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Money Matters
Annual net income for the top 25% organizations on engagement is about 2 times more than for the bottom 25% organizations on engagement. (Kenexa)
Employee engagement make an income difference so lets stop with the engagement talk and get busy engaging.
David Zinger is a Canadian Employee Engagement Speaker and global expert on engagement dedicated to turning the noun of engagement into the verb of engage.
On the lookout
A study of over 1,700 employees conducted in 2012 by the American Psychological Association (APA) indicated that more than half of all employees intended to search for new jobs because they felt under appreciated and undervalued. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/phwa/workplace-survey.pdf
Commentary
Perhaps the quickest way to get rid of someone is not to fire them but to not value or appreciate them. The problem is, we may not want to get rid of someone but they get rid of us.
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers with engagement.
The 15% Gap
Most organizations need a 20% performance improvement to meet goals across the next year. But conventional performance management can only improve productivity by up to 5%. The key to achieving breakthrough performance is to focus on building employees’ enterprise contribution – the sum of individual task performance and network performance. (Source)
Commentary
We need to engage all employees better in performance management while also striving to make employee engagement more engaging. Does your performance management system connect, excite, energize, and engage? Does it improve both people and performance?
David Zinger is a global employee engagement speaker and expert who teachers the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers and organizations increase engagement, performance, and results.
Yeah employee engagement is important but…
The majority (79%) of respondents rate employee engagement as a high priority, but only 41% have an employee engagement strategy in place, according to research by YouForce. (Source)
Commentary
There is a gap between belief and action on employee engagement. It is rated as a priority but only half of those who rate employee engagement as a priority have a strategy. Now that’s a true lack of engagement with engagement!
David Zinger is a global employee engagement speaker and expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers and organizations increase engagement.
Employee engagement: The strength of one and the power of many
80% of employees dissatisfied with their direct managers were disengaged. http://www.dalecarnegie.com/employee-engagement/engaged-employees-infographic/
Commentary
Managers have a significant influence on engagement. When we improve the engagement of managers not only do we benefit by having more engaged managers we also improve the engagement of their direct reports. Don’t just manage employee engagement, ensure your managers are fully engaged.
David Zinger is a global employee engagement speaker and expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers and organizations increase engagement.
Wellbeing dipping in India
Just 10% of India’s workforce are thriving. From Is India Having a Crisis of Soul? by Deepak Chopra and Jim Clifton in the Huffington Post.
Commentary
One of my biggest lessons from visiting India earlier this year was that there is no one India, there are many “Indias”. As India moves towards 2020, I trust there will be a greater experience of thriving in the workplace when engagement is done powerfully, authentically, and for the benefit of all.
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers and organizations increase engagement.
What does cost reduction cost us?
47% of companies surveyed in a cost reduction and engagement survey by AON Hewitt reported a decline in employee trust as a result of the way in which they managed cost reductions. From page 19 of The Flat Army by Dan Pontefract
Commentary
Trust is a huge issue in employee engagement and we must watch all we do for the impact on trust. Cost reduction can cost us trust. How do you achieve cost reduction will maintaining or perhaps even improving trust within your organization?
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help managers and organizations increase engagement.
Is your knowledge working?
Knowledge workers have driven more than 70% of the economic growth in the United States over the past three decades. (Oracle Business Impact of Talent Intelligence)
Commentary
We work in the age of knowledge workers. Are you tapping into your workers’ knowledge to assess, improve, and enhance engagement? I encourage you to use your knowledge workers to drive the growth of your employee engagement efforts. To get a knowledgeable start: ask, don’t tell.
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who in 2013 has already done engagement work in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Berlin, Prague and New York. Contact him today for education, speeches, consulting or coaching on engagement.
Dollars being disengaged from our organizations
Each disengaged employee is estimated to cost an organization $2246. (source)
Commentary
Employee engagement is more than simple economics and there are many important issues including the bottom line but we can’t let disengaged employees be a drain of the organizational resources.
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the Pyramid of Employee Engagement to help organizations and individuals achieve full engagement. The top of the pyramid is focused on achieving results and this embraces the important economic results an organization much achieve for viability or profitability.
David Zinger, M.Ed.
Employee Engagement means good work, done well, with others, on a daily basis.
Small. The success of employee engagement is based on small, simple, strong, significant, and sustainable evidence based actions.
Gumption. Engagement is built with the grit, gumption, and caring of good work done well, with others, every day.
Pyramid. The Zinger 10 Block Pyramid of Employee Engagement will guide you in overcoming the stumbling blocks and enlivening the building blocks of full engagement.
Strength and Power. Learn how to fuse the strength of one with the power of many to increase engagement. David Zinger built the Employee Engagement Network one member at a time into a force of 6100 global members focused on engagement.
The world. Mr. Zinger is one of the world's leading independent employee engagement experts. Referred to as a Guru by the UK's Engage for Success movement, David has taught engagement in New York, Mumbai, Berlin, London, Delhi, Prague, Barcelona, Wales, South Africa, Chicago and Warsaw.
Engage today by emailing David Zinger at: david@davidzinger.com
