The Walden 2.010 Project (Week 5)
What percentage contribution towards employee engagement
would you attribute to each of task, role, and organization?
Daily employee engagement. This is a weekly reporting of a one year project monitoring, measuring, and assessing daily employee engagement. You can see the original project plan, intention, measures and tools by clicking here.
Week 5. This was a week of highs and lows in engagement. Day 2 and Day 3 were the highest scores I have had all year in engagement and Day 4 and 5 were the lowest.
Assessment and Review. Teaching continues to a major contributor to my own engagement. Social media work on Days 4 and 5 were the lowest days in engagement. I can get quite engaged in the moment in social media work but the overall contribution to engagement is not as strong as my education work.
Conclusions and Recommendations. I am becoming more keenly aware of the cost of high levels of engagement. I may have a couple of very engaged days but then I seem to compensate with lower days. I will be interested to see if this trend continues during the year.
Employee Engagement Overall Take-away. At the risk of sounding like a Mini Marcus Buckingham I believe it is imperative that we help employees determine their strengths by defining strengths as what engages them. The nature and type of my work has had a huge influence on engagement this past week.
What impact does the type of your work have on your engagement?
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“…it is imperative that we help employees determine their strengths by defining strengths as what engages them.”
Could not agree more, David.
It is such a natural pathway to strengths and puts things into a more powerful circle or cycle. Any day I get a comment from you Dick is a good day.
Very interesting David. I do like this project, in particular its rawness. Your mini MB comment put me in mind of Austin Powers, which made me smile, another good thing. As for your definition of strengths, spot on.
Keep up the good work, and I look forward to popping by again soon.
Cheers – Doug
Doug,
I appreciate this comment and all the interactions we have had. I am glad you caught the mini-me and that was exactly what I was thinking except I am not as good looking as Buckingham nor do I have the cool British accent that Canadian eat up. The project it meant to be raw and real and once again you caught that so thank for that too. Take care and keep being your engaging self.
David