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June 17, 2016

The ROI of Improving Employee Engagement

Many leaders have spent countless hours hoping for business to return to pre-recession vitality levels. They’ve waited for something to rescue them from the seemingly endless challenges they’re facing on a daily basis, and wondered where the next big breakthrough is that will finally snap the economy out of the doldrums and set their organizations back onto the path of prosperity. But some leaders knew the breakthrough would come from someone, not something. These leaders tapped the resources of their employees and encouraged them to help navigate the challenges and economic uncertainty.
June 17, 2016

How To Get Leaders To Really Care About Employee Engagement

When a recent Gallup poll found that only 68.5 percent of workers consider themselves “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at work, it’s no surprise that we find ourselves in an employee engagement crisis. Despite this, it’s still challenging to get leaders and managers to focus on employee engagement. We know that it’s crucial to the long term success of organizations. We know it’s tied to building a high performance workplace. So why don’t leaders take it seriously?
January 29, 2016

Improving Worker Productivity and Work Ethic in a “Recession”

In the economic circumstances that we find ourselves, the knee-jerk response of most companies is to cut their largest expenditure; and, invariably, the largest expenditure is labour and its associated costs like recruitment, compensation and training. But it is precisely an organization’s people - its human capital – that can help it survive the dreaded “R” word.
January 29, 2016

How to Increase Employee Engagement Exponentially

Many organizations decide to do an employee engagement survey inspired by Pearson’s Law. Karl Pearson (1857–1936) was an influential English mathematician who is credited for coining the phrase “That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially." But can an employee survey alone increase employee engagement? Unfortunately, no, it can’t. An employee engagement survey isn’t magic, in that it won’t suddenly transform your company’s employees into super-engaged machines. To actually increase engagement, your company and its managers must plan and take actions to improve scores.