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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.

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