How 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 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...
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