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October 23, 2015

5 Things Managers Do That Just Kill Employee Engagement

Over 2 million people quit their job each month, and the No. 1 reason is the quality of the relationship they have with their direct supervisor. It stands to reason, as managers are more likely to have daily interactions with employees, and they are usually the benchmark employees use to judge a company’s culture. However, only 32 percent of employees are truly engaged in their work, and we suspect it has something to do with these five (5) manager behaviors that kill engagement:
October 12, 2015

3 Reasons to do an Employee Engagement Survey

There’s a lot of talk about engagement surveys and many organizations do them, but you may be asking yourself: “Why should I do a survey?” While it is true that a well-executed survey does take some planning and action to be successful, the benefits are numerous.
October 12, 2015

Both The Past AND Future Expectations Can Dramatically Impact Engagement Levels

Employee engagement continues to drive very positive business outcomes and is a vital concern for leaders around the world, but efforts to improve engagement frequently under perform. Research from the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), titled Capitalizing on Engagement, indicates the lack of consistent results may be the product of not knowing which solutions best sustain engagement over time, and acknowledges employees’ present experiences don’t provide an accurate assessment. Most organizations measure engagement by employees’ present perceptions and develop action plans focused on that narrow set of issues, but CEB measured employee perceptions across multiple time horizons to better link engagement action plans to underlying root causes of disengagement.
October 1, 2015

The Key To Engaged Employees? It’s Mainly About Better Communication

Harvard Business Review recently sponsored an Interact/Harris Poll of around 1,000 U.S. employees that asked them to rank their top complaints about leadership in their organizations. The results revealed a stunning lack of emotional intelligence among senior leaders and management, and show the importance of fundamental communication skills when it comes to engaging employees. The top employee complaints were ranked as follows: