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Hello Anja:
"could you elaborate a bit on the reason why employees are the most likely to change their behavior?"
Employees are more likely change their behaviors when told to do so since they know they can be fired. That said, the change may we...
Hi Bob,
could you elaborate a bit on the reason why employees are the most likely to change their behavior? Aren't supervisors and managers and most executives also "employees"? From your post I understand that there's sort of a ranking - with th...
If we want our employees to be engaged, we need the following.
1. Executives to do their jobs well.
2. Managers to do their jobs well.
3. Supervisors to do their jobs well.
4. Employees to do their jobs well.
Therefore, if we are serious about h...
Hello Ben:
I wrote "Executives who believe they can teach their employees to be leaders will have a much harder time creating effective leaders than executives who hire for leadership talent as well as competence."
"Sorry to disagree, but I have...
Hello George:
"... it became clear that leadership behaviors are as teachable as other types of behaviors."
We can always teach wannabe leaders and others how to behave--that is easy--but will they behave that way all of the time under all condi...
Hello Ana-Maria:
"... See what engagement brings NEW to the scientific AND business world."
There is nothing new except the terms we use.
"Why do we need engagement, when we have the constructs of satisfaction, commitment, involvment and motiva...
Employee engagement is what we get in return for hiring employees with talent for their jobs and then managing them effectively.
Hiring for talent is the easy part, managing them effectively is the hard part.
Hello Vandy:
"I recently wrote a critique on external benchmarking in employee surveys. My view is that its damaging and distracting."
It is distracting and it may or may not be damaging but why risk either?
Are employee surveys effective at id...
Hello Richard:
Our clients build an engaged workforce by first hiring for talent. Most hiring managers don't measure talent so they hire for competence and then complain that some new hires are less successful than they had expected.
If employee...
Hello Adam:
"The driver is that some employees, when various other things are equal..."
I agree, but there are so many other things that lead to engagement that the other things are rarely equal.
"It is not easy to provide real tangible, numerical...
Hello Adam:
"... one of the many drivers behind this movement is recruiting, retaining (etc) employees by being a more responsible company."
Do you hire for competence or competence plus talent?
If you hire for competence plus talent how do you...
Hello David:
I agree with you.
Employees can be...
1. satisfied or unsatisfied
2. successful or unsuccessful
3. engaged or unengaged
One of the two states in all three items above may apply to any employee except engaged and unsuccessful. There...
From what I have been reading about employee engagement I think the answer to your question may be Yes.
Employee engagement is not something employers or their employees do.
Employee engagement is something employers get in return for doing all ...
"... Using a standard bell shaped curve of the organisation ( and in line with normal distribution in an organisation) I suggest that 20% of employees will be somewhat engaged, 20% will be somewhat disengaged and the 60% in the middle will be neit...
Hello Terrence:
"employee engagement seems to be somewhat of a catchall term for simply getting more effort out of people."
I think you are correct and employee engagement is just the latest phrase used by managers to convince others that "we re...
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- At 7:13am on March 17, 2009,
Terrence Seamon said…
- Bob,
Welcome to the Manager Tools group!
Terry
- At 3:24pm on March 16, 2009,
David Zinger said… - Bob:
Welcome to the employee engagement network. I am pleased you joined us. I appreciate how you have replied to two forums already and left a comment for another member. I said to myself, "here is a guy who gets engaged." Thank you for joining and participating.
David
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I think we all generally agree that engaged employees are a powerful force for delivering company success. I think we all also agree that you cannot force employees to engage. You can, however, create work environments and cultures in which employ...
Treat people the way they want to be treated, not the way you want to be treated.
I am looking for some discussion topics. I have a team that really needs to come together as a group. (or, I have a group that really needs to come together as a team). I've done a few team building activities, but this time, I would like to have ...
Great word ownership, Kurt.
Without a strong sense of ownership by the employee we don't get their full engagement, their complete commitment to the work.
The formula for employee ownership for any boss is to listen to the employee and that give...
Remember, recognition is free. It's not material. It's a communication tool. I agree with Ben that employees need a voice and a safe place to use it. They also want some ownership in the processes and acknowledgment that the tasks they perform mea...
Recognition is important, but possibly not in the way you think. Rewards have negative effects down the road no matter how good they look. On this subject, read Alfie Kohn's "Punished by Rewards".
I managed people for over 30 years. In order to s...
I think recognising your staff becomes all the more important in today's climate of budget cuts, pressures and downsizing. We all want to feel valued, both as employees and human beings, and to have someone else say 'thank you, your continued supp...
Hi Leigh
I am an Employee Engagement Specialist in the department of Organizational Effectiveness. I work for a company about the size that you are looking for. We began kicking off employee engagement surveys last April. As of now we have a year...
... master the art of asking questions!
Teach your employees how to Manage Up: Some people think this is brown nosing, but it's really about helping your boss understand who you are.
Angela,
I think recognition is always essential but we have to look at the deeper reason why. Reward and recognition confirms value. Every human being wants to know, "Does my life matter?" This is the questions we help answer when we reward and re...
Be real, don't use jargon, and be honest. If something is going to hurt people would rather be prepared!
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