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Friday Factoid #30: India, Employee Engagement, and Wellbeing

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Wellbeing dipping in India

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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. 

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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.

Friday Factoid #29: Employee Engagement and Cost Reduction

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What does cost reduction cost us?

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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

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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.

Employee Engagement Friday Factoid #25: Knowledge Workers

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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)

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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.

 

Employee Engagement Friday Factoid #20: $2246 lost per Disengaged Employee

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Dollars being disengaged from our organizations

Drain of Disengagement

Each disengaged employee is estimated to cost an organization $2246. (source)

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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.

Employee Engagement Friday Factoid 16# : Going Mobile

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1.3 billion mobile workers by 2015

By 2015, 1.3 billion people worldwide will be working remotely. That’s almost 40% of the entire global workforce.  (Bring Nomadic Employees Back to the Mothership by Philip Tidd ).

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How do we engage with everyone on the go. Imagine our world in just two years when 40% of our entire global workforce is mobile!

David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert who uses the Pyramid of Employee Engagement to help organizations and individuals achieve full engagement.