Folders Showing Organising Documents Filing And ReportsPreviously, we considered 3 Ways to Learn the Latest About Employee Engagement. In that post, Google Alerts, Feedly, and Nuzzel were featured as ways to find information on employee engagement.  In this post, I’ll offer some insights into the sources I use and how I consolidate them for easy reference.

 

Over the last three years, I’ve come across many employee engagement sources.  Below are sites I reference most often in terms of the content they provide.

 

Blogs/Sites Followed by Agent In Engagement

Bonusly – The easiest way to recognize and reward employees. Increase employee engagement and retention.1

CultureAmp – Optimize your employee survey experience through simple, intuitive UX and intelligence analytics. Engagement, Recruitment, Onboarding and Exit surveys.2

Globoforce – Globoforce is the leader in employee recognition. Our solutions drive employee engagement, employee retention and corporate culture.3

Greenhouse – Greenhouse is an applicant tracking system and recruiting software designed to help you find better candidates and improve your entire recruiting process.4

LinkedIn Talent Blog – Recruiting strategy, tips, and trends.5

Maritz Motivation Solutions – Long considered a leader in sales incentives, channel loyalty, customer loyalty and employee engagement, Maritz Motivation Solutions designs simple-to-use, next generation solutions based on the science of human behavior and the art of program design.6

Recognize This! – Another Globoforce Blog about employee recognition and its results.7

Tiny pulse – The leading employee engagement platform offers innovative pulse surveys, peer recognition, and performance reviews to boost retention and your bottom line.8

 

 

Magazines Referenced by Agent In Engagement

Entrepreneur Magazine – Entrepreneur magazine is the premier source for everything small business.9

Fast Company – Fast Company is the world’s leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership, and design. Written for, by, and about the most progressive business leaders, Fast Company and FastCompany.com inspire readers and users to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations, and create the future of business.10

Forbes Magazine – Beyond our famed, must–know lists – richest people, powerful women, biggest companies — Forbes magazine maintains a unique voice in its coverage of global business stories. Whether it’s reporting on the “next facebook” or scrutinizing a new tax law, we cover stories with uncanny insight and conciseness that hurried business folks appreciate immensely. Read Forbes if you want rigorous, to–the–point business analysis, published especially for those who don’t want to read piles of business facts but need to know what to make of them.11

Huffington Post – The destination for news, blogs and original content offering coverage of US politics, entertainment, style, world news, technology and comedy.12

Inc. – get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow.13

 

 

How to Consolidate These (And Other) Sources For Easy Reference

The more blogs/sites to which you subscribe, the more emails you will receive.  Rather than clog my inbox and then have to search through it for these employee engagement resources, I filter them so that they are automatically filed in a single folder.  This keeps all of the content in one, easily accessible place. Let me walk you through how I do that using Gmail.  If you use, another email program, check their help section for instructions.

 

Gmail Filter Instructions

“You can manage your incoming mail using Gmail’s filters to send email to a label, or archive, delete, star, or automatically forward your mail.

Create a filter

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. In the search box at the top, click the Down arrow.
  3. Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, see what emails show up by clicking Search. 
  4. At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter with this search.
  5. Choose what you’d like the filter to do.
  6. Click Create filter.

Note: When you create a filter to forward messages, only new messages will be affected.  Additionally, when someone replies to a message you’ve filtered, the reply will only be filtered if it meets the same search criteria.

Use a particular message to create a filter

  1. Open Gmail.
  2. Check the checkbox next to the email you want.
  3. Click More.
  4. Click Filter messages like these.
  5. Enter your filter criteria.”14

 

Tip

After clicking Create filter with this search, I check:

  • Skip the Inbox (Archive it)
  • Apply the label: Employee Engagement (Note this is a folder that I created earlier. You can use any folder(s) that make sense to you.)
  • I check the box next to Also apply filter to matching conversations.
  • Then I click Create filter.

 

Here is a screenshot for reference:

Gmail Filter Options screenshot

 

 

I hope you’ll find the employee engagement blogs/sites above useful and that you’ll be able to organize your employee engagement-related emails into a central location for easy reference.

 

What employee engagement-related blogs/sites do you follow?  How do you manage that information?

 

1 “Bonusly – Reimagine Employee Recognition.” Bonusly – Reimagine Employee Recognition. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
2 “Find the Insights You Need to Help Employees succeed.” Culture Amp. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
3 “Employee Recognition and Rewards | Globoforce.” Globoforce. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
4 “Recruiting Software – Applicant Tracking System | Greenhouse Software.” Greenhouse Software. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
5 “Your Source for Remarkable Recruiting Strategies, Tips, and Trends.” Talent Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
6 “We Believe in the Power of Human Connection.” About. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
7 Irvine, Derek. “About Us.” RecognizeThis Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
8 “TINYpulse: Employee Engagement Surveys & Performance Management.” TINYpulse: Employee Engagement Surveys & Performance Management. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
9 “Entrepreneur Magazine.” Entrepreneur. N.p., n.d. Web. 132 Oct. 2016.
10 “About Us.” Fast Company. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
11 “About Us.” Forbes Magazine Subscription. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
12 “Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post …” Huffington Post. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
13 “Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs.” Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
14 “Create Rules to Filter Your Emails.” Gmail Help. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

 

 

 

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