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Many of my clients tell me that engaged employees ask questions about how to make themselves better, improve and are constantly seeking candor and evaluations. Disengaged employees tend to just do their work without much enthusiasm and are often i...
What a great topic with fantastic responses. Our business has of course been affected, although not as much as i thought it would. I have asked my employees for feedback about going into new markets, conferences, and more. The result is a 20% incr...
Terry,
Thanks for your input. I think you are right. I find that some of my hr clients tell me that they feel like it is a tough job, but one that the would never change. I am actually heading to the national shrm conference in late june. Anyone ...
A big challenge that HR professionals face is to contribute in a meaningful way to their company. There are many ways that HR can contribute, including talent management: acquiring talent, developing talent, engaging and retaining talent. As a tal...
As someone who constantly works with HR professionals in a variety of different businesses, I am interested to know what the biggest challenge you face as an HR professional.
Thanks for the input.
Josh Gair - Impact Entertainment
www.impactenter...
I too have noticed that more clients have come to me for entertainment for their employee events as opposed to giving out cash bonuses and employees underdstand this and recognize it as necessary. I also think it is something more creative than mo...
This group is for those who want to learn more about best practice employee recognition and to share ideas on this important engagement tool
Profile Information
- Who are you?
- I run Impact Entertainment, which is a full service talent company that books local and big name celebrities for corporate events around the world. We generally work with human resource people and often their goals are to ehance employee productivity and they use entertainment as an incentive and for corporate parties and conventions too. I love what I do and have been in the entertainment biz for over a decade. I travel a bit meeting with clients all over.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I provide local and celebrity entertainment for corporate events worldwide.
- Website:
- http://www.impactentertains.com
- Where are you located?
- Orlando, FL
Check out my blog! It is helpful when putting together employee events.
www.impactentertains.wordpress.com
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 7:45am on April 9, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Joshua,
I am glad you joined us and we certainly need your services for corporations and organizations to keep a constructive and healthy balance as opposed to pure doom and gloom. I look forward to your interactions and contributions. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
David
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I summarized some high-level thought leadership from firms such as DDI, McKinsey, Towers Perrin, and Hewitt in my latest blog post. These are all papers from the last several months discussing engagement: bit.ly/3a4uft
I know that Towers Perrin a...
Thanks a lot for your help !
I actually did have a look on Gallup's 12 Questions, the only worry is that it measures more the enablers of employee engagement than employee engagement itself. I have however grouped the items into themes, and only o...
Not sure if this is the same as the one mentioned but Gallup has 12 Questions that they use.
http://www.workforce.com/section/09/article/23/53/40.html
Hi Maggie,
Acually we have a training module for this exact circumstance. We call it cynics, victims and bystanders it is part of The Conversations Workshop. We wrote a book last year called Authentic Conversations which has a great deal to say ab...
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