The Employee Engagement Group’s new six-minute online assessment is receiving rave reviews from executives in diverse industries, especially with many organizations looking to revamp or augment the traditional annual performance review. “I used the Engagement Accelerator for a newly promoted manager to help her understand how to motivate and manage her team,” says Julie Crisafulli… [Read More]
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Guest Blog Post on Project-Based Businesses and Incentive Compensation
Project-Based Businesses and Incentive Compensation By Brian Siefkes, posted on PSMJ Blog February 01, 2017 If you work in a project-based business, finding ways to incentivize your project teams can present some delicate challenges. No two projects are alike. There can be any number of variables that affect the financial performance of the project and often… [Read More]
This Month’s Free Resources: Focus on Feedback
For the February-March period, we dug into our Training Toolbox to offer you some free tools on giving effective employee feedback. From exercises to reference guides, these are just a handful of the tools available in the full Training Toolbox! Membership offers elite access to a full suite of training materials, including fully customizable forms, PowerPoint presentations, and implementation… [Read More]
Could 2017 See the Death of the Performance Appraisal?
A growing body of data suggests that the traditional annual or twice-yearly performance appraisal may have outlived its usefulness. Today, information is both transparent and instantaneous, goals are mutable, and organizations of all kinds are ditching the paper trail. Managers and employees alike are looking for less formal and more frequent touchpoints to check in… [Read More]
This Month’s Free Training Toolbox Resources: Getting the Most out of Your Team
This month, we pulled some free employee engagement resources out of our Training Toolbox on how to engage high-impact teams! Learn how to distill, evaluate and prioritize ideas from brainstorming sessions… the best framework for goal-setting… how to encourage constructive feedback… and techniques for facilitating group discussions. These are just a handful of the tools available in… [Read More]
Make Employee Engagement Your 2017 Resolution
As 2016 comes to a close… Our inboxes are flooded with “best of…” and “worst of…” lists, compilations of the year’s biggest news and events, and advice on how to make 2017 a better year than the last. We don’t recommend making a best and worst office news list, but we do encourage you to think about… [Read More]
Free Leadership Materials from our Training Toolbox!
Did you know that The Employee Engagement Group offers elite membership to a full suite of training materials, including fully customizable forms, PowerPoint presentations, and implementation guides? It’s true! Our Training Toolbox offers scalable pricing for one-year memberships, during which time everything you download is yours to use… forever. This month, we’re focusing on founder and CEO… [Read More]
The Employee Engagement- Corporate Culture Connection
Our guest blog post this month by Cynthia Fortsmann of CultureTalk gives great insights into the relationship between culture and engagement in the workplace, including how to cultivate a culture that attracts and engages employees who can help your organization succeed. -Bob Kelleher, Chief Engagement Officer, @BobKelleher The Employee Engagement-Corporate Culture Connection How people feel about the… [Read More]
Taking Responsibility for Your Own Engagement… The Missing Piece?
For the fifteen plus years since it became a hot topic, employee engagement has been a stick-and-carrot arrangement for many organizations. Instead of employee satisfaction – indulgent pay, expansive benefits, fancy perks – engagement focuses on something deeper: employees’ emotional desire to achieve, be aligned, and to work for a culture that fits who they… [Read More]
Free Webinar: Boost Engagement Through Personal Accountability
On Wednesday, September 28 at 9 AM Pacific/12 PM Eastern, Bob Kelleher and Training Magazine will be partnering to present a complimentary 60-minute webinar on the theme of personal accountability with regards to engagement – a major theme of Bob’s last book, I-Engage. Gallup and others claim that in spite of an improved economy, only… [Read More]