The concept of Employee Engagement has grown significantly in popularity over the years. Research shows that more traditional concepts of employee opinion or employee satisfaction don’t necessarily correlate to the likelihood that employees will stay and thrive, go above and beyond their primary job duties, or recommend the company’s products and services to customers. But those are the very definitions of employee engagement. Research also shows that top performers tend to be more engaged than average or low performers and they out-produce their counterparts. So, the question is NOT whether keeping workers engaged is important or not. Most senior leaders today would agree it is. The million dollar question is ‘HOW do we engage our workers’? Or, more pointedly, ‘How do we engage what is now a very diverse workforce’? We don’t all follow the beat of the same drum. (Some of us have trouble deciphering text messages from Millennials, let alone producing a beat they might follow!). But if we study what’s important to the generations and we study what influences engagement, we find quite a bit of overlap and some pretty easy ‘fixes.’
9 Best Practices for Employee Engagement Initiatives
A successful employee engagement initiative can make lasting and effective changes in the workplace.
Interviewing Tips: What to Say and Ask (PDF)
When conducting an interview, employers and their hiring managers need to keep in mind what to say and what not to say and ask in an interview to stay legal, attract great talent, and make good hiring decisions.
Employers’ Use of On-Site Sales Training Rises from 2010
A 2011 survey shows that U.S. employers increased their use of on-site sales training from the previous year. The percentage of employers using on-site classroom training also slightly increased from 2010.
15 Ways to Reduce Hiring & Termination Liability
Issues involving hiring and termination liability are two of employers’ most common questions and concerns. Here are 15 ways that you and your managers can reduce liability when hiring and terminating employees.
3 Tips for Updating Your Compensation Program
Updating your salary structure? Market data discrepancies, pay compression, and alignment with the compensation philosophy are all problems employers experience when updating their compensation programs. Here are some tips to deal with these problems:
6 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process
Job candidate engagement and relationship management, recruitment metrics and streamlining, selection assessment, and hiring manager relations are all key areas of opportunity for many organizations and some of the major hiring practice trends.
Cleveland Leadership Center Offers Programs for Our Region’s Leaders
The Cleveland Leadership Center offers five outstanding, interconnected flagship programs. Leadership Cleveland, Cleveland Bridge Builders, Civic Leadership Institute, (i)Cleveland, and Look Up to Cleveland provide participants with an economic, social, and political context for our region. This context motivates participants to be active and engaged. An active, engaged civic community is essential for a healthy business community. And a healthy business community is a competitive asset in a global economy. Learn about joining an engaged, active community of leaders at www.cleveleads.org.
5 Secrets to a Becoming a Better Workplace
Why do some organizations receive more qualified job applicants? Have more positive work environments? Experience lower turnover? Enjoy higher employee engagement? Develop more innovative products? Here are five (5) of their top secrets.
8 Steps in a Compensation Project
Compensation initiatives are often on many employers’ agendas, so we’ve summarized eight (8) steps in a basic compensation project.
What a Manager Needs to Know to Drive Project Success
The challenge in project success rests in the ability to deliver to the desired business goal in the desired time frame and within the available budget. These three forces: time, cost, and quality, are often in conflict with each other. The Project Management Institute (PMI) has defined nine body of knowledge areas that when followed, would increase probability of project success. However, if you are not a full-time project manager and still want to increase your project results, follow these three project management principles:
Creating a Wellness Initiative: 5 Steps
Wellness programs and initiatives are often on many employers’ agendas. With wellness’ increasing popularity in the workplace and ability to successfully contain health insurance costs, we’ve summarized five important steps to creating an effective wellness program or initiative.
