Engaging Regardless of Differences
Focus On Individual Differences How do we engage employees when there are cultural and generational differences? Everyone is an individual, so the key is to focus on the real people behind these stereotypes. People Leaders are the key to helping unlock your workforce potential by focusing on what really counts……to each person. Here’s Ian Hutchinson on the subject: To maximise your talented people, your People Leaders need to understand their own drivers and those of their...
Read MoreWhen Reward Doesn’t Matter
Money Isn’t the Main Issue Surely money is important? Isn’t that what drives everyone? Time and time again we see many ill-informed organisations focussing on financial reward as the primary engagement motivator (through incentives such as bonuses). The fact is, once employees feel they are paid fairly for the work they do it comes down to the other six key engagement drivers. If money is not the primary motivational driver for your employees, then what should you focus on?...
Read MoreHow Engagement Helps When Companies Restructure?
We know that change is part of our lives, whether that be in our personal life or in the corporate world. With the global economy as it is, it is a fact that there are often restructures, mergers and other big changes happening within your organisation. When this is happening, how important is engagement and when should we be helping our people most? When To Engage In Changing Times? We often get asked by our clients: “Do we try and engage and help them before change or once the change...
Read MoreHow to Simplify Engagement
Anyone who has done employee engagement reserach for their organisation knows it can get complicated. Is this level of research necessary? Throughout our research working with hundreds of organisations and tens of thousands of employees, Life by Design knows that not everyone is motivated by the same engagement drivers. The 7 Simple Drivers The good news is that there are fundamentally only seven key motivational engagement drivers. That’s why it is possible to simplify the engagement...
Read MoreHow Do You Engage a Remote Workforce?
Relationships and Communication Are the Central Nervous System to any Organisation How do we engage a workforce that’s geographically spread around the country or for that matter the globe? Sure the key in any team is communication and making the most of maintaining relationships through interventions such as conferences and leveraging technology such as video conferencing. But in the end the key is still understanding and maximising individuals motivational drivers! So make sure...
Read MoreThe 6 Sleeping Giants Stunting Productivity & Performance
What are the 6 barriers to fully engaging your workforce? From our benchmarking research of human resource directors over the last few years at LifebyDesign.com.au we have found that there are six key obstacles stopping organisations fully realising their workforce potential when it comes to employee engagement: 1. Employee Clarity (78%) 2. Time Poor (70%) 3. Skills, Tools & Resources (66%) 4. Inaction (62%) 5. Leader Buy-in & Commitment (57%) 6. Ineffective Solutions (40%) Employee...
Read MoreEngagement Success: The Key Is Making It Simple
For employee engagement to be effectively implemented a simple system is needed to make the application easy for all levels of the organisation. People leaders increasingly are being asked to do more with less, with demands from their own projects as well as requirements to better motivate and engage their people to maximise productivity. Keep It Simple! Life by Design recognise this and have based their engagement process on getting clarity on 7 key motivational drivers –...
Read MoreTop 10 Staff Retention Quotes
It’s a fact that virtually every organisation and individual within those organisations, is being asked to ‘do more with less’. Therefore the key question right now should be, ‘How do we maximise productivity and performance, simply and easily? One of the most effective ways to fast-track productivity and performance intelligently is by maximising employee engagement and motivation. The problem is that many organisations are getting frustrated because engagement solutions they’re...
Read MoreWhat Do We Do With Disengaged Staff?
It’s a reality that some staff may be disengaged and this can cause a major workforce productivity and performance issue. So how do you re-engage the disengaged? How much energy do you put into re-engaging them? What are the effects of them being disengaged? What do you do if ultimately you can’t engage them? In this short video, Ian Hutchinson discusses these issues: For more solutions on how to motivate and engage your workforce go to further resources,...
Read MoreKeeping Engagement Simple!
First, Do The Small Things Well So what’s the simplest thing that can make the biggest difference for your team members around engaging them for better performance? In 95 seconds Ian Hutchinson shares some of simpliest ideas and most effective engagement tools leaders can use on a daily basis to effectively engage and motivate their people. Keep It Simple The concepts are simple but powerful – so you might like to watch it a few times and really listen to what Ian is saying...
