The Importance of Respect in Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is an essential component of a successful organization. Higher engagement levels lead to lower turnover rates and higher productivity and profitability. Engagement levels of U.S. employees reached a new high of 34.1 percent in March, according to research from Gallup. Engagement levels had been hovering around 32.5 percent in January and February before […]
Team Building Initiatives for Improving Team Engagement
TIGERS® was born of a question: “What is necessary to develop an ethical quality-focused, productive, cooperative and successful group of people?” The answer led to a thorough study of group dynamics in three disciplines: education, psychology, and business. From this study, six principles that support cooperative group dynamics surfaced that form the acronym TIGERS®. The […]
Re-Engaging Employees in 2016
You’ve revamped your interview process. You’ve focused your efforts on hiring the right people for the position. However, your team’s progress is stagnant. The problem might not be your company, but instead part of a worldwide employee engagement crisis. According to research from Gallup, employee engagement in the U.S. has remained low and stagnant since […]
Employee Engagement – How Do You Measure It?
Employee engagement, according to Gallup, has not improved much since 2006. Now it is 2016. If nothing has really changed then how do you measure it to make progress in your organization? Recently Survey Monkey teamed with TMBC a global provider of strengths-based performance measurement tools. After years of global workforce analysis, TMBC has developed […]
TIGERS® Success Series 2015 Employee Engagement Blog Recap
We’ve made it to part three of our four-part 2015 blog recap series. Over the past two weeks, we have reviewed articles from the Polls, Research, and Surveys and Management, Leadership, and HR Issues categories. The links to these recaps can be found here. Part three focuses on Employee Engagement topics, which offer advice with […]
Team Building Activities To Improve Employee Onboarding
You have interviewed all the candidates and have hired the best person for the position. The new team member is now at work for the first day, ready to go. Now what? What team building activities can you deploy to improve employee onboarding? To get the most from all employees, leaders who invest in employee […]
Gallup Poll: Employee Engagement Remains Stagnant
Teambuilding tactics leaders can implement to change the numbers on employee engagement Employee engagement remains steady at 31.9 percent, according to a June Gallup Poll. While employee engagement is higher than it was from 2011 to 2013, it has mostly remained between 31.5 and 31.9 percent for most of 2015. Gallup gathered the numbers through […]
8 Tips For Improving Employee Engagement
Teambuilding tactics leaders can implement to change the stagnant employee engagement numbers Employee engagement remains steady at 31.9 percent, according to a June Gallup Poll. While employee engagement is higher than it was from 2011 to 2013, it has mostly remained between 31.5 and 31.9 percent for most of 2015. Gallup gathered the numbers […]
Engage Employees with Leadership Teambuilding
Team member engagement is one of the most, if not the most, important aspect to organizational success. Employees are companies’ most important asset, and if they are not engaged in their work, then everyone suffers. The employees suffer because they are not performing meaningful work; customers suffer because they are not receiving the organization’s […]
Deploy Employer Flexibility and Team Building Ideas to Increase Employee Satisfaction
A cohesive and collaborative team are essential for your organization’s success, and a new study has found that employer flexibility regarding employee work/life balance is a determining factor in employee satisfaction. Other team building ideas include striving for cohesive teams that understand the importance of personal responsibility. Researchers from the study found that spouses hold […]