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I was delighted to have worked with Julie and a fellow authors, Joanne Gordon and Don Lowman, on this book on behalf of EMC. In fact, the interviews they conducted with our employees set in motion a more comprehensive and engaged body of employmen...
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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- Who are you?
- VP of Employment Brand and Strategy Engagement at EMC Corp.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I run employee engagement for a 15 billion; 40K employee company in 60 + countries
- Website:
- http://www.pollypearson.com
- Where are you located?
- Massachusetts
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- At 8:13am on April 16, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Polly,
Welcome to the employee engagement network. I did not know you were here. What I mean by this is that I follow what you write on Twitter all the time but as you did not post an image here I did not make a connection. I love the connection of career, culture, and cool on your site.
I hope you will get more involved in the network as I appreciate what you are able to say in just 140 characters or less. I think you have so much to possible contribute to a network like this.
Let me know if I can be of assistance. If you decide to add an image at some time let me know as I will be sure to feature you.
David
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Understand every member of your teams motivation, align their aspirations to a clearly communicated business direction, give them all the tools to do the job and then empower them to deliver.
Care for people around you and get to know who they are, what strengths they bring and what's important to them.
Every day do a quick maintenance check. Do people know Why?, How?, When? and What? they are doing and are they free to ask these questions of you?.
Check your own engagement regularly. You need support, recognition and inspiration as much as your employees, in order provide an environment that will engage your people fully.
Engagement is a relationship that requires regular maintenance.
Start from where they are at.
Reach out to their hearts and values. Look beyond the Employee ID number and make a genuine effort to see and hear the person.
Open yourself to influence by others and they will open themselves to your influence.
Don't just listen to your people but also act on what they're telling you.
Only hire people with passion for what they do; create a work environment that fosters and facilitates the expression of that passion and use a communication style that makes it safe to stretch, fail and grow.
Assist each employee to understand the deeper purpose of his or her work - who or what cause is it helping - and why.
Be congruent and transparent, say what you mean and do what you say.
Managers or Supervisors can engage employees by demonstrating little acts of kindness for absolutely no reason at all. eg. Can I help you carry that? Is there anything I can get for you? etc. etc.
Engagement should be treated as newborns! Everyone takes place in the growing process and they should never be left unattended.
For great managers, the path toward engaging employees and keeping them engaged begins with asking them what they want and what is important in order to be effective in their roles.
Involve employees in decisions that will affect them - they may have some great ideas that you haven't thought of and will be more supportive of the final outcome.
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