This week in employee engagement..
A compilation of thought-leadership, news, and personal experiences in the field of employee engagement.
- Here’s a an important lesson for companies trying to get their engagement right, especially for the frontline employees: It works wonders when CEO takes the lead and facilitates engagement.
Alan Joyce, head of Qantas Airways, does it beautifully by recalling what happened at a company town hall recently.
2. Powerful words on employee engagement in this interview.
→In the face of tumultuous change to the way we work, it’s never been more important to understand why we work.’
→ ‘An app is not going to bring your workforce together’
3. In this piece, HBR talks about the landmines to avoid when framing your employee engagement surveys.
For example: “We” questions can be more effective than “I” questions.
A very handy guide indeed:
4. Favourite lines on employee engagement from this Forbes writeup by Ian Altman:
“Rather than telling employees, ‘Hey, our goal is to reach 200 million dollars in sales’, give them work that matters.”
Because the truth is, unless employees have a direct stake in the $200 million, they are not going to be motivated by that goal, at least not as much as managers hope.”
If you’ve found this curation useful, do let me know? ( A clap, an email or a comment would suffice). I’ll then make this a weekly affair, so we’re all caught up with the employee engagement landscape and its evolution.
Also, if you’re wondering, I’m Krithika, the content head at Noticeboard. As a platform, we facilitate training and engagement of large-distributed workforces across all industries. Write to me (krithika@noticeboard.tech) if you’re looking for something similar!
