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Our Next E-Book: Write One Sentence of Employee Engagement Advice for Managers or Supervisors
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.
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A case against EE?
I agree with the second statement. What an Employer does to value and bring value their employees and potential recruits is and will be more and more the only way to ensure they can attract the valua…
Tagged: organisations, value added, motivation, EE
Replied Oct 22
Forum #6: Employee Engagement Advice in One Sentence
Employee engagement is the link between individual productivity, passion and purpose and organisational progression and is the most powerful source of success and sustainability that you already have…
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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.
Great Blog - agree throughout especially the reinforcement that Employee Engagement holds the key.
Susanne
www.aspiretalentmanagement.com
Change is inevitable and necessary for survival and progression. It happens and we can’t avoid it, but if we embrace it and look for the opportunities that also come with change, we can take advantage of all thats within. It is no different at work…
How shifting the mindset of employees within support functions from reactive and admin driven to proactive and client facing will deliver significant value and returns on investment to your organisation.
Its all in the name
Back office, Support,…
I agree with the second statement. What an Employer does to value and bring value their employees and potential recruits is and will be more and more the only way to ensure they can attract the valuable skills on sale by individuals. The key is to e…
Flexible working has of course been an established term for some time with many organisations having policies setting out differing working patterns acceptable to the company and the rules on their use. Whilst it is important to ensure commonality…
Employee engagement is the link between individual productivity, passion and purpose and organisational progression and is the most powerful source of success and sustainability that you already have.
Consider an organisation as a system with interrelated parts (Figure above). Every action within these parts has a reaction. A Leader who can see the whole system would therefore be required in order to constantly shift priorities to optimise the o…
what is new today it will be old tomorow by virtu of innovation.Its short of continual change with respect needs and requirement.
it can be explioted in negative direction or can be utilised in possitive development.
its develop with fission/fusion…
What is Innovation when considered specifically within an organisational context? There are different views but words such as creativity, ideas, new and unique, are often used in the same sentence when innovation is the subject. We will first atte…
Profile Information
- Who are you?
- Susanne started her career working within a small accountancy practice learning the tools of the trade before moving to KPMG. In her position Susanne had responsibility for the UK Infrastructure operations team and strategy and was UK Head of People for Infrastructure.
Susanne led major firm wide, national and international highly successful change programs, implementing leading edge solutions that saved hundreds of thousands of pounds. Her work directly supported KPMG to achieve a number of awards in recognition of their investment in people, including attaining the Sunday Times best big company to work for, for four consecutive years.
Susanne set up her own company Aspire specialising in People and Operational excellence alongside Communication and Change Management strategy. Her work supports organisations to shape and enhance their people and business strategy, bringing in positive and successful change with a key focus on achieving and delivering significant ROI. Susanne also works closely with the CIPD advising and leading her branch on their communication planning and delivery.
Key skills and experience at a glance:
• Change Management
• Communication Strategy
• Executive Coach
• Organisational Design, Development and Effectiveness
• People & HR Strategy
• Project Management
• Diversity strategy
• Talent Management
• Leadership development
• Employer branding
• Employee engagement
• Infrastructure Operations
• Finance
• Business strategy
Professional Qualifications
• CIPD
• Post graduate certificate in Frontline Leadership and Management Principles – Edinburgh University
• MBA with distinction – University of Edinburgh and ENPC Paris
• Post graduate certificate in International Business – University of Edinburgh
• Advanced Coaching
• Diploma in advanced Credit Management (highest ever achieved mark)
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Employee engagement is the key to sustainable organisational success. Humanising the business, building engagement will deliver significant returns for the Employer, Employee and within the wider society.
- Where are you located?
- London, England
Susanne Jacobs's Blog
Secrets of Sustainable Change
Change is inevitable and necessary for survival and progression. It happens and we can’t avoid it, but if we embrace it and look for the opportunities that also come with change, we can take advantage of all thats within. It is no different at work but change often fails simply because people are not put… Continue
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 10:30am —
Back to Front
How shifting the mindset of employees within support functions from reactive and admin driven to proactive and client facing will deliver significant value and returns on investment to your organisation.
Its all in the name
Back office, Support, Internal Ops are all common titles given to an… Continue
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 2:30pm —
The Balance Tension
Flexible working has of course been an established term for some time with many organisations having policies setting out differing working patterns acceptable to the company and the rules on their use. Whilst it is important to ensure commonality of understanding on what is available in terms of fle… Continue
Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:30pm —
Lead From the MIddle
Consider an organisation as a system with interrelated parts (Figure above). Every action within these parts has a reaction. A Leader who can see the whole system would therefore be required in order to constantly shift priorities t… Continue
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 1:30pm —
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 4:54am on October 13, 2009,
Jose Manuel Zardain Garcia Vigil said…
- Thank you Susanne for your friendship, if you need something from me or from Mexico please don´t hesitate to contact me, have a great day. Jose Manuel
http://realestatemexicojmzgv.blogspot.com/
- At 5:33am on October 4, 2009,
- Thank you Susanne for your friendship, if you need something from me or from Mexico please don´t hesitate to contact me, have a great day. Jose Manuel
http://realestatemexicojmzgv.blogspot.com/
- At 10:51am on September 27, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Susan:
Welcome to the employee engagement network. Hope you found ROWE helpful. You will find great people and great information here and I hope you will contribute and jump into the conversation. Let me know if I can be of assistance.
David
- At 8:03pm on September 23, 2009,
David Zinger said…
- Susanne:
This sounds like the work of ROWE - Results Only Work Environment. I assume you are already well aware of them but just in case they weren't on your radar that is their focus and approach.
David
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Dear Ray,
Your concern is well founded. Employees look forward to surveys like they do a visit to the dentist! The Horsepower Survey, however, is an employee-focused survey to measure how rewarded employees feel about their work. It consists of sev…
Mike,
I will make mention of this new group in the next newsletter. Thank you for starting this and I wish you well and all European members the best with this focus.
David
Jason:
Good points about trust and aligning the strategic engagement with employee engagement. We need results for all.
I am concerned you will lose readers due to lack of formatting on this post. I encourage you to ensure that you format your pos…
Thanks for sharing this information, Roy.
When I was Research Director at The Loyalty Institute, we found that the #1 driver of employee commitment was an organization's efforts to build a sense of spirit and pride. This was true in the US as well…
As a survey consultant I guess that I should like the idea of conducting monthly surveys, but I am concerned that employees may feel that they are being "over surveyed."
There are options, of course. An organization might randomly assign each emplo…
This is a great read, a great story. I smiled the whole time as I read this. If this conversation is possible in your organization, then I'd say your leadership is trusted and transparent. Thanks for this story.
I won't be wishing you "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" this December. These secular, generic salutations are popular in corporate America because they are not specific to any one religion or belief system. The business world, like America's…
Hello Paul:
"if you want to improve productivity and reduce costs, you need to
tap into human nature’s pleasure-fueled engine."
I could not agree more but if we wait until after we hire someone we have waited too long.
Bob
A Manager shall know one's team member more than his/her mother knows him/her.
Offered by Shweta Mohanty Posted by David Zinger
"If managers cannot commit, then they shouldn’t expect their employees to commit either."
Well said and very true. I much enjoyed your article and share your views.
Bob Carpenter's experiences in turnarounds are the same as mine although I only di…
listen actively, be honest, and prepare yourselves both for great results
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