Category Archives: Employee Engagement
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THAT Kind of Job Doesn’t Exist!
Posted on June 8, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee EngagementDo you have a job where you feel valued as a person and not just an employee? Do you feel that your employer understands that both your physical and team environments are important to your overall job satisfaction? I was at breakfast recently and had a chance encounter with a cashier who felt that jobs […]
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Employee Engagement: 4 Things Disney Says You Need
Posted on April 18, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Blog, Employee EngagementIf you want to create the happiest place on earth for your customers, you’re probably going to need some pretty engaged employees to make that happen, don’t you think? Bob Igor, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, believes that. He shared his thoughts on the subject in an employee newsletter (the Disney Newsreel), […]
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Put Down That Saw!
Posted on April 4, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee Engagement, LeadershipSteven Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of the greatest books of all time, if you ask me. It’s not only a must-read, it’s a must-read-many-times kind of book. There’s never a time that I pick it up to re-read, whether in whole or in part, that it doesn’t speak to […]
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work… Unless Your Team Sucks
Posted on March 21, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee EngagementYes, it’s a thoroughly unprofessional heading, but… how many of you can relate to that thought? How many of you have wanted to release your inner vandal on those motivational posters that say things like “Individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean?” As Luis E. Romero notes in his Forbes article […]
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The LOVE Mondays Formula
Posted on March 14, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Career Planning, Employee EngagementTGIM – Thank God It’s Monday! Yeah, right… that’s not a thing, is it? Ryan Houmand, author of the book A Passion for Monday, acknowledges that it’s not. Based on the latest employee engagement polls, he says that seven out of ten workers hate Mondays. But he thinks he knows both why and what to do […]
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Top 20 Factors Contributing to Employee Engagement
Posted on March 7, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee EngagementEmployee engagement is low… how do we fix it? That’s really the bottom line question everyone is asking, right? Gallup continues to report that only 32.5% of all U.S. employees are “engaged” at work, which means that the vast majority of employees are disengaged. That’s a success rate that would be unacceptable in any other […]
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Employee Engagement: It’s Not Just HR’s Baby Anymore
Posted on March 2, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee Engagement“Here come the employee engagement surveys — it must be time for HR to check that box on their lists again!” Before we even begin to dissect that kind of remark, let’s start by giving credit to any company that’s actually even bothered to do employee engagement surveys. While most companies will acknowledge that employee […]
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Employee Engagement: If Jack Welch Thinks It’s Worth Measuring…
Posted on February 29, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee Engagement“Employee Engagement: Fluffy Nonsense or Mission Critical?” That’s the title of a webcast that you can find on the HCI (Human Capital Institute) website, and I love it. And of course, I know the answer. Employee engagement is not fluffy nonsense at all. In fact, as Kim Carlson and Heidi Farris (the presenters in the webcast) […]
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Employee Engagement: What Does Your Crew Look Like?
Posted on February 24, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee EngagementEmployee engagement levels have been hanging around the 33% mark for a long time now. Gallup just released their latest numbers, indicating that the current level of engaged employees in the U.S workforce, as of January 2016, is around 32.5%. And no one considers that “news” because engagement levels have been hovering around that mark […]
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Let’s Get Engaged!
Posted on February 13, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee Engagement, Our Featured Guest BlogsEmployee engagement is finally getting its turn in the limelight. According to the Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends report, HR professionals and business owners surveyed reported culture and employee engagement as their #1 challenge. And two-thirds of them voiced the intent to make employee engagement a strategic priority in the coming year. We recently […]
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