How You Can Use Your Employees’ Strengths to Drive Engagement

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You hired your employees based off of the skills that they have and can bring to your team.  Use those talents to drive engagement in your organization.

According to a Gallup poll, “employees who use their strengths everyday are 6 times more likely to be engaged on the job.”

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Top Employee Engagement Blog Posts: Week of September 28, 2015

Top ESP Blog Posts (green)Looking for some great reads on Employee engagement? Here is aroundup of the top blog posts I read this week. I hope you find them helpful!

1. What You Must Do To Make Your Business More Efficient: Chantal Bechervaise tells you how to get the most of your employees and make your organization run more efficiently.

2. The Truth about Courageous Leadership:  In this post, Lolly Daskal explains how to be a courageous leader by taking risks to encourage your employees.

3. Turn Around Even the Most Unmotivated Team by Being Proactive: Robert Conrad lists the best ways to engage your employees and turn around an unproductive team.

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Recognition vs. Rewards: Which Will Benefit Your Employee Suggestion Program?

Great Job On Sign Shows Praise Appreciation Or ApprovalWant to find a way to recognize your employees and encourage engagement?

In this blog post, I will compare recognition and reward, let you know the benefits of recognition, and give you successful ways to recognize your employees. These points are based on those outlined in the book Employee Driven Quality.

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6 Steps to Start an Employee Suggestion Program: Steps 5 & 6

the victoryThis is the fifth and final post in our series on how to establish a successful Employee Suggestion Program (ESP). We’ve based this series in part on the book Employee Driven Quality.

Our last post covered Step 4: Pilot for Your Employee Suggestion Program.

In this post, I will cover steps 5 and 6: Rolling Out Your Employee Suggestion Program, and Continuous Improvement. Let us take a look at these steps one at a time. [Read more…]

6 Steps to Start an Employee Suggestion Program: Step 4

Cartoon scientistThis is the fourth post in our series on how to establish a successful Employee Suggestion Program (ESP), in part based on the book Employee Driven Quality.

Our last post covered Step 3: Creating A Detailed Framework of Your Employee Suggestion Program.

In this post we will cover Step 4: Pilot for Your Employee Suggestion Program.

What does a “Pilot” mean?

A pilot is a small-scale test that will help your organization learn how a large-scale project might work once implemented.

You can set up the guidelines of your ESP pilot by asking 4 questions. What are these questions? Let us take a look at them one at a time.

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6 Steps to Start an Employee Suggestion Program: Step 3

People holding pieces of a jigsawThis is the third post in our series on how you can establish a successful Employee Suggestion Program (ESP), based on the excellent book Employee Driven Quality.

Our last post covered Step 2, Defining the Objectives of your Employee Suggestion Program.

In this post we will cover Step 3: Creating A Detailed Framework of Your Employee Suggestion Program.

You can create a detailed framework for your ESP by establishing these four areas: 1) Tracking, 2) Training, 3) Recognition, and 4) Continuous Improvement.

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