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.

[Jeremiah Soucie]

From an important tenet of branding, everything is important - engage hearts and minds (as already said) and if you find an employee with a tattoo of the company logo on them, then you have an engaged workforce.

[Scott Messer]

Understand and engage conflict; conflict creates clarity.

[Nels Pedersen]

Each individual has a positive contribution for the organization and that contribution connects each individual to the overall success of the organization.

It's some of that new math where 1 + 1 equals 3.

- Nels

[Michelle M. Smith, CPIM, CRP]

Employee engagement is a powerful, under-utilized business tool: give employees purpose, unleash their potential, and the possibilities for you both are endless.

[Kelley Eskridge]

If you can only do one thing, communicate -- give everyone the information, context, explanation, guidance, parameters, updates, and feedback to help them get where they need to go -- clearly, authentically, and in plain language.

[Paul M. Mastrangelo]

Engagement is a byproduct of leaders' collaboration with employees to remove whatever prevents an excellent customer experience.

Paul

[Scott H. Span, MSOD]

Focus on engagement at all times, not just when times are bad or you think you need it-because you always do!

[Michael Kanazawa]

When making strategic changes, look to get people "invested in" the plans up front, not to sell "buy in" to them at the end.

[Susan Stamm]

Make a ripple on the pond by caring, sharing and listening- then watch the ripples grow.

[Susan Robinson]

Earn employees trust.

[Anja Schuetz]

Give your employees reasons to want to be engaged.

[Gregory Kirk]

Commit your organization to transparency and empowerment.