Turning Engagement Upside Down – Part 2
Turning Engagement Upside Down (Human Capital Magazine Interview – Part 2) With employers failing to get cut-through with traditional notions of what engages employees, Human Capital Magazine’s Chief Editor, Iain Hopkins, recently interviewed ‘Employee Activated Engagement’ expert Ian Hutchinson, Chief Engagement Officer of LifebyDesign.com.au, who says it’s time for a fresh take on engagement. In Part 1 of this interview Ian Hutchinson answered questions from Human Capital...
Read MoreThe Problem with Existing Models of Employee Engagement (Turning Engagement Upside Down Part 1)
Turning Engagement Upside Down (Human Capital Magazine Interview – Part 1) With employers failing to get cut-through with traditional notions of what engages employees, Human Capital Magazines Chief Editor, Iain Hopkins, recently interviewed ‘Employee Activated Engagement’ expert Ian Hutchinson, Chief Engagement Officer of LifebyDesign.com.au, who says it’s time for a fresh take on engagement. Human Capital: In your view what is the problem with existing models of engagement? Ian...
Read MoreWhy Is Traditional Employee Engagement Research Flawed?
Your Employee Engagement Research Company Probably Won’t Tell You This… Employee engagement research can be a waste of time and money if you don’t understand the pitfalls. So what’s wrong with traditional employee engagement research? Problematic Assumption #1 Taking the general common denominator approach to engagement results will improve research scores Flaw #1 Only focussing on umbrella engagement solutions or Organisational Engagement Plans (OEP) can help some...
Read MoreHow to Make Performance Reviews Your Motivational Ally, Not a Demotivating Time Waster
Question: How do we make performance reviews really improve performance? I don’t know anyone who likes performance reviews – they have become an annual pain in the backside for most employees and managers. When performance reviews are not done well they can become a waste of time for everyone. Road Map Traditional performance reviews are very employer-centric. They focus on cascading organisational goals down to an employee’s role in achieving specific requirements for the...
Read MoreThe Power of Knowing What Really Engages Individuals
So What Uniquely Motivates & Engages An Employee? Well, it depends on the individual … Enter Personal Engagement Plans (PEP). If employers don’t know what engages and motivates their people, then they can’t effectively engage them. As everyone is different, we need to take the “workforce of one” philosophy and treat employees as individuals, not as a team or as an organisation. PEP’s are by far the most effective way to engage and motivate people...
Read MoreThe HR Insanity Test
The HR Insanity Test Sick of doing engagement research, then trying to implement engagement and retention strategies? Frustrated you’re not getting the productivity and performance impact you had hoped for that would make you an HR Hero? We have all heard it before – insanity is doing the same things time and time again, but hoping for different results. Perhaps it’s time to re-think employee engagement and have a paradigm shift. Perhaps we need to stop doing the ineffective old and...
Read MoreHas Engagement Research Made It Too Hard – and Paralyzed Effective Action?
There’s Good & Bad News The Bad News – Everyone is different, which makes engagement seem complex The Good News – There are only 7 motivational engagement drivers to understand The Bad News – Most employees don’t know what they want. Therefore by default money becomes their main motivator The Good news – Once employees get clarity, 70% of engagement & motivation can be controlled and improved by the individual employee themselves The 7 Drivers of...
Read MoreHave You Had These 3 Epiphanies of Employee Engagement Yet?
A true leader should be the catalyst to increasing their peoples’ productivity and performance. Therefore engagement and motivation is key. Our Employee Assistance Programs can assist with this. So many organisations traditionally conduct employee engagement research to get an overall benchmark of how engaged their workforce is. Based on the findings of the research they’ll probably put in place general engagement strategies (called Organisational Engagement Plans or OEP) to try to...
Read MoreA Brief History of Employee Engagement… so far!
OK, We Know That: Employee engagement (EE) increases performance (P), productivity (P) and profitability ($) in organisations. EE=P+P+$ Engagement utopia would be having 100% of our employees, 100% motivated and engaged 100% of the time. Sure, unrealistic but the ideal goal! Generally speaking, there is a 20:60:20 engagement distribution across the average organisation. For example: 20% of employees are ‘toxic’ or actively disengaged. In fact many organisations would...
Read MoreWhat Most HR Directors Overlook – Even the Engagement Pros
If employee engagement isn’t really improving for us and our organisation, when will it? Are we still trying to solve engagement by doing more of the wrong things? From our recent ‘Obstacles to Engagement’ Research Study we identified six key challenges to effective employee engagement. You may recognise some of them: 1. Ineffective Solutions “The engagement initiatives we have put in place aren’t getting the results we had hoped for. In fact the more we give our employees...
Read MoreWho Says HR is Responsible for Engagement?
Who does your culture believe is responsible for employee engagement? A. CEO/Senior Management Team* B. Human resources C. People leaders & managers* D. Employees E. Everyone Hopefully you answered E) Everyone …Yes ‘E’ is for everyone… but… Caution: There is some danger in having everyone responsible for engagement in that if everyone is responsible, nobody is really accountable. The key is everyone needs to be responsible for employee engagement; it’s just that different people...
Read MoreOne Size Fits All Strategies – Don’t Work, Never Did
Sorry, but for some time now I’ve, excuse the French, had the shits … …with the level of thinking around employee engagement research. Recently I’ve been frustrated with some comments regarding staff retention on LinkedIn groups and Google Alerts. Generally I’m concerned with the level of employee engagement thought leadership being bandied around the corporate world. I reckon if I read the question: “What engages employees?” one more time …. I think...
Read MoreEngage-onomics: Want to Make HR a Profit Centre?
Frustrated Trying to Prove Engagement? OK, frustrated proving that engagement has a positive impact to your organisation’s bottom line? A Strategic Human Resource Management approach will help. Here’s one to chat about with your bean counters – Engage-onomics: The economics of engagement 101 HR Can Be a Profit Centre HR is typically seen as a cost centre. “Employee engagement initiatives are a nice to do and can sap up valuable budget” you might sense commonly...
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Employee Activated Engagement through Talent Liberation Join Ian Hutchinson, Employee Activated Engagement expert and author of ‘People Glue: Engagement & Retention Solutions That Stick!’ for this recent 48 mins webinar. To register for forthcoming LIVE webinars click here. Please leave your comments below and let’s keep the conversation going. Also to join future LIVE webinars click...
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