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21 Contemporary Employee Engagement Tools and Concepts
Here are 21 contemporary employee engagement
tools and concepts that can make a difference
in employee engagement in 2015 and beyond.
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View employee engagement as a rich
experience and opportunity that will benefit
the employee, organization, management,
leadership, customer, and society.
Contemporary approaches to employee engagement
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Start all employee engagement work by
thinking about what needs to stop or end
so that there is capacity and energy for
engagement.
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Ensure that engagement definitions and
measures are inextricably woven into
performance and results.
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Determine the smallest most significant
thing we can do to enhance engagement
then build in structures to ensure it happens
again and again and again…
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Co-create surveys with employees (yes, ask
employees what questions should be asked
on the survey) and offer real time feedback
with courage to face setbacks and
enthusiasm to celebrate progress.
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Use current social media tools to craft
strategy and ensure everyone is on the
same page by letting everyone write on
that page. Embrace the line from positive
deviancy, “never do anything about me
without me.”
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Amplify employee voice so that we can all
be heard and work together to respond to
what we hear.
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Use any signs of disengagement as a
trigger for a meaningful conversation with
the person who is disengaged.
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Ensure that engagement enriches the well-
being and energy of the employee both in-
side and outside of work.
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Recognize that engagement and effort is
always under the discretion of the employee
and work together to enhance the inherent
discretion in all work.
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Ensure senior leadership knows they are
employees too, and work with them to
keep them fully engaged.
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Provide employees with their own
dashboard of engagement to keep them
updated daily or even hourly on their
personal level of engagement.
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Make use of smart phones as a primary
tool for engagement information,
measurement, and intervention.
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Refuse to treat employee engagement work
as a fad or bandwagon and integrate
engagement so tightly into work,
management, and leadership that we
seldom feel the need to use the term
employee engagement.
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Make the workplace so safe that no one
hesitates to sign their name to their work or
their engagement measure. We don’t foster
engagement with anonymous approaches
and survey invisibility cloaks.
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Treat all performance variance conversa-
tions and interventions as engagement
work rather than as another number, tick
box, form, or something to avoid.
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Maximize the amount of autonomy and
freedom within work and encourage
employees strengths to come to the
surface, to shine, and to make our
organization stronger.
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Structure work so that at the end of the day
employees report that work is an energy
gain for them not an energy drain.
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What’s next?
Who is David Zinger?
David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert. He has spent
over 14,000 hours on employee engagement. David founded the 6600
member Employee Engagement Network. He has spoken around the
globe and he wrote 3 books on work.
How can he help me?
David can help you increase employee engagement through small,
simple, strategic, sustainable and significant actions. His help is
infused with value, cost effective, and simple to implement.
How do I get in touch with Mr. Zinger?
Email: david@davidzinger.com
Website: www.davidzinger.com
Phone: 204 254 2130