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1. Employee Engagement: Unleash the Drive to Excel Barb Krantz Taylor (bktaylor@thebaileygroup.com)
2. Video What about this employee looks engaging?
What does the manager do that helps engage the employee and contribute to performance excellence?
What lessons did you learn from this video?
3. How do you know whos engaged? Clear about purposeseek ways to improve
Bring full selves to work
Highly skilled
Need for achievement
Positive energy
Committed to team
Upbeat and proud to work for you
4. A personal connection employees have to their job, organization, manager, or team that motivates them to excel at their work.
Employee Engagement
5. Whats the Difference? Engagement
vs.
Satisfaction
6. Where Engagement Happens
7. Exactly HOW engagement leads to organizational success is described by this Gallup Pathit starts with employees knowing themselves and their fit, it includes managers who take the time to understand and form effective, trusting relationships with their staff AND deploying that staff well. And if that is done, this leads to the organizational success leaders needassuming they are leading well!Exactly HOW engagement leads to organizational success is described by this Gallup Pathit starts with employees knowing themselves and their fit, it includes managers who take the time to understand and form effective, trusting relationships with their staff AND deploying that staff well. And if that is done, this leads to the organizational success leaders needassuming they are leading well!
8. Employee Engagement Results 38% higher customer satisfaction
22% higher productivity
27% higher profits
9. More Results 26% higher productivity
13% higher returns to shareholders
20% fewer missed work-days
of Highly Engaged employees exceed or far exceed expectations
10. And More Perform 20% better
Are 87% less likely to leave the organization
11. Employee Engagement Drivers
12. What Drives Engagement?
13. How do I get some of that????
14. It takes a village
Employees
Managers
Senior Leaders
Human Resources
15. Employees Role Proactively manage career
Know self (strengths, values, contributions)
Explore (feedback and information seeking)
Prioritize
Set Goals/Take Action
16. Managers Role
17. Leaders Role Capitalize on engageable moments
Demonstrate strong leadership and clear direction
Manage organizational change with effective communication
Emphasize customer focus
Institute and communicate a system of equitable rewards
Invest in the core
18. Human Resources Role Be a partner
Be a role model
Coach leaders, managers, and employees
Integrate into (required?) management development/training
Align policies, procedures, and practices
Measure engagement
Track results
19. Taking Charge of Your Career
20. What is a career?
21. Career Fit Work (talents, challenge, growth)
Environment (physical/cultural)
Relationships (supervisor, colleagues)
Rewards (pay, benefits, hours)
22. What fits for you? Quickly jot down what you know about your 4 areas of fit
How easy/hard was this?
How specific are your answers?
How many of your employees (or people you know) would
1) find this easy?
2) have specific answers?
23. Engaging Conversations
24. Now, I understand why these conversations dont always happenon both sides. This cartoon says it allNow, I understand why these conversations dont always happenon both sides. This cartoon says it all
25. Yes, it takes some skills, which we will practice today but it may help you to know that it is NOT the outcome of the conversations that matter mostits the fact you HAVE them in the first place. Why? Because it signals once of the core drivers of engagement.my manager CARES ABOUT ME!Yes, it takes some skills, which we will practice today but it may help you to know that it is NOT the outcome of the conversations that matter mostits the fact you HAVE them in the first place. Why? Because it signals once of the core drivers of engagement.my manager CARES ABOUT ME!
26. Engaging Conversations
27. Engaging Conversations--Step by Step Initiate
Dialog about engaging moments and employee strengths
Compare strengths to current work
Make a Strengths Development Plan
Check-in regularly So, this is how you have onelike acts in a play, do it this order and dont skip, otherwise it gets confusing!So, this is how you have onelike acts in a play, do it this order and dont skip, otherwise it gets confusing!
28. Initiation Explain What, Why, WIIFM, WIIFY, Why now?
Probe for questions/understanding
Set meeting
Provide Engaging Questions
Initiation is a critical stepespecially if this is a new thing for you. You cant just invite employees without providing a context and an explanation!Initiation is a critical stepespecially if this is a new thing for you. You cant just invite employees without providing a context and an explanation!
29. Engaging in Dialogue Coaching is unlocking a persons potential to maximize their performance. It is helping them learn rather than teaching them The best part of the engaging conversation is the dialog that happens. It requires a coaching approach, and this is what its aboutThe best part of the engaging conversation is the dialog that happens. It requires a coaching approach, and this is what its about
30. Think about a time
at work when you
were at your best
31. Practice Dialogue Ask open ended questions
Go deeper with questions like:
What did you like about that?
Tell me more about _____.
Im curious about _____.
What did you mean by ______?
Practice listening behaviors (eye contact, leaning forward, nodding) So, were going to practice having the dialog, which will also start to fully engage you! Heres the basics to the dialog you are about to have. Here are the questions to start withand the point is to keep the conversation going by asking MORE questionsits NOT an interview, its a conversation!So, were going to practice having the dialog, which will also start to fully engage you! Heres the basics to the dialog you are about to have. Here are the questions to start withand the point is to keep the conversation going by asking MORE questionsits NOT an interview, its a conversation!
32. Engaging Questions What did you like about that?
Im curious about _____
Tell me more about _____
What did you mean by ______?
Help me understand _____
What else?
33. Preparing for an Engaging Conversation List each staff member
How engaged are they?
How do you see their strengths fit their job?
What are your hopes/expectations for their development?
Keep performance issues separate from engagement!
Get ready to listen to employee perspectives
So, lets say you dont want to do a surveyyou can do something immediatelyI suggest you do this on your own time and perhaps partner up with another manager in your area.HANDOUTSo, lets say you dont want to do a surveyyou can do something immediatelyI suggest you do this on your own time and perhaps partner up with another manager in your area.HANDOUT
34. Work harder
Aim higher
Perform better
Stay longer
Engaged Employees
35. We have been paying attention to the importance of customer service in our organizations for a long timeBy now, we agree how important it is for our organizations. This quote reminds us that if you dont start with your employees, your customer service will not go as far. We have been paying attention to the importance of customer service in our organizations for a long timeBy now, we agree how important it is for our organizations. This quote reminds us that if you dont start with your employees, your customer service will not go as far.
36. THANK YOU! Barb Krantz Taylor 763-545-5997