Category: Engagement Statistics
By David Zinger on Jul 16, 2007 in David Zinger, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Monday Morning Percolator, Techniques | 1 Comment
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #22
Are you flying with a six pack of employee engagement?
In this case, I don’t mean half a dozen beers.
The six essential instruments in a light aircraft are often referred to as the six pack:
airspeed indicator
attitude indicator
altimeter
turn coordinator
heading indicator
vertical speed indicator
Do you monitor 6 strong “indications” of your employee engagement to [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 25, 2007 in Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Monday Morning Percolator, Personal Engagement, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #19
Have you thought about how the world and work is changing and what this means to employees, leaders and organizations who want to foster and maintain high levels of employee engagement?
I encourage you to view these 67 slides on change - shiftHappens:
[slideshare id=33834&doc=shift-happens-23665&w=425]
After viewing the slides what are you thoughts and ideas about [...]
By David Zinger on Jun 10, 2007 in Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Monday Morning Percolator, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #17
Today, I have the honor of featuring George Ambler and his leadership blog. George Ambler writes an insightful leadership blog - The Practice of Leadership: It’s only in the practice of leadership that we influence our world…
He has written a number of excellent short articles on employee engagement.
George summarized a study from PeopleMetrics:
…creating [...]
By David Zinger on May 20, 2007 in Disengagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Monday Morning Percolator, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
Employee Engagement: Monday Morning Percolator #14
The key concept from chapter four of Made to Stick is to make your ideas “edible” by you and the idea being credible. Employees will bite into employee engagement when they trust the message and the messenger. As a leader you need to establish and leverage trust in the name of employee [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 18, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Workplace Engagement | 0 Comments
According to Shepell-fgi research group: Money not only isn’t everything - it isn’t the main thing when it comes to motivating employees.
How people are treated and how they view their managers have almost twice the impact on motivation and results compared to pay and benefits. Money does not appear to enhance productivity.
Rob Phillips, CEO of Shepell-fgi stated:
We [...]
By David Zinger on Apr 9, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Monday Morning Percolator, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
If you are a leader here is an important multiple choice question. Your answer may indicate the role you play in your employees’ level of disengagement.
As a manager, my interactions with employees surrounding their performance is the following:
a. who has time to talk with employees about this kind of stuff?
b. we talk about how to [...]
By David Zinger on Mar 29, 2007 in Canada, Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
Nine and thirty-nine - from http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/
We often think people of different generations are bad drivers. Older drivers look at younger drivers in disdain while younger drivers think older drivers should get off the road.
Yet, when it comes to employee engagement Watson Wyatt just released data to suggest that different generations share the same engagement drivers [...]
By David Zinger on Mar 14, 2007 in Disengagement, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Techniques, Workplace Engagement | 8 Comments
Part 1: Lies, damn lies, and statistics
I’m angry, even a bit ticked off. If you read my blogs you know that I seldom if ever rant. But I am ticked off at all the measurement of employee engagement where employees tick off measurement boxes in private, an outside company collates all the measurement, and the organization [...]
By David Zinger on Mar 8, 2007 in Canada, Drivers of Engagement, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Management, Workplace Engagement | 2 Comments
The conference board published a report on “Employee Engagement: A Review of Current Research and its Implications.” Patricia Soldati summarized some of the work in a recent post at management-issues.
Looking at 12 different studies the report outlined 26 key drivers of engagement.
At least 4 of the studies agreed on these 8 drivers:
Trust and integrity
Nature of the [...]
By David Zinger on Jan 1, 2007 in Employee Engagement, Engagement Statistics, Leadership, Workplace Engagement | 1 Comment
A report last year identified seven indicators of employee engagement.
The independent study, conducted by WarrenShepell and Canadian HR Reporter, surveyed more than 300 organizational leaders across Canada. There were strong links between the presence of seven top job and workplace factors and positive employee mental health, a lower rate of turnover, and satisfaction.
The following list shows the [...]
