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What is engagement?
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I recently was given a book entitled "ENGAGED! How leaders build organizations where employees love to come to work" by Peter Barron Stark and Jane Flaherty. Good luck
As someone who focuses on engagement for 450+ employees, I think about it at a very personal, human level. With that perspective, engagement is liking what I do, liking who I do it for and having an optimistic (confident) outlook for my future.
We developed a recognition program in 2007 based on a quarterly monetary award. In 2008, we evolved the program to focus on the attributes, behaviors and contributions of our employees and removed the pure financial award. We now offer a peer nomi...
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- Who are you?
- After spending 20+ years in the financial services business, I now handle employee engagement programs and promotion for a business unit of 550 employees here in the US and Ireland.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Program development and support
- Website:
- http://www.seic.com
- Where are you located?
- Oaks, Pennsylvania
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- At 2:24pm on February 11, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Maureen:
You asked if there was more to my comment below.
I think when we survey the survey itself needs to be engaging. I have seen too many organization where people are cynical of the surveys or I see the survey not being used as an action step in the engagement cycle. What I mean is I believe at the end of the survey there should be a question about: Given your current responses what are you going to do right now to boost or enhance your own engagement or the engagement of others?
Another thing I sometimes see is a long lag between a survey and results. I think in today's era we should be able to turn results around almost immediately. I would rather have many mini surveys with results back in 2 days than a huge long survey.
The other factor, and this is my pet peeve, is I hate anonymous surveys. We need to create safety through mutual purpose and mutual respect so that people can really own their comments and evaluations. Yes I know that may create concerns in certain areas yet we fully engage when we can say this is who I am and how I experiences things.
Okay, I'll jump off of my engagement soap box now! I feel strongly about some of these things.
David
- At 7:24am on February 11, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Maureen,
Thank you for the update. I hope in your survey data you make the surveys engaging. Too many people only assess and don't use it as a tool foster engagement.
David
- At 10:29pm on February 6, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Hi Maureen,
Welcome to the network. I trust you will find what you need from this network. Are you finding differences in engagement levels or approaches between US and Ireland? I wish you all the best on your own engagement and the engaged in your business unit.
David
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