What is Employee Engagement?
Employee engagement is an emotional state and a behavioral reaction to an employee's relationship with his/her manager and perception of the organization. Engagement involves an employee's degree of focus, motivation, and passion for his/her job.
Why is Employee Engagement Important?
Engaged employees are motivated toward the organization's success, take pride in their work, suggest improvements, pursue self-development, boost organizational performance, expend discretionary effort, say good things about their organization, and plan to stay.
What is the Business Case?
Most organizations have significant opportunities for improvement. Across the U.S. only 31% of employees are engaged. There have been over 100 research studies proving the improvements in organizational performance resulting from engaged employees.
Organizations have a huge opportunity to benefit from a more engaged workforce because only approximately 30% of employees are engaged:
Employees' Engagement needs are logical - such as:
Any supervisor who's willing can improve his/her team's level of engagement because there are employee engagement strategies that prove to be effective
Disney for example:
Supervisors are the key to engaging employees. The two factors that have the greatest impact on an employee's degree of engagement are:
And your supervisors have multiple daily Engagement Coaching opportunities to:
Organizations have a huge opportunity to benefit from a more engaged workforce because only approximately 30% of employees are engaged:
Employees' Engagement needs are logical - such as:
Any supervisor who's willing can improve his/her team's level of engagement because there are employee engagement strategies that prove to be effective
Disney for example:
Supervisors are the key to engaging employees. The two factors that have the greatest impact on an employee's degree of engagement are:
And your supervisors have multiple daily Engagement Coaching opportunities to:
Pete Tosh
Pete Tosh is the Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:Implementing Strategic HR InitiativesMaximizing Leadership EffectivenessStrategic PlanningEnhancing Customer LoyaltyThe Focus Group has provided these consulting and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Pete has worked closely with the leadership teams of organizations such as Exxon, Brinks, EMC, State Farm, Marriott, N.C.I. YKK and Freddie Mac Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry University and Masters degrees in both Business Administration and …
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