models for receiving recognition as well as giving it.”

 


 

 

A performance review revolution

CultureAmp: “We’ve recently released an ebook, Making performance reviews work: Culture Amp’s guide to effective employee performance evaluation and development where we step through in detail why traditional approaches to performance management don’t work and the six steps to designing a new approach that does. Here are some highlights.”

 

 

4 Things the Most Respected Leaders Do for Their Employees

Inc.: “These common human traits seem so logical in every day relationships. Why are they so rare to find in bosses?”

 

 

Someone Important Just Quit-Here’s What To Do, In This Order

Fast Company: “Your step-by-step guide to moving on without letting your whole team go down in flames.”

 

 

This Week in Employee Engagement: June 30, 2017

Maritz Motivation Solutions: “The utter explosion of digital content presents countless opportunities for learning. Start here to narrow down your search each week in the often overwhelming landscape of employee engagement thought leadership.”

 

 

Engagement Weekly: Trying to Find a Balance

Allen Communication: “Learn about the latest in employee engagement within various industries. This week’s influential authors look at some examples of companies who are trying to balance results with engagement. They also take a look at what different employees within the company can do to improve engagement.”

 

 

7 Essential Employee Engagement Questions For HR Managers

Office Vibe: “[T]he employee engagement questions that we urge HR managers to keep a pulse on are very human-centric, including themes such as values, ethics, equality, company mission and organizational culture.”

 

 

We Favored IQ Over EQ Far Too Long to Get Here

Huffington Post: “If we go back to the start of Industrial Age, organizations, governments, leaders of that time believed in command-control and that a selective minority should dictate others what to do at work. They believed people who are “intelligent” had to rule those who are not as “smart”. This mindset stayed true for a very long time and still is present in the front offices of many organizations.” “However, we totally disregarded, for the most part, people who had higher emotional intelligence (EQ) that bring emotions, empathy, purpose, compassion, connection, intuition, humanistic values to the workplace.”

 

 

“Work Sucks,” Says Ex-Google HR Head: 6 Tips to Change That

LinkedIn Talent Blog: ““Work sucks,” says Laszlo Bock—Google’s SVP of People Operations from 2005 to 2016—speaking at the SHRM 2017 Conference.” “Here are Laszlo’s six ways that HR professionals and recruiters can make work a better, happier place to be.”

 

 

Engaging the disengaged leaders is key to employee engagement

Racoteur: “The pivotal importance of engaged leadership must not be overlooked in the drive to achieve employee engagement.”

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Let’s Engage! 

I’m Agent in Engagement Simpson…Gregory F Simpson.

Employee engagement is a critical mission. I hope I can count on your help! Subscribe to the RSS Feed to receive the latest intelligence/insights and/or register to make entries in the comments log.

Photo of Gregory F SimpsonYou can follow me @agtinengagement.
Email me at g…@a…t.com.
Connect via LinkedIn at LinkedIn.com/in/GregoryFSimpson.
Learn more about me at gregoryfsimpson.com.

 

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: