Best Employee Engagement - Monthly Spotlight Articles - RedIn August, our Employee Engagement Briefings highlighted 50 employee engagement-related articles. Each week, one article is selected as the Spotlight Article. Here is a recap of the Spotlight Articles of August 2018.

 

 

 

 

The Real Bottom Line Impact of Managing Talent Through Freedom, Not Fear

15Five: “To succeed in this new age, businesses must be freedom-centered (engaging, responsive, efficient, and adaptive). Outdated practices for managing talent based on control and fear only make meeting the new challenges harder.”

 

 

 

 

How Better People Practices Can Bring a 6x Return on Investment

Greenhouse: “Within the world of People and Talent, it’s traditionally been tough to demonstrate the concept of ROI. It’s difficult to assign value to people objectively and there are too many variables. But here at Greenhouse we’ve been giving this a lot of thought, which is why Senior Director of Growth Marketing Lauren Ryan recently presented “How to Understand the ROI of Investing in Your People.” In this webinar, Lauren set out to answer the question: ‘What is our story as People practitioners for the return we’re going to provide if we get a particular investment?’”

 

 

 

 

Want To Fix Your Company Culture? Get A GAME Plan

Forbes: “A Cultural GAME Plan provides cultural rituals so a person knows how to stay in the tribe (be safe and belong) and gain status (matter) in each of these four key areas. It not only establishes trust at the cultural level but it also supports a fulfilling work experience, which will yield the happiest and most committed, productive, loyal, long-term, constantly evolving emotionally agile team members. You deserve this. So do they.”

 

 

 

 

What Every Business Needs to Learn From Google to Optimize Its People

Entrepreneur: “Google recognizes maximizing output from its employees is the most important aspect of its business.”

 

 

 

 

Using the Positivity Ratio to Improve Team Performance

Bonusly: “The concept of a “Positivity Ratio” comes from the field of positive psychology, the study of human flourishing in all aspects of life. But how can a team use the Positivity Ratio to improve their performance?

 

 

 

 

Fellow Agents, what are your thoughts on this month’s must-read intelligence? What must-reads would you suggest?

 

 

 

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