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Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence

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

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Engage together - engage and be engaged: ever seek to understand the business's objectives, employees' objectives and emotions, the objectives and emotions of your other audiences/stakeholders and your own personal objectives and emotions...

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Create challenging assignments for everyone.

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Practice empathic listening.

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Know people as people.

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Remember that it is not tips or techniques, it is knowing that having engaged empoyees can be the difference between survival and all of the other less attractive options.

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Say thank you! It's really that simple. Pay attention to what your colleagues are doing and thank them for their efforts and contributions.

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Create shared values that will inspire people to manage themselves rather than needing to be managed, to the mutual benefit of individual, manager and organisation alike.

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Capture minds (strategy/alignment/results) and Capture hearts (passion/ownership/appreciation).

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GET ME INVOLVED SO THAT IT MATTERS TO ME ...

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Do more than everyone else to engage your employees and only in this way guarantee an exceptional customer experience.

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To all leaders: "Engage Yourself!"

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Add Employee Engagement Values to your company's Mission Statement

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