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Engage With the Latest Employee Engagement Evidence

April 29, 2016 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Engage for Success Does it Again!

I encourage you to read the latest employee engagement evidence report created by Engagement for Success. For example:

In the financial services sector, RBS has established links between employee engagement and business performance, customer service and employee well-being. The top 10% of business units compared to the bottom 10% by Engagement delivered twice the business performance, incurred half the voluntary turnover, had Customer Service scores 5% higher, and had absence rates 2% lower.

Click here or on the cover below to gather the evidence:

Engage for Sucess More Evidence Cover

David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert focused on the New Employee Engagement.

Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story?

August 6, 2013 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Why strategy needs to be a story

Shawn Callahan from Anecdote wrote a fine post on the potential for organizational leadership to be disengaged from strategy because they don’t really understand or feel the strategy. If this is true for leaders it is frightening to think about how disconnected or disengaged other employees may be from the strategy of the organization. McKinsey&Company estimated that 65% of employees may be unable to articulate the organization’s strategy and Shawn’s post makes me think this number might be low.

In the age of engage, we must stop having senior leadership retreat to craft strategy. Social media offers great mechanisms for engagement with strategy and Shawn let’s us know how important it is to transform dry strategy statements into living story. Here is a section from Shawn’s post:

The strategy gets developed as an analytical and rational process (and quite rightly so) and the end result is a document. The document gets passed around the executive team for comments. It’s duly read and commented on and at that point those running the strategy process believe everyone understands and is on board with the strategy. But something quite interesting happens when they have to tell the story of the strategy. Firstly, by telling the story of the strategy they feel what the strategy sounds like. And you can literally see executives squirm in their seat with aspects of the strategy as they say it.

The Engage for Success movement has demonstrated that strategic narrative is one of the four enablers of employee engagement. Let’s bring engagement to life with a compelling strategy story because if executive squirm in telling the story how can we expect them to live the story of the organization.

To read Shawn’s full post click on his title: How to get all your executive team on the same page with your strategy.

So, what’s your story and how would I see it lived in the work of all employees?

David Zinger is an expert global employee engagement speaker and consultant who uses the pyramid of employee engagement to help leaders, managers, and organizations increase engagement.

The Answer is Clear: The Employee Engagement Business Case

March 7, 2013 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Nailing the Evidence

Employee engagement the evidence from Engage for Success

I appreciate this slide presentation from Engage for Success on the evidence or business case for engagement. Watch it and let’s be done with this discussion about whether engagement does or does not make a difference for business.

The evidence is clear. Employee engagement make a significant difference.

David Zinger is working hard to ensure that individuals, managers, leaders, businesses, and organizations understand what they can do to realize the benefits of employee engagement by following the 10 practices outlined in his pyramid of employee engagement.

8 Developments That Stood Out in Employee Engagement in 2012

January 15, 2013 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

What stood out for you in Employee Engagement last year?

Here is what stood out for me last year in employee engagement:

The UK Engage for Success Movement. It was incredible to see the UK rally behind employee engagement with the Engage for Success Movement. This ranged from more work on the business case for engagement and a resource rich website to hundreds of events and actions around the UK. I encourage you to visit the Engage for Success website to learn what they did in 2012 and where they are going in 2013.

Social Media Growth in Employee Engagement. Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook have been buzzing with talk about employee engagement in 2012. I remember five years ago on Twitter when there might be one post on employee engagement every 5 hours and now it can be one every minute.

Employee Engagement Pairings. Many of the large consultancies have been pairing employee engagement with another key variable. For example:

Gallup = Employee Engagement + Wellbeing
Hay Group = Employee Engagement + Enablement
BlessingWhite = Employee Engagement + Energy

Growth the of Employee Engagement Network. The Employee Engagement Network continues to grow at about 20 to 30 members a week and has reached over 5500 members in just under 5 years.

More Books. There have been a lot of books written on employee engagement in 2012 and many books on leadership and management ensure they address employee engagement in their contents. Just a few of the recent books that have landed on my desk in 2012 were:

Susan Walker, Employee Engagement and Communication Research
David Bowles and Cary Cooper, The High Engagement Work Culture
Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow and Mary Ann Masarech, The Engagement Equation
Timothy Clark, The Employee Engagement Mindset

Postgraduate Certificate in Employee Engagement. Katie Truss from the University of Kent has lead the way in creating a university certificate in employee engagement.

Searching for Employee Engagement becomes a hit. About eight years ago there were about 200,000 results found when searching “employee engagement” in Google. At the end of 2012 there were: 8, 380,000.

Employee Engagement Humor. John Junson offers a weekly cartoon on employee engagement on the Employee Engagement Network and Dilbert made fun of engagement at least three times last year. We are growing in the ability to take our topic seriously and to take ourselves lightly.

This was a top of mind list of a few items that stood out for me about employee engagement. What stood out for you in employee engagement in 2012?

David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert already scheduled to work in New York, Mumbai, Delhi, Berlin, and Chicago in early 2013. Contact him today to offer education, speaking or consulting services to increase employee engagement where you work.

Get the Employee Engagement Picture: Engage for Success Go Live Event (#E4S)

November 27, 2012 by David Zinger Leave a Comment

Well done all involved in the Monday Engage For Success Event

It was a pleasure to attend the Engage for Success event in London yesterday and see how the UK is leading the way in employee engagement!

I look forward to my event on Wednesday on engagement, strengths, innovation, and excellence in conjunction with Strengths Partnership. If you are in London and available I encourage you to attend. To learn more, click here.