Why 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. 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 improve the culture’s productivity and...
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