What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 14, 2016

Companies have placed an unprecedented focus on recognition as THE way to drive employee engagement. blame it on the book Drive , which when published, shifted the conversation toward recognition as a driver of performance and engagement (to the exclusion of all else I might add.) Yet engagement numbers still lag. Trish said: “Interesting. Wonder why?”. disagree. Simple.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 6, 2016

“The Rams have consistently spent to the salary cap in each year under Stan Kroenke and have significantly increased the coaching and scouting budgets…Despite these investments and engagements, Rams attendance since 2010 has been well below the league’s average. Louis market and how many companies go about trying to drive employee engagement in their own companies.

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What is Paul Thinking

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

If you work in corporate America you worry about employee engagement. If you work in corporate “World” you worry about employee engagement. And if you pay attention to employee engagement data you know it really hasn’t changed much in 10 years or so. Hovering around 30%, employee engagement is the Groundhog’s Day of HR issues.

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What is Paul Thinking

APRIL 4, 2016

Why else would people write about treating employees like cows? Contented cows give more milk ergo contented employees give more work. Create contented employees and you get more output with very little if any additional input. It’s a cold-war approach to engagement. Mutually assured engagement. We have those “correlated” studies between engagement and profits.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 20, 2016

For the survey challenged, pulse surveys are quick, fast, short, surveys that can be sent out daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc., to solicit feedback on how employees “feel” about their job, the company and their manager. Annual surveys are at best an average of 12 months of how an employee feels and at worst the way an employee feels at that precise moment they take the survey.

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What is Paul Thinking

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

posted a year ago on HRExaminer that employee engagement is a long-now play. took the position that employee engagement is built over many interactions and many years. Building trust and engagement with your employees wasn’t something that happens quickly. Time is a necessary ingredient in your engagement recipe. Necessary but not wanted. Who knows.

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What is Paul Thinking

AUGUST 11, 2016

Culture is what happens in the conference rooms and on the phones of your employees. You can eliminate annual performance reviews and inundate your employees with pulse surveys until you (and them) are blue in the face, and still not have the culture you want. The behavior of your employees (both the executives and the rank and file) is a function of the world they work in.

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What is Paul Thinking

APRIL 11, 2016

Employee Engagement. We’ve been running engagement activities for 10 years. Are all of us who focus on helping companies address employee [and other audience] engagement stuck in a rut? Filed under: Analytics , Blog Posts , Engagement , Human Resources , Management , Research Tagged: data , Engagement , evidence , Featured , HR , research. No effect.

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elements to work together: Motivation: Managers have to want to do it and employees have. The vast majority of employees at. Success relies on both managers and employees engaging in. managers and their employees. Feedback loops so you employees and their managers. direction to employees Having candid dialogue with. help employees avoid. getting engaged, end with assessing progress, and. employee performance by 25%, employee. engagement by 52%, and employee retention. coach and support the employee going.

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 5, 2016

And maybe that is why the whole employee engagement thing hasn’t really panned out like everyone thought it would. Meaning – because the people that are typically tasked with engagement efforts in most companies are the same people that play defense for a living. Maybe we’re approaching engagement from that the same perspective. Now – go win the engagement game.

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What is Paul Thinking

APRIL 20, 2016

Kristen uses the assessment tools that McQuaig offers to help companies make better hiring decisions, help them drive employee engagement, decrease turnover  – basically, all of the things that almost every HR person has on their priority do list almost every single year. Are you afraid? Are you intimidated? Was there a time in your career where you didn’t say something or didn’t do something because you were intimidated? Either by title, gender, tenure? Was your career stalled or at least slowed down because you were too intimidated by someone at work?

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What is Paul Thinking

JUNE 1, 2016

Entropy isn’t a word that gets a lot of play in the general discussion of business and in any discussion of employee engagement. And that is a fundamental problem with the approach we have to employee engagement. Therefore, to maintain the same level of engagement we MUST intervene. In other words, engagement is never done. But seriously.

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What is Paul Thinking

MARCH 30, 2016

Think about it. A new employee comes into your company as a new hire and they are nothing more than an empty vessel. So if you are asking yourself… “Does culture matter’? “Do the behaviors of my executives matter?”. “Do the behaviors of the average employee matter?”. It was called a chatbot and it went by the name of “Tay.”. Turing test anyone?). That’s not how this works.

