Achieving extraordinary employee engagement improvement – quickly – is the real challenge. To do this, you have to push against inertia and move people and your organization much further and faster than they would go under ordinary conditions.
Many leaders ask the same questions, such as: What is typical improvement in engagement in one year? What are extraordinary companies doing to achieve big engagement improvements? How much do we need to improve engagement drivers to achieve desired engagement outcomes?
Survey trends from organizations representing more than 420,000 employees reveal that engagement outliers – businesses that go well beyond the average to achieve extraordinary engagement improvement, year over year – increase engagement by 11% or more each year.
These outliers include:
To become an engagement outlier, an organization must look at areas such as a culture of engagement created by leaders and being clear about the behaviors expected from employees, while realizing the real value of employee engagement.
We would like to thank Ken Oehler, Ph.D. for contributing his insights to this article.
Employee Engagement is at an all-time high, but rough waters lie ahead as organizations lead through change to the NeXt Normal.
We have identified five tangible steps organizations can use to assess, understand, and take action on the employee engagement levels of employees during organizational change.
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