Best Employee Engagement - Monthly Spotlight Articles - Red

In March, our Employee Engagement Briefings highlighted 40 employee engagement-related articles. Each week, one article is selected as the Spotlight Article. Here is a recap of the Spotlight Articles of March 2019.






How to Build and Maintain a Successful Employee Recognition Program

Bonusly: “Implementing a successful employee recognition program can give your organization a decisive competitive advantage. Employee recognition has been shown to improve engagement, reduce turnover, increase productivity, and more. You want a recognition program, but where do you start?”





Psychological Safety: The Key to High-Performing Teams

OfficeVibe: “Credit for coining the phrase belongs to the brilliant Amy C. Edmondson, who defines it as “a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.” In other words, psychologically safe teams trust each other to experiment without judgement, voice opinions without being shamed, and fail without being labelled a failure.” “Psychological safety takes time and a deliberate effort to develop and maintain on your team.”





How to Improve Team Effectiveness

Skip Prichard: “Simon Mac Rory’s new book, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: The Imperative of Teams, takes us on a journey to deliver improved team effectiveness. Simon Mac Rory is a team development specialist and founder of the ODD Company. He says that sometimes, when he’s in a room with some teams, he says, “For Pete’s sake will you wake up and smell the coffee” which is how the title of his new book came to be. I recently asked Simon to share more about his perspectives of teams in the workplace.”





4 Reasons Talented Employees Don’t Reach Their Potential

Harvard Business Review: “The truth is that most people are not even bothered to try their best after they have been on the job for more than six months, a time-frame known as the honeymoon period. Although there are many reasons for this, here are four common causes of under-performance and how to address them.”






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