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I’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
How Smart CEOs Use Employee Engagement Surveys
Forbes: “CEOs don’t get many chances to hear the unfiltered voices of their employees. So when you’re conducting your next employee engagement survey, don’t let that opportunity slip by.”
The Employee Engagement Problem No One Is Talking About
Business 2 Community: “Offering resources to help managers become better and holding them accountable to make sure they use the resources is important to making sure employees can work in a good environment.”
3 Steps to Strengthen Peer Recognition
Recognize This!: “Recognition of one’s peers can be daunting at first, but these steps can help employees build their skill and competency to achieve greater benefits.”
The DNA of Engagement: Highly Engaging Leaders Cultivate Purpose, Pride, Passion and Personal Fit to Make Great Companies
Bulldog Reporter: “Researchers identified over twenty traits intimately linked to building a highly engaging culture in virtually all of the surveyed organizations. Eight core elements, however, emerged as fundamental building blocks.”
Why Hiring for Culture Fit Is Vital for a Company’s Success
Tiny Pulse: “According to the Society of Human Resource Management, hiring someone who is a poor cultural fit can cost businesses anywhere from 50% to 60% of that person’s salary.”
What Makes a Good Manager: The Case for Listening and Assessing Skills
ATD (blog): “In a recent poll conducted by ATD, learning executives indicated that one of the most important skill areas for managers is listening and assessment skills.”
The Shocking Secret to Great Teams Is Talented People Being Nice
Tiny Pulse: “By creating a values-based organizational culture and norms, we can reduce the frequency of incivility in people’s lives.”
The Top 5 Signs Your Employee Engagement Survey Needs an Overhaul
Tiny Pulse: “When used correctly, employee engagement surveys can help organizations keep their fingers on the pulse of their workforce, making sure morale is high and people are satisfied — which in turn makes teams more productive. When is the last time you took a look at your employee engagement surveys?”
HR Tech World’s disruptHR: the ones to watch
Personnel Today: “For the last three HR Tech World events, Faye Holland has interviewed and assessed dozens of companies who believe they have something unique to offer. Here she provides a whistlestop tour of the contenders in last week’s disruptHR contest at the HR Tech World Spring congress in London.”
Apply Three Easy Practices to Accelerate Employee Engagement
3BL Media: “This is the fifth in a continuing blog series based on insights and findings from the Sodexo 2016 Workplace Trends Report. The Report examines nine key trends affecting business outcomes and the quality of life of employees and consumers. To learn more, access the full article: Redefining Employee Engagement through Recognition.”
How to Boost Employee Engagement
Onrec: “Before you start trying to boost engagement, it’s important to remember that no two people are motivated by the same thing. What drives emotional commitment to a job or organisation is dependant on an individual’s values, but there are a few things that you can do to help.”
Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
The Cooper Review: “If you, too, want to hire the world’s best top tech talent, try one of these secret hiring strategies.”
5 Big Mistakes New Team Leads Should Avoid
Bonusly: “Here are five mistakes that new team leads often make, and some easy ways to keep from making them.”
4 Ways Excellent Managers Brilliantly Execute Their Team Plans
LinkedIn Pulse: “The key is to focus on these four key principles: Clarity, Competence, Commitment and Consistency.”
The Telltale Warning Signs a Star Employee Is Ready to Quit
Tiny Pulse: “But how are you supposed to know whether an employee might be thinking about severing ties with your company? If you notice any of the following changes in behavior, you may want to pull your employee aside and have a conversation to see how they’re doing.”
Survey: Give employees a reason to stay, or risk losing them
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “What makes employees want to stay? When organizations focus on what really matters – connection, alignment and execution.”
3 Companies With the Most Unique Employee Onboarding Practices
Tiny Pulse: “How much attention are you paying to your company’s own onboarding program? Taking a look at how three well-known companies approach onboarding may inspire you to make some improvements.”
What really hurts productivity?
Recognize This!: “Inadvertently placing unnecessary rules on employee behavior, instead of offering more freedom, can hurt productivity.”
Enough of the ‘why’ on employee engagement, give me some ‘how’
Fast Casual: “Creating engagement doesn’t need to be abstract, however, because the basics of engaging a workforce are commonly recognized business principles. Author and former high-tech executive Kevin Kruse, who has written three books on employee engagement, distills engagement down to three basic elements. They are communication, recognition and growth. Supplemented by new technologies, they help create workforces with a motivation to stay with their employer for longer and do their best work.”
CCRRC Releases Fourth Employee Engagement Video Installment
Convenience Store Decisions: The fourth installment of the CCRRC North America NACS video, which is entitled “Even Small Accomplishments Deserve Recognition,” expresses the importance of demonstrating appreciation for your employees, and celebrating employee success and their accomplishments. Celebrating your employees’ accomplishments is of vital importance.
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Other recent Agent in Engagement data/reports by Agent Gregory F Simpson:
- Veteran Employee Engagement Operative Insights: 03.21 – 2016.03.25
- Are You Committing Fouls or Scoring Employee Engagement Points?
- 16 Sweet Ways You Can Score With Employee Engagement
- What Can You Learn From the Superboss Playbook?
- March Forth on Employee Appreciation
- Employee Engagement: Where to Start?
- Stop Talking About Discretionary Effort!
