Insights

Employee Engagement

"The one resource your competitors cannot duplicate – perhaps the only one – is the pool of managerial talent you create and cultivate. The return on investment on doing this can be dramatic and immediate." Executive Chairman Quote

How do you currently attract, develop, assess and retain good leaders and staff? Is this in perfect alignment with the vision, culture and values of the business?

Research shows that excellent talent management and discretionary employee engagement are crucial sources of competitive advantage – are you satisfied that you are doing a first class job of stimulating your staff into boosting their performance?

Talented managers want exciting challenges and great development opportunities. How good is your ‘Employee Value Proposition’?

Are you taking advantage of the current cooler economic period to attract and capture ‘top-notch talent’ that at other times would be harder to win?

Does your employee value proposition exist as little more than fancy words in a brochure or in a business plan? Or is it a really inspirational experience that people practice every day?

It is a remarkable fact that in over a dozen studies, worldwide, over many years there is a consistency in human nature in terms of the drivers for engagement:Trust and integrity, nature of the job itself, individual performance, career growth opportunity, pride in the company, camaraderie with colleagues, employee development and relationship with immediate line manager. Pay, significantly, rarely appears in the top ten drivers to discretionary effort!

When did you last measure your levels of employee engagement and, more importantly, are you satisfied that you have acted on the results?

Is line management, in your organisation, a series of mechanical tasks and measures or an interaction of human relationships? Are you satisfied that your line management delivers with integrity, behaves responsibly, communicates clearly, keeps its promises and learns from its mistakes?

The work environment is a crucial foundation to how employees feel about coming into work. This extends beyond the obvious bricks, mortar and furnishings and includes such items as ‘does the kettle work’, to ‘its not fair that as a non smoker I don’t get the ‘breaks’ through the day that smokers do’ to ‘my company will only pay the bare minimum for maternity and paternity leave’ to ‘I am worried that my employer doesn’t seem to take any interest in the environment or have any social responsibility in the community we serve’. Do you know what your employees think, feel and aspire to in the context of their working environment? Do you know if this is having an ongoing impact on performance, ability to generate value or health and wellbeing?

If you can say ‘YES’ to ‘all of the above’ – then very well done! I would love to meet you to see how you have delivered on this success!

If you are unsure about the answers and would like to explore these critical business success areas further; then please contact us at: info@evolveassociates.com or call 07808 330683 and quote EEweb