Read MoreGetting Employees to Own Their Engagement
Inspired Leaders Inspire Others Previously we have discussed how a leader can be a catalyst to helping employees become better engaged in leading by example, and first getting clarity on what motivates them as leaders. A leader who has clarity around what motivates them can drive their own personal engagement and is also more open to help others do the same. So how, as leaders, do we do this? Clarity Creates Control = 70-80% Improvement in Engagement The Employee Activated Engagement...
Read MoreSelf-Leadership Starts With Leaders!
Want to be a Catalyst for Self-Responsibility? We have talked regularly about creating a self-responsible culture within organisations. We know that leaders are the catalyst to helping increase the productivity and performance of their teams. So doesn’t it make sense that Self-Leadership starts with leaders, leading by example? If leaders can experience the benefits of Employee-Activated Engagement for themselves, then they will be able to see how well it will work for their people....
Read MoreLeaders Not Buying Into Engagement?
Frustrated by Leadership? Sometimes leaders don’t buy into engagement. They are too busy, don’t believe in it or are just ill-informed about how engagement adds to the bottom line via increased productivity and performance. Lack of buy in from the top, especically if it’s the CEO, can be challenging. So what do you do?
Read MoreCreating Resilience & Control in Ever-Changing Times
Constant Change, Here To Stay Changing environments, economic climates, restructures and mergers have certainly become the norm and most leaders generally accept that change is here to stay. But how do you as a leader best cope with this constant change, especially when it affects your people? The Leadership Challenge Do you feel that this has created a leadership challenge in your organisation or team especially around keeping your people motivated and engaged through this change? Most would...
Read MoreRetained Is Not Always Engaged!
Some companies see that employees are retained and assume that their people are engaged, but there can be a world of difference! Engaged > Retained To effectively enhance performance and productivity we need engaged team members! People who will go the extra mile and come to the job with enthusiasm and a positive attitude to contributing to the department’s objectives. This video highlights the difference between engaged and...
Read MoreSimple Tools to Fast-Track Engagement Easily
An Individual Approach… We talk about engagement being very individual – everyone is motivated and engaged by a different order of drivers. But just because it is individualised doesn’t mean it has to be complicated. …Doesn’t Mean Complicated We get asked a lot about the simple tools and systems that we have developed to make engagement simple. So in this post we share a high level overview of some of the most effective tools used over recent times by organisations...
Read MoreTurning Engagement Upside Down – A Fresh Approach
Are you really getting the engagement cut-through that you had hoped for? Sick of using the same old engagement and retention strategies to boost much needed productivity, but just not getting the results you wanted? Perhaps it’s time for a fresh look at engagement….let’s turn it on it’s head and see it from the employees point of view! Click here to read more on this topic in Ian’s interview with HC...
Read MoreHow Do We Engage Employees Through Constant Change
The pace of change these days is mind boggling and as the world moves towards more globalisation, we see the stress of constant change all around us. So how do you engage and motivate your people in times of economic downturn and constant change? Our latest video is about resilience…..a quality we all need so we can sustain ourselves into our future world. For more on the self-responsibility (or Employee-Activated) approach read more...
Read MoreAre You Creating a Culture of Spoilt Brats?
Gifts and benefits have been in many situations the old school default solution for retaining employees, but have they really engaged employees? Or have they just created a ‘whinge entitlement culture’ that now desperately needs reversing so that organisations can effectively maximise their biggest asset and create a self-responsible workforce? HR leaders have become increasingly aware that getting employees clear on what engages and motivates them is the first most important...
Read MoreDo People Care About Engagement?
Engagement verses Motivation The term ‘Engagement’ is very employer-centric. “How can we engage you more?” can give the impression that an organisation is only thinking about their profitability more than the well-being of the employee. ‘Motivation’ or ‘Talent Driver’ is fundamentally the same thing as engagement and much more employee-centric. So consider using ‘Motivation’ or ‘Motivators’ rather than the word...
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