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]
Employee Engagement Blog
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]
Thinking Forward to End-of-Year Conversations
With summer over and kids back in school, many HR professionals are gearing up for end-of-year discussions. In some organizations, these are loosely framed conversations that are largely based on justifying a year-end bonus (or lack of one). In others, they are rigorously organized and tracked – so much so that managers sometime dread them…. [Read More]
Maintaining Engagement During the “Back to School” Crunch
For many employees, summer means rest and relaxation, regardless of whether it involves a family vacation or less structured “downtime.” With so many of our colleagues and direct reports taking time off, the pace of the workplace can tend to slow down to match this mindset… only to get a jolt when September rolls around. … [Read More]
September is Switch-Gears Month
I’ve got mixed emotions about hanging up my flip-flops for the year. The parts of summer that I love – camping, barbecues, fun on the river – all come with a side of mosquito bites, inadvertent tan lines, and maybe a pound or two that I’d like to shake. But once again, it’s been a… [Read More]