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Productivity

How much time are employees in your organization spending moving around information via email, text, and voicemail, instead of focusing on the specialized tasks they were hired to perform?  What's the impact of your current email habits on your bottom-line?    #productivity 

Employee Engagement

So much of the employee engagement discussion is what the employer must do in terms of setting the right working conditions that will lead to higher engagement.  However, employees must ask themselves if they're doing their best to be engaged.  Employees will be more engaged at work if they consciously try to be more engaged.  Employees need to take personal responsibility for their own engagement.   #employeeengagement

Employee Engagement

Employees who have clear goals report greater engagement than employees who don't.  No clear goals, no engagement.  Not job description duties and tasks, goals. 

     #employeeengagement  

Processes

Employee and organizational performance is a function of your processes.  When was the last time you evaluated your processes for effectiveness? 

Goal Alignment

When employees personal goals are aligned with organizational goals, their impact is amplified.    #goals   #corporateculture 

Employee Performance

Annual or semiannual performance reviews can never provide the real-time, in-the-moment coaching that helps individuals understand the context for the feedback. 

   #performancereviews   #corporateculture

Manager Engagement

Per Gallup, 51% of US managers are not engaged, and 14% are actively disengaged.  In other words, your boss is probably just as disheartened as you are.  

     #employeeengagement  #corporateculture 

Employee Performance

A Corporate Executive Board (CBE) study found zero correlation between individual employee performance ratings and actual business results.  That's about as uncorrelated as you can get.  #employeeperformance  #corporateculture

Employee Performance

Mutual respect is a job performance booster.

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#EmployeeEngagement

In Gallup's State of the American Workplace survey, which polled more than 195,000 employees, only 2 out of 10 respondents said they had a close friend at work.  Gallup estimates that if this number was tripled to 6 out of 10, the average company would increase its profitability by 12%.  You can hardly expect employees to be engaged in their work if they're not engaged with each other.     #corporateculture, #employeeperformance

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