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Four Steps to Compare Your Business Results to Employee Engagement -
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MAY 31, 2016
Organizations struggle to quantify the impact engaged employees have on business results. Intuitively, it’s a no-brainer– engaged employees cost less and produce more. It’s that simple. Many studies and reports support that hunch: engaged companies have stronger levels of profitability, and retain their employees. Download Employee Engagement Survey Sample. No comparisons can be shared.
Can You Trust Your Employee Survey Results?
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FEBRUARY 16, 2016
What if I told you that 26 percent of your employees either blatantly lie or inadvertently misidentify demographic questions on employee surveys ? If you’re like most managers we work with, you’ll immediately distrust the survey process and its reported data—and that’s completely fair. The fact is, when employees are asked demographic questions (e.g., How do we know? Whoops. The solution?
5 Personal Benefits of Employee Engagement -
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MARCH 30, 2016
In the past, as we conducted workshops on employee engagement , we found that we needed to show the organization the benefits of an engaged workforce. Increased profitability, improved quality, reduced turnover, and many other benefits were an important part of our presentations. Download employee engagement survey. So, what about the personal benefits of employee engagement? What’s in it for me?
INFOGRAPHIC: MAGIC – Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement -
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JUNE 1, 2016
What is Employee Engagement? Employee engagement is an emotional state where employees feel passionate, energetic, and committed to their work. This translates into employees who give their hearts, spirits, minds, and hands to deliver a high level of performance to the organization. Read what Employee Engagement is NOT). Download Employee Engagement Survey. Important? Of course.
2016 Training Program Best Practices
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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it
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Why 360 Feedback?
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FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Why 360 Feedback? Without feedback, we tend to invent our own reality. Using 360-degree feedback is a vital part of performance, growth, and development. Understanding ourselves and how we interact with others helps us understand the impact we have on those around us. This is where 360 feedback comes in. Targeted Development. Focuses on personal and career development. Team Effectiveness.
Understanding the Employee Engagement Survey Provider Landscape: A Guide to the 6 Vendor Types -
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JUNE 28, 2016
As employee engagement has become one of the top concerns for executives around the world, many companies have developed new and innovative solutions to measure employee engagement. This has created a challenge for organizations as they try to decide on a method and survey provider that best matches their unique needs. Employee Engagement Survey Provider Types. Employee Engagement
4 Ways Great Leaders Can Overcome Company Scarcity Issues
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JANUARY 19, 2016
I teach an introductory political science class at a local university. This class utilizes an interdisciplinary approach by exploring basic economic theory, American history, and a bit of political philosophy. When introducing the section on economics, I try to reinforce the premise that economics is really the study of scarcity – what do you do when there is not enough to go around. Of course not!
Stop Wasting Your Money on Employee Satisfaction
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MARCH 7, 2016
still believe the above—for the most part. However, my thoughts have shifted. I still believe that most underperformers are unhappy. Aren’t we generally happiest when we feel that we are performing well? Still, that doesn’t explain the fact that there are many employees who are “getting by” at work, just “putting in their time,” yet they seem to be perfectly content. We’ve all seen it.
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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1Making Dynamic Performance. Development a Reality eGuide 3Introduction Does your organization want to adopt. more dynamic approach to managing. performance and developing employees? We see a stampede of organizations. moving in this direction. At the same. time, we also see that, all too often, managers in such organizations are simply. not prepared to follow through because. Without clear. Maybe.
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12 Tips to Turn Employee Engagement Survey Results into Increased Organization Performance -
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MAY 25, 2016
The key to increasing employee engagement is to accurately measure it and use the results to make changes that impact organization performance. We’ve created a list of 12 recommendations to turn employee engagement survey results into increased performance based on our experience working with hundreds of organizations over the years. Download Your Employee Engagement Survey Sample.
How to Increase Connection with Culture and Trust - DecisionWise
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OCTOBER 26, 2016
Culture could be described as the social operating system of the organization, the underlying environment that shapes social interaction and shapes the emotions involved in the company and its work toward a specific end. Simply put, it’s “the way we do things around here.” The culture of Apple is based on beauty and creating incredible experiences, while the culture at Google is built around personal autonomy and solving the world’s problems. Employees connect around those cultural assumptions. If your organization were a person, how would you describe it? Conservative? Compassionate? Stuffy?
Motivate me. I dare you.
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JANUARY 27, 2016
In coaching individuals, one of the questions I often choose to begin a dialogue on leadership is, “What is your primary responsibility as a leader of this organization?” The responses vary greatly and, although some would claim that their response to this question is THE answer, I’ve found a number of replies that I might agree with. Entertaining, somewhat sad, but not motivating. dare you.
INFOGRAPHIC: The ROI of Employee Engagement -
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JUNE 10, 2016
Do Employee Engagement Initiatives Really Work? What’s the payoff? We asked human resources executives and managers in over 200 organizations around the world about the return on investment from employee engagement initiatives and impact that employee engagement has on the organization. Download PDF Infographic – The ROI of Employee Engagement. The overall response was, “POSITIVE.”
Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance
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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture
VIDEO: The Influence of Managers on Employee Engagement - DecisionWise
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AUGUST 16, 2016
Download: Employee Engagement Survey. Let’s talk about our research on the Influence of Managers on Employee Engagement. We recently conducted the largest study of its kind to compare the level of employee engagement of managers to that of their direct reports. This study included data from 22 companies, almost 19,000 employees, and 2,300 managers. That’s a huge difference. .
VIDEO: 5 Employee Engagement Best Practices - DecisionWise
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AUGUST 31, 2016
In the VIDEO: 5 Employee Engagement Best Practices I share 5 employee engagement best practices from our 2016 State of Employee Engagement Report. Download our 2016 State of Employee Engagement Report to learn about other best practices and to see how your organization compares. 5 Employee Engagement Best Practices. Want to learn more?
10 Best Practices to Improve Employee Survey Participation Rates -
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JUNE 6, 2016
A company with locations all over the US finally decided to run an employee survey. The company’s noble hope was to measure levels of employee engagement to better understand the causes of rising attrition rates. After an inspiring meeting with the VP of HR (let’s call her Susan), the HR team put its entire weight behind the survey project. Download employee engagement survey. Offer incentives.
Are Your Employees Engaged? Look in the Mirror. -
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MAY 3, 2016
Are your employees engaged? Look in the mirror. No matter what it says on your business card, you’re an employee and you have responsibility to be an engaged employee. But you may also be a manager, and as a manager you have some responsibility for the engagement of others as well. If your employees are engaged in the work they do, results will show. The same goes for a team that is disengaged.
Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation
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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have.
Star Wars, Expectations, and Leadership
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JANUARY 12, 2016
You know you have a problem when you start seeing leadership issues in everyday things, such as the new Star Wars Movie, Episode VII, The Force Awakens. guess that’s our lot in life. Our current research efforts here at DecisionWise are focused on the best way to define expectations in the workplace. So, what does this have to do with the new Star Wars movie? Did the movie itself change?
VIDEO: The Impact of 360-Degree Feedback Coaching - DecisionWise
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AUGUST 9, 2016
Download 360-Degree Feedback Survey. Take a look at our research on the impact 360-degree feedback coaching. By coaching, I mean sitting down with someone to debrief their 360-degree feedback results and helping them to create an action plan. For the purpose of this study, we collected feedback from 244 leaders from a Fortune 500 company with locations around the world.
10 Key Trends from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report (2016) -
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MARCH 21, 2016
I have taken the time to summarize this year’s (2016) Global Human Capital Trends report that was published by Deloitte. The post 10 Key Trends from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report (2016) appeared first on DecisionWise. Deloitte’s report lists 10 key trends in human capital, and I am presenting them in their order of importance. Shape Culture: Drive Strategy.
INFOGRAPHIC: 8 Employee Engagement Mythbusters
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JANUARY 6, 2016
With more organizations becoming aware of the importance of engagement , the media coverage of the topic has become widespread and more scholarly. This, This, however, can be a double-edged sword. In a September 3, 2011, opinion piece in the New York Times titled “Do Happy People Work Harder?” Harvard Harvard professor Teresa Amabile and researcher Steven Kramer shared some of the results from a project in which they collected more than twelve thousand diary entries from 238 employees at seven companies. Amabile and Kramer write: Managers can help ensure that people are happily engaged at work. Doing
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success
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From Performance Management. to Performance Development eGuide 2Part 2: A Roadmap. for Change In Part 1 of this eGuide, we explored the confluence. of factors that’s driving change in how performance. is managed and how organizations are moving. away from the traditional annual review process to. more real-time dynamic approach. This all sounds. very logical, of course, until an organization starts to. push forward with change then finds that there may. be some very real barriers to moving forward. successfully transition from a traditional performance. management approach to a more dynamic.
VIDEO: Employee Satisfaction and Engagement. What’s the Difference? - DecisionWise
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AUGUST 24, 2016
Employee Satisfaction vs. Employee Engagement. What are the differences between employee satisfaction and employee engagement ? Employee satisfaction is the extent to which the employment contract is fulfilled. Employees feel satisfied when basic hygiene factors are met. These factors include pay, benefits, job training, safety, and the tools and resources to do the job.
How to Manage Poor Attitudes and Negativity in the Workplace (INFOGRAPHIC) -
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APRIL 19, 2016
Negativity in the workplace has a stronger influence on an organization than positivity, so it is crucial to manage it quickly and effectively. In this infographic, learn the effects of negative attitudes in the workplace and how to better manage negative attitudes in your personal environment, or within the team you manage. Infographic by Quill. Do you like Infographics?
