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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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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It is very easy to forget your own journey,share your failings as you grew,treat your team member as a mate inspire him.
Hi Ravi
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Good that your presentation went well, and thanks for sharing your slides.
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response be?
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Understand every member of your teams motivation, align their aspirations to a clearly communicated business direction, give them all the tools to do the job and then empower them to deliver.
Care for people around you and get to know who they are, what strengths they bring and what's important to them.
Every day do a quick maintenance check. Do people know Why?, How?, When? and What? they are doing and are they free to ask these questions of you?.
Check your own engagement regularly. You need support, recognition and inspiration as much as your employees, in order provide an environment that will engage your people fully.
Engagement is a relationship that requires regular maintenance.
Start from where they are at.
Reach out to their hearts and values. Look beyond the Employee ID number and make a genuine effort to see and hear the person.
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