Engage 5 with Ian Buckingham

Engage 5 is a new weekly feature of Employee Engagement Zingers. Engage-5 asks leading thinkers, writers, consultants, and others involved in employee engagement to complete 5 sentences. Each person was asked to limit their sentence completion to just one sentence for each of the 5 leads.

Here are the Engage-5 primers:

1. I define engagement as…
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is…
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to…
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I…
5. To learn more about engagement I encourage people to…

Read Ian Buckingham’s responses to the 5 employee engagement primers:

1. I define employee engagement as deep understanding and active and passionate pursuit of the goals of the business as an act of free will.
2. A big challenge in employee engagement is ensuring that key decision makers understand its relationship to performance and budget accordingly.
3. A powerful way to create greater engagement is to involve people at all levels in business critical initiatives.
4. I am personally most engaged at work when I am working in conditions in which I can be myself.
5. To learn more about engagement, I encourage people to have a go themselves.

Ian Buckingham is the author of Brand Engagement – How Employees Make or Break Brands. You can learn more about Ian and his work by visiting: www.by2w.co.uk. Ian is also an active member of the Employee Engagement Network.