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- Who are you?
- Business Development Manager for theblueballroom with a real passion for internal communications. Really interested in the application of social media in business
I am also on Twitter @jenniwheller so please join me there too!
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I would like to connect with fellow member of the employee engagement world!
- Website:
- http://www.theblueballroom.com
- Where are you located?
- Farnham, UK
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Look beyond generic engagement tools: focus on personal drivers from employees, group them accordingly and align engagement tools.
The real challenge to engage employees is to gain trust by giving them autonomy to shape their own jobs to their own wishes, interests and strengths but always aligned with an open and transparant organisational vision and strategy.
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.
To begin engagement, sit down with each employee for 40-60 minutes, privately, quietly, and confidentially, and get to know them better -- thei…
I'd appreciate hearing from others on best practices regarding the frequency of employee engagement surveys. I've seen lots of debates on what is the best interval to use for regular measurement and it wouuld help if you could share how often you do…
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I have not read the book but it is on my list. I loved his TED video and embedded it into my site last week. Please feel free to pass on any info. or inspirations.
David
I think the gathering of the community is great and sharing ideas and knowledge are nice but I hope and expect this will transform into a powerful engaged movement creating significant results for employees, organizations, customers, and our members.
David
Congratulation on becoming our 1400th. member. I have always liked the name The Blue Ballroom.
I trust you will find useful information and great people to interact with. I also trust you will jump into the conversations. Let me know if I can assist you.
David