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employees have the knowledge and skills. in the seat, driving performance gaps and employee. people manager can improve employee performance. by 25%, employee engagement by 52%, and employee. Engage: Sue is one of the 5%. She’s fully engaged in her development process because she wants to get better. improve employee performance. We’re.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 11, 2016

Employee engagement is just like that. Nextchat: The Long Now of Employee Engagement. This Wednesday at 3:00 pm ET I’ll be jumping in on the @SHRMNextChat, with the hashtag #NEXTCHAT, to “talk” about employee engagement. ONE: The time scale we apply to engagement and. Yes… you will do engagement better after the twitter chat. TRUTH.

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What is Paul Thinking

JULY 14, 2016

By the way – did you see my post yesterday at Fistful of Talent: Employee Engagement Plan – Dumb or Dumber? How often do you do that with your own employees? Connecting job outcomes to positive actions (ie: charity) impact employees even if their performance doesn’t change. Something to learn for you employee engagement gurus. Think Alfie Kohn. Results.

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 17, 2016

That is the same as telling managers to “focus on engagement.” Or – “motivate your team.” Or even – “be more transparent.” And nowhere does this happen more than in the employee engagement world. The entire employee engagement “practice” is rife with simple platitudes and little real, actionable information. The crowd screaming at my kid “Just throw strikes!”.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 13, 2016

Tune in TODAY for SHRM #NextChat at 3:00 pm ET where I’ll be hosting a less than safe discussion on employee engagement (and gloating about my upcoming Billionaire status – yeah – with a “B”.) Filed under: Blog Posts , Engagement , Human Resources , Management , Twitter Chats , Webinars Tagged: #NextChat , Avant Resources , employee engagement , HR , management.

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performance and developing employees? managers do not clearly set expectations, employees don’t feel set up for success. And if it later turns out than an employee. employee may then feel, often justifiably, that they did “the best I could” or “what. our ability to develop employees has never. At the same time, younger employees. help employees avoid.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 25, 2016

If someone who’s ability to be successful and whose company impacts the success of 100s of employees and an even greater number of clients, thinks ignoring most of the signals from the industry news machine is a better way to get more better stuff done… should you consider your own news feed habit? Yeah… that was going to revolutionize employee branding, engagement and recruiting.

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What is Paul Thinking

JUNE 6, 2016

But reading the post also reminded me that the nuances of employee recognition, engagement and incentives are lost on many that don’t do this stuff regularly. As an example from John’s post: “There is no research I can find on the long term effects of incentive driven organizational stress on employees. Can reward and recognition help employee engagement? Rewards.

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What is Paul Thinking

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Exhibit #1: I submit 20 years of employee engagement scores that have moved very little from the 30% range. The article is actually commentary on the impact better pay had on the entire employee experience. When that happens employees are likely to feel better about their job and the fact that Walmart signaled they thought the employees were more valuable than before.

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 11, 2016

Sometimes I surprise myself. I’ve been writing about employee engagement – and engagement in general – for almost 10 years. There are so many things in other disciplines and industries can be repurposed as part of an engagement piece. Now…the engagement part. Good managers hold employee’s hands and help manage their emotions too. Semper discentes.

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What is Paul Thinking

APRIL 25, 2016

The more I write about engagement and motivation for business, the more convinced I become that there are a finite number of rules in the world and those rules are simply repurposed for whatever context we humans play (or work) in. So here’s my riff on the 12 Laws of Karma – and employee engagement.  . To experience engagement you must be engaged yourself.

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What is Paul Thinking

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Example: Recognizing employees impacts employee engagement. Is there ANY reason to have a NEW post that says “recognition is a great way to foster engagement in your company”? My response… Let me get this straight – you put someone in HR that doesn’t understand the basics of engagement? Recognition drives engagement. Employees only work for money.

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What is Paul Thinking

JUNE 21, 2016

Data on how talent acquisition is a key component to achieving results in the modern workforce—including areas that HR Pros love to talk about (employee engagement, retention, etc). I love my FOT tribe… we get to talk about weird and wonderful stuff associated with HR. And we get to talk to interesting people when we do webinars and videos. Webinar Description. Insta-recruiter.

