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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Permalink Reply by Trista Smith on -
encourage employees to search within themselves and their organization for the energy, spirit, compassion and knowledge that comes with finding 'what is' versus 'what is not', learn to listen to it and allow it into the everyday.
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Permalink Reply by Trista Smith on
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encourage employees to search within themselves and their organization for the energy, spirit, compassion and knowledge that comes with finding 'what is' versus 'what is not', learn to listen to it and allow it into the everyday.
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Permalink Reply by David Neilly on -
Measure engagement, then find the drivers (e.g. career development, immediate manager), then fix the drivers that are not working well.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Scott on -
Get management to really understand that happier employees are more productive and profitable.
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Permalink Reply by David Marklew on -
If at first you don't engage - try again!
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Permalink Reply by Mike Henry Sr. on
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Share everything you can, information, responsibility, benefits, and rewards because individuals and organizations are measured by what they give, not by what they received.
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Permalink Reply by Rick Pulito on -
Pursue a culture of inclusion, opportunity, and recognition with listening posts that are available, accessible and interactive so as to reinforce the value of individual contribution toward a clearly defined mission.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Melrose on -
People managers need actionable information at their level, in order to help the enterprise drive employee engagement to unprecedented levels and reap all of the rewards.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Miener on -
If you want to measure engagement, make sure you define a customized instrument collaboratively inside the organization and keep away from pre-defined stuff - only broad acceptance in the firm will create valuable responses you can work with.
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Permalink Reply by Cathy Missildine-Martin on -
Understand what drives enagement in your company, how that impacts profit and do more of it!
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Permalink Reply by Kim Fabian on -
Employee engagement can only occur if you sincerely care about your people.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Sansom on -
Do everything as though people matter.
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Interesting question. I'm drawn to less is more, and even that may be too much :) My experience has shown me that the more fearful the organisation is, the more often it seeks to measure as a means to try and stave off the fear. It then often ends u…
I would contend never is too soon.
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Before you start engaging an employee, know him and respect him as an individual first and engagement will follow.
Listen! Zip your mouth. Don't interrupt them when they are opening up to you and expressing there feelings. Remember, its about them not you!
Engagement is to be seen not as an activity but that is the only way the society works.
The management equivalent of ‘Air’ is to practice transparency with team members by managers.
Dr. Jose M F, India, Bangalore
The most important priority for leaders is to cultivate, appreciate, and leverage the vast untapped potential of every employee in their organizations.
If you focus on engagement, productivity will follow. If you focus on productivity, you may not get it.
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