EP013 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast – The Value Of Your Employee Value Proposition (EVP) -
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MAY 6, 2016
DecisionWise Principal Consultant, Kristin Chapman, provides best-practice advice on how to develop your organization’s employee value proposition. Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the value an employee receives from the organization in exchanged for his or her work. It includes all of the tangible (i.e. compensation, benefits, work schedule) and intangible benefits (i.e
EP014 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast – How Wells Fargo’s Employee Experience Hurt Their Customer Experience - DecisionWise
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Listen as authors of the upcoming book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Tracy Maylett Ed.D. and Matthew Wride, J.D. discuss principles from their new book. Listen to the authors talk about the Wells Fargo scandal and how bank employees created fake accounts to help them reach sales goals. Is it possible that a more aligned employee experience (EX) could have prevented the fiasco that Wells Fargo now faces? Ultimately the book and the authors teach that it’s the people of the organiziation that create the customer experience.
Learner motivation explained! Learn how to use an LMS to motivate your learners to upskill
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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory
Avoid Mayhem: Don’t Let Your Employee Engagement Survey Turn Out Like Your Last DIY Home Improvement Project
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JANUARY 20, 2016
5 Criteria You Must Meet Before Running Your Own Employee Engagement Survey. Most leaders understand that employee engagement surveys are an important tool in helping to attract, retain, and motivate an organization’s workforce. There are pros and cons to both options. Like many, I enjoyed watching the recently completed NCAA Football playoffs – but not just the games – the ads as well.
Stop Blaming Millennials for Unrealistic Employee Expectations - DecisionWise
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JULY 12, 2016
Here’s a situation that may feel like déjà vu to some. You have just concluded a difficult conversation with Tim, one of your software developers; while Tim works hard, he is certainly not your best developer. Yet, he just left your office wondering why he has not been given a raise in the last four months. The irony? Tim has only been with your organization for five. You slowly exhale, wondering how in the world you ended up with that set of unrealistic expectations. Download the Employee Value Proposition Survey and Report. Well, check your privilege at the door. He’s right.
11 Ways 360-degree Feedback Can Fall Short
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FEBRUARY 22, 2016
At DecisionWise, we are strong advocates of a well-designed 360-degree feedback program. So, you might find it strange for me to be writing on the hazards associated with 360-degree feedback. No process is perfect, and the 360-degree process can have some serious shortcomings when not handled effectively. If not properly implemented, it can also have some serious drawbacks. Probably not.
How to Shape Your Employee Experience Using Data - DecisionWise
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OCTOBER 18, 2016
As humans, we are incredibly good at grouping things. We are also very good at seeing patterns. Indeed, pattern recognition has been shown to be a clear evolutionary advantage for our species. That said, our natural penchant for patterns can sometimes obscure what is really happening. If you spend any time with optical illusions, you’ll quickly see how our brains distort reality by using innate patterns, or “shortcuts.” Predictable patterns mean our brains have to work less, and nature loves to conserve energy. Read the book about The Employee Experience. Consider the following. Metric #1.
HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces
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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace
When Engagement Replaces Satisfaction -
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MAY 18, 2016
Download the 2016 State of Employee Engagement Report. Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with volunteers who do work in developing countries. These volunteers—typically university students—dedicate up to three months each summer in leaving their comfortable, US-based surroundings to work in locations where poverty is the norm. And what’s really amazing… they pay to do this!
How Many Comment Questions Should Your Employee Survey Have? - DecisionWise
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JULY 6, 2016
When we begin working with an organization to conduct an employee engagement survey , we often see a burning eagerness to ask open-ended questions about every single variable in the organization. After all, open-ended questions provide color and nuance to qualitative data—right? Though collecting more qualitative data is a noble desire, there are good reasons to use no more than two open-ended questions. Download Employee Engagement Survey Sample. In my last blog, I advocated all the reasons why open-ended questions are so valuable. appeared first on DecisionWise.
The Five Keys of Employee Engagement—it’s “MAGIC!” - DecisionWise
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AUGUST 22, 2016
It’s a simple concept: when we are able to throw our hearts, spirits, minds, and hands into the work we do, we produce better results. We are happier, healthier individuals, and more successful organizations. So, why are some organizations engaging, while others aren’t? Through our research of over 14 million employee survey responses across 70 countries, we found some surprising results. Bottom line? It’s… well… MAGIC ! It’s not foosball tables in the breakroom. It isn’t pet care, free haircuts, and free food. It’s not even lucrative employee stock programs. They’re M-A-G-I-C: Meaning. Growth.
What is a Leadership Derailer? -
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APRIL 4, 2016
At DecisionWise, we measure leadership derailers on our 360-degree feedback surveys using a separate section from the normal leadership competencies. Without a derailers section, you are probably missing important pieces of your 360-degree feedback puzzle. Derailer Insight : High Scores on Micromanagement. Standard 360 Result : Low scores on Teamwork and Collaboration. Common Leadership Derailers.
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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1Why Your Company Will Need to. Rethink Performance Management eGuide Part 1: The Argument. for Change 2 3About this Guide Organizations are increasingly. moving from traditional performance. management systems (organized as. an annual review process) to newer. performance development systems. organized around real-time dynamics). Here, in Part 1, we describe why. happening now. As you’ll see, the.
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