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What is Paul Thinking

JULY 19, 2016

Are you taking responsibility for your own engagement at work? It seems from what we read today that companies own employee engagement and employee happiness. Monica joins me on the “Paul”Cast to talk about how you can control engagement at work. Money idea from the conversation… “Not being in charge of your engagement is only a disservice to yourself your employer.”. Filed under: Engagement , Podcasts , Psychology , Value Tagged: Advice , behavior , Engagement , Featured , podcast , psychology. But not so fast says Monica Fochtman, Ph.D.,

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 18, 2016

Engagement. Everything is about engagement these days. If you’re in marketing you’re worried about consumer engagement. If you’re in HR you’re all about employee engagement. If you’re a B2B sales person you’re all about company engagement with your company. Engagement. Engagement. Marcia. Marcia. Didn’t you?). I get it. We get it. Score!).

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HighGround

MAY 3, 2016

How do you know if employee engagement is really worth the investment in tools in programs to help improve it? Some stats included: $11B is lost annually due to employee turnover. A 5% increase in employee engagement results in a 3% increase in sales. Learn more about how you can create a company culture focused on continuous, real-time feedback and engagement.

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Get Hppy

JUNE 27, 2016

Employee engagement can be a constant struggle for many leaders. They need to be thinking of new ways to keep employees engaged in order to increase job satisfaction, productivity, and retention. One of the growing factors in employee engagement is neuroscience. Curious to know how you can improve employee engagement using neuroscience?

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Get Hppy

AUGUST 7, 2016

Your employees want to feel connected to your organization in a meaningful way. There are many things you can do to “kick it up a notch” and rekindle the excitement and passion your employees have for your company. When working on long-term projects, assign employees from different departments to work together in tackling the task. Employee engagementMix it up.

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Get Hppy

JANUARY 14, 2016

Whether you’re the CEO of a small startup, or the leader of a large company, employee engagement should be one of your priorities. Smart leaders understand that and they also realize that the only way employee engagement strategies are going to work is if they are connected to business strategy. How do you make engagement happen? We call these engagement drivers.

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HighGround

AUGUST 10, 2016

Here are some parallels between the Olympics and the employee engagement in the workplace. In the same way athletes, coaches and host cities prepare for years prior to the Olympics, your employee engagement approach takes time, re-tooling and dedication. Increasing employee engagement is an ongoing effort that can never be marked as “complete” on your checklist. Your strategy must be a continuously “practiced” for your organization to be fully engaged. So practice, practice, practice and go for the engagement gold. It Requires Preparation.

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15Five

JUNE 16, 2016

The #1 topic on the minds of CEOs and senior HR leaders is ‘culture & engagement,’ according to Deloitte’s 2015  Global Human Capital Trends Report. Employee engagement can be defined as proactively and passionately adding value while aligning with the company mission. Employee engagement is not a “nice to have.” ” ].

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David Zinger

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Monday mirth to start your week from John Junson (@junson) the Employee Engagement Network resident cartoonist. David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert. Employee Engagement David Zinger Employee Engagement Speaker discuss discussion employee engagement cartoon John Junson employee engagement cartoonist

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Get Hppy

JULY 14, 2016

Businesses run the risk of hurting productivity and employee engagement by ignoring complaints or actively discouraging complaining. While most forms of complaining can be damaging, there is one type of complaining that businesses should not only accept, but also encourage, because it leads to better employee engagement. Employee engagement

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Get Hppy

JULY 4, 2016

According to the latest Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report from SHRM, 55 percent of employees feel that ownership of their work (i.e. the ability to apply their skills and abilities) is an important factor contributing to how engaged they feel at work. Making Mentorship About Employee Engagement. Employee engagementGoal setting.

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David Zinger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Employee Engagement: Think Different #2. have maintained for years that engagement is an invitation not an imposition. We don’t make someone else engaged. People are not machines and you can’t pull levers or push drivers to engage them. If you want to engage, invite do not coerce. And ” I couldn’t agree more.

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