This week in employee engagement..

Thanks to the holiday season, a lot of people wrote about health and hugs in the context of employee engagement. So, reading material took on a lot more colour and gave us some new perspectives. Sharing a few interesting ones here:

1. Gallup, the global performance-management consulting company, gives us sage advice: Before you focus on employee engagement, focus on your employee’s health.

The No. 1 Employee Benefit That No One's Talking About

2. A brand agency’s advice to companies on branding: Use your frontline first. How? Create an internal brand experience that’s reflective of the company’s external brand. We also love this because it was a topic we explored recently.

Jennifer Risi, worldwide Chief Communications Officer at Ogilvy, puts it brilliantly:

Effectively Deploying Employees as Your Brand's Frontline

3. Hugs, Oxytocin and employee engagement. I’ll leave you to read the rest.

The Neuroscience of Corporate Goodness and Employee Engagement