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News You Might Have Missed – May 31

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If Managers Aren’t Engaged, Do You Think Workers Are? Engagement is linked to productivity, retention, morale and innovation. But if your managers aren’t engaged, their direct reports won’t be, either. Keeping Employee Engagement Up During Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Hello from HighGround! Meet Gina Slesar

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How well do you know the people behind HighGround? Today we cornered Gina Slesar for her thoughts on working at HighGround. She certainly knows her way around the office, having worked on the Sales, Customer Success and Product teams. How’d you get your start at HighGround? I joined HighGround in February 2015.

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17 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged in your Performance Management & Social Recognition Program

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These can be specific to company events or milestones or celebrate new products or services. One HighGround client created a Chuck Norris-themed badge to celebrate its “Day of Awesomeness.”. The easier the program is for employees to participate, the better. or even made up holidays. Integrate, integrate, integrate.

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Defining Employee Engagement and Initiating Change

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Employee engagement is talked about often but rarely clearly defined. and Dean Carter, VP of Human Resources and Shared Services for Patagonia recently co-hosted a webinar with the Human Capital Institute called, “ It’s Time to Rethink Your Employee Engagement Strategy. What does employee engagement mean?

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Bad Bosses: It’s Not Always Their Fault

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It’s a recipe for failure that many organizations need to fix before their best employees get burned out from lack of direction, recognition, or development – and in many cases, all three. Managers have the opportunity to drive better employee engagement but they need the right tools in place to be successful.

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Which Comes First: Employee Engagement or Performance?

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While there’s certainly a correlation between engagement and performance, it’s widely misunderstood. On the surface, it would appear that an engaged workforce leads to a high-performing one. Happy employees mean productive employees, right? If engagement is an issue, take a look at performance metrics.

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Five Companies Doing Summer Perks Right

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While some companies might assume that providing summer perks leads to less productivity and decreased engagement , research has shown that the opposite is actually true. Here are five companies that are taking perks to the next level to keep employees happy and productive. Work-from-anywhere Fridays ( Onboardly ).

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