Hello Martha,
I am pleased to have you join us from King's College. I would love to hear what you are learning about employee engagement. I encourage you to jump into the conversations and I trust you will find what you are looking for here.
David
Hi Martha, welcome to the network. What kind of bike? Interesting profile. I set up and ran the CSR team for BT Wholesale a few short years ago. EE linked to CSR is great fun, did lots of stuff in that space and I wrote the stakeholder engagement chapter of our group sustainability report last year. Happy to share some ideas if you want to give me a framework for your dissertation?
Interesting question. I'm drawn to less is more, and even that may be too much :) My experience has shown me that the more fearful the organisation is, the more often it seeks to measure as a means to try and stave off the fear. It then often ends u…
I would contend never is too soon.
If you understand what engagement is and how to achieve it, then you know what an engaged employee sounds like and acts like as compared to one who is somewhat engaged or disengaged. Surveys turn people off while…
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.
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…
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I am pleased to have you join us from King's College. I would love to hear what you are learning about employee engagement. I encourage you to jump into the conversations and I trust you will find what you are looking for here.
David