Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence

[David Zinger]

In one sentence only, write the best employee engagement advice you would give to an organization.

[Zane Safrit]

Why not bring out the best in everyone working to create your organization's success?

Arnold's is a great one.

[Johane Desjardins]

Every employee's efforts matter a great deal to your organization; let them know often how important they are and provide as much detail about their individual contribution as you can.

[Carol Wain]

I have taken all responses and put them in a PDF... see attached, if you'd like a copy.
Carol

[Kevin Burns - Attitude Expert]

Hire by values and not by a resume and then teach the good people you've hired how to do the job. People with work-ethic/engagement values will rarely go back on their word to work hard for an organization so hire good people and teach them how to do the job.

(Clive Beddoe's philosophy at WestJet Airlines: "I learned a long time ago that you can't teach people how to have a personality or value others so we just hire people who already know how to do that and then teach them how to do the job.")

[Scot Herrick]

Connect the person's work to the company's goals, know your employees at a personal -- not just work -- level, and provide measurements for the work so the employees know on their own they are succeeding.

[George Reavis]

If you give a person feedback you engage them for a day, but if you teach a person how to ask for feedback (mostly non-verbal) you engage them for a lifetime.

[Krishna Prasad]

Make the employees loyal to the organisation by making them involved and by inculcating a feeling of ownership in them

[Brent Daily]

Take the time to learn each team member's goals and let that drive your decision-making for each individual.

[Samantha Wood]

Empower your team and let them remind you why you hired them.

[Dan Brady]

Employees already know how to improve their work and better serve your customers - just ask them!

[Khalid Ibrahim]

A future-focussed leader is to work like spices to food making impossed business changes simple through people engagement.

[Maryanna Kontaratos]

Build a community that focuses on equity, involvement, achievement, recognition, and career development.