cultivating employee engagement

Cultivating Employee Engagement

BI Worldwide

A Conversation Facilitated by David J Kovacovich

OBJECTIVES

• Facilitate an interactive knowledge sharing forum

• Gather your definitions of Employee Engagement

• Review the history of Employee Engagement

• Climb the Employee Engagement Triangle

• Leave with more knowledge and direction for our organizations

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What is Employee Engagement?

Share Your Definition of Employee Engagement…

• There are no wrong answers

Maslow

Benefits

Perks

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Tony Hsieh’s Happiness Model

The Golden Circle

The Employee Engagement Triangle

Compensation

Communication

Culture

What Compensation really Looks Like..?

What Matters Most to Your Employees?

• Cash

• Extended Benefits (Perks)

• Work/Life Balance

• Clearly Defined Path to Success

• Other

Moving Out of Silos

Transitioning from Start Up to Corporation:

• Developed an online employee collective

• Scheduled monthly “people perspectives”

• Created a Mentoring program

• Created a town hall meeting

• Brought in guest speakers

• Published Birthdays and Service Anniversaries

• Created a portal to nominate peers for excellence

How Do You Create Transparency?

Communication Strategy:

What engines do you use to communicate organizational objectives?

Are employee/manager goals aligned?

Who controls organizational progress?

What is the channel from Executives to Managers to Employees?

How can you create meaningful experiences among your employees?

Creating Culture

The Legend of Zappos:

• An educated hiring process

• Company library and educational courses

• Parades, Office tours

• Sharing is caring

• You don’t have to be Zappos – all you need is alignment!

Cultural Assessment

Industry Trends

DepartmentalObjectives

Core Values

Current Programs

Company

Our Challenge Going Forward

1. Analyze your current programs!

2. How are Core Values influencing the workplace?

3. Are departmental objectives aligned to the organizational mission?

4. Are you contending in your industry?

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Go Make the World a Better Place…

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Contact

David J Kovacovich

Business Development Director

BI Worldwide

david.kovacovich@biworldwide.com

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