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Mike Lover is 33 years old, educated and is now jobless. Read the new series about Mike's unemployment journey. http://www.employeefactor.com/?p=1081
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My sense is that "employee engagement" that is driven by "a belief that their work is changing the world" puts employee engagement out of reach of most companies. Most people will only ever view their jobs as jobs - not as missions. In my experien...
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Employee Engagement is driven by a belief that their work is changing the world.
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So how does a company become nurturing and fully engaging internally? The short answer is through understanding and building an environment where employees feel like valued assets. Companies need to make sincere efforts to understand their employe...
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At EMC, we're experiencing wonders by using social media for employee engagement. On our internal social network, we have more than 60% of the company connecting, collaborating, sharing, mentoring, and innovating. The employees have created over 1...
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Wow there's some good stuff in here. I suggest that this bottom 10% may not self correct by leaving of their own accord. Increasingly we are seeing that these people (oh dear I'm starting to create an underclass here....tread carefully) tend to ha...
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At 10:06pm on December 27, 2008, Stefan Pacula said…
Hi Judy, a year later I'm responding! We use the Q12 survey from Gallup, it is a very key measure for us, and we spend a considerable amount of time with action plans around the 12 Q's.
At 12:25am on June 29, 2008, Jon Hoel said…
Hi Judy,

I was interested to read the discussion thread you started around social media.

I've since set up a group on social media in the workplace. It would be great if you could stop by.
At 7:15pm on June 5, 2008, Judy McLeish said…
Warren - thanks for clarifying! Wow, it certainly sounds like you have your work cut out for you. You are right the government is doing some very interesting things around engagement. In fact, Canada Post is doing leading edge engagement work as well.

I would love to have a dialogue with you. We have done engagement work in the banking sector which is also a very difficult challenge as many of the workers are unionized and it is difficult to build engaged employees who deliver banking products and services.

Let me know if there is a time next week. I would be happy to call you to discuss what you are doing.

Judy
At 6:49pm on June 5, 2008, Warren Young said…
Judy I apologize for causing confusion. But I don't work for the ANZ bank. I used to work for a bank later acquired by them, and my sister does - but I don't. I'd meant to associate with the NZ part of the banks name. My apologies.
However I'd still be very keen to establish dialogue with you. I work in central government on employee engagement. I spent much of the past year getting government agencies on board using the survey tool and our focus is intensively on building engagement. After all its not about the measurement, but what we do in response.

We have established some baselines and clearly we have some significant challenges ahead in terms of building from fairly low starting points. So I'm keen to hear of case studies of transformations - particularly in the government context if you know of any. I understand the Canadian government has done some good work in this area. We are actually using a Canadian government model (Citizens First) as the basis to measure our customer engagement.
I look forward to sharing with you.
At 4:01am on June 5, 2008, Warren Young said…
Hi Judy from NZ. The smaller end of the ANZ bank you blogged about earlier in the year. I enjoyed your recent blog posts too. Life is more fun when we turn things on their heads.
I also came across your very good media presentation on Youtube many weeks back. Its very nice to meet the creator of that, which really inspired me. Great job Judy!
At 6:13pm on April 28, 2008, Judy McLeish said…
Great to hear from you! Looking forward to hearing more about your idea.
At 6:06pm on April 28, 2008, Zane Safrit said…
Nice to see you here. At some point, in the next week I'd like to run an idea by you for a book I'm working on. Nothing urgent.
At 11:36am on April 9, 2008, Lisa Forsyth said…
Hi Judy - Thanks for the welcome. I am currently working on a post that should give you some insight into what we are doing at MSNBC.com with respect to employee engagement.

Stay tuned - I'm currently buried in fiscal planning for next year.

-Lisa
At 8:43am on March 15, 2008, Terrence Seamon said…
OK, Judy. Blog entry published:

http://learningvoyager.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-engage-employees-part-1.html

And it's the start of a new series.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Terry
At 9:06am on March 13, 2008, Terrence Seamon said…
Judy,
I'm well into reading The Dream Manager at last. Thanks so much for recommending it. I am really enjoying it! Once I finish, I am planning to blog about it.
Terry

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Judy is the founder of McDaniel Partners, a consulting services firm, that helps companies build customer experiences that enhance their long-term competitive positioning through creating engaged and committed employees.
What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
Helping companies create powerful customer experiences and engaged and committed employees
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http://www.employeefactor.com
Where are you located?
Toronto

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Young, Educated and Jobless

Mike Lover is 33 years old, educated and is now jobless. Read the new series about Mike's unemployment journey.

Read the second post in the series - Fired: Flicked Away.

Read the third post in the series - The Emotional Job Roller-coaster.

Posted on September 21, 2009 at 12:30pm —

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ANZ Bank Knows Engagement Levels - Do You?

Do you know how many of your employees are willing to be advocates for your business, are committed to staying with you, and are motivated to contribute their best to your organization every day? Could you map how many of your employees are high performers?


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Posted on January 30, 2008 at 9:06am —

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Google's #1 Again!

At the Employee Factor, we love Google. Why? Google made Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" 2008 list. That’s number one for the second year running and it seems to me that you can’t be number one unless you have a happy and engaged workforce.


After all, as part of the selection procedure, 400 employees (selected at random) had to answer a 57-question survey that covered the gamut from job satisfac

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Posted on January 29, 2008 at 5:41pm — 2 Comments

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To Cull or Not to Cull Bottom Perfomers...


At the Employee Factor, we thought we should ask - should you "cull or not cull" your bottom performers.


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