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Employee Engagement through
compelling Internal Communication
When there is lack of communication in the organization employees cannot be kept
busy, productive and engaged.
A successful employee engagement strategy helps create a community at the workplace andnot just a workforce. When employees are effectively and positively engaged with their
organisation, they form an emotional connection with the company. This affects their
attitudetowards both their colleagues and the companys clients and improves customer satisfactionand service levels.
Employee engagement
approaches for all employeesBeyond initial recruitment and induction, employeeengagement activities can be broken into a
number of groups. These include:Communications activities
Reward schemes
Activities to build the culture of the
organisational
Team building activities
Leadership development activitiesCommunications activities
These help employees find out what is going onwithin the company outside of their immediateteam. They also help to create an environment oftrust and openness within the organisation wherethey are able to talk openly. Employees who feel
they are listened to are able to expressdissatisfaction and work together to resolve theircauses, without it affecting their performance.Good examples of communications approachesinclude:
Communication forums to provide regular
feedback to all people, including team
meetings, conferences and away Pro-social corporate objectives and
Corporate Social Responsibility
Equal opportunities policies and practices
Initiatives to maintain the quality of worklife
and a balance betweenpersonal/professional lives
Developing a safe, clean and inspiring work
environmentDemonstrating a commitment to
EmployeesReward schemes
Reward schemes are an important part of acompany's overall employee engagementprogramme. Studies have long shown that, whilemoney in itself is not a motivating factor, theabsence of financial reward can be a significant demotivator.Thus the role of reward schemes in
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boosting employee engagement is:
to remove barriers to satisfaction in the
organisation;
to provide a framework for rewarding
everyone in the organisation for theirperformance;
to give those who are motivated by
financial gain an opportunity to achievethis. well beingdays
Activities to develop the culture of theorganisation
Giving employees a feeling of belonging is crucialin creating a thriving organisation that people feelcommitted to and others want to join.
Team building activities
Culture-building activities are great for generating
a feeling of belonging, but all organisations arebuild out of smaller teams who can get on andwork together.Popular approaches include:
Small team recreational activities, such as
bowling, skating, trips to the cinema (orthe pub!)
Social activities, such as family gatherings
and barbeques
Community outreach activities such as
volunteering and fund-raising.
Leadership development activities
A great organisation needs not just a great leader,
but people with leadership skills. This stimulatesgood performance, boosts creativity and easessuccession planning.Good practices include:
Effective Leadership
Effective Performance Management
Fair evaluation of performance
Empowerment through effective delegation
Coaching and mentoring activities to give
honest feedback by supervisors and peers
An open and transparent culture to
empower people and developentrepreneurs
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Employee engagement in
action: Sun MicrosystemsEmployee engagement becomes that much morecritical in such a virtual or global environment.Employee engagement is imperative for anorganisation like Sun as they operate in virtualteams across the world:
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At Sun the virtual nature is partly due to flexibleworking practises. While flexible workingarrangements are a plus for many employees andreduces facility costs for the organisation, thatflexibility comes with some downsides like;isolation, loneliness and an increase in personaldistractions
Isolation, especially when paired with the demandsof work in an increasingly competitiveenvironment, can wear down the sense ofconnection, commitment and excitement about any
job. Thus a critical challenge for managers ofvirtual teams is how to keep remote employeesengaged. At Sun, the concept of employee engagementstarts right from the top:
Scott McNealy, the CEO, interacts with Sun
employees through WSUN, a forum on Sunsintranet. He uses this to sustain an active an
ongoing dialogue on the corporate goals anddirection. Through this interactive on-lineresource he also solicits their feedback and
opinions
Engaging Ideas
One of yhe method which will help businesses discover, design, and deliver ever better ways to inspire
employee engagement and change to accomplish higher business performance. A core product is the
Engaging ideas card pack.
About the pack
The Engaging ideas card pack provides practical exercises and ideas designed to help better inspire
employee engagement and change to deliver higher business performance.
It is not a best practice guide. It is a practical toolkit employee engagement and change inspiration
in a box.
It comprises 54 cards split into three suites discover, design and deliver along with a booklet
providing contextual information. The face of each card describes a single exercise or idea, and the back
of each card provides stimuli designed to inspire fresh thinking and to kick-start action.
Using the pack
Inspirational in its content and potent in its practical bias, you can use the pack with specificity or with
scale: to develop peoples thinking, to enhance your change efforts, as content for workshops andconferences, to help design and deliver a compelling engagement strategy and much more.
Above all, you can use the pack to do what we have designed it to do: get people better engaged on the
issue of engagement. We can help further to support your engagement and change efforts through our
consultancy and implementation services.
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Under the carpet: get squares of carpet and put them in the corners of offices and on factory floors.
Place a sweeping brush next to each square with a sign hanging off it saying What are we hiding under
the carpet?. By the side of the carpet put some pen and response sheets. After a few days collect these
ideas up and use as stimulus for the problem solving and also as content of communication.