Hi Ian, I was part of the 'culture' team where I worked, and we developed an employee engagement strategy as part of our work on culture. Did a lot of work on leadership development, and even administered a 'culture' survey last year. Now we're starting to look at EE more in terms of communications than we did before, and also from a well-being perspective.
Welcome on board Tara. Have done some work with the equivalent depts in the UK. Have you done any culture development work to supplement the comms and engagement activity yet?
Tara:
From Winnipeg to Ottawa - Welcome to the employee engagement network. I would love to hear about what you have already done to increase employee engagement levels. I encourage you, if you are comfortable, to add a picture to your page. I don't know if you read my site but I welcome you to read my article: 21 Ways Leaders Can Energize Themselves for Work.
David
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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:
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What type of work has your dept. done?
Ian
From Winnipeg to Ottawa - Welcome to the employee engagement network. I would love to hear about what you have already done to increase employee engagement levels. I encourage you, if you are comfortable, to add a picture to your page. I don't know if you read my site but I welcome you to read my article: 21 Ways Leaders Can Energize Themselves for Work.
David