Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement is your employees' ability and willingness to contribute to organizational success, especially their willingness to give "discretionary effort," going beyond what is typically required in their position to make the organization successful. Employee Engagement is an essential element of organizational health and is the goal of strategic initiatives designed to improve employee attitudes and retention through leadership, co-workers, job/career satisfaction, and a high performing organization. Higher levels of employee engagement are linked to employee commitment, a high performing workforce, satisfied and loyal customers, and a productive and profitable organization.
The model below illustrates the four drivers (in blue) of employee engagement which TalentKeepers' research has shown are essential to creating an engaged workforce. The bottom elements of the model show the outcomes (in gold) of developing and maintaining an engaged workforce.
Employee Engagement Surveys
Employee Engagement Surveys are very important to creating an engaged workforce because it's absolutely imperative to hear the voice of your employees and let them know that their feedback and commitment to the organization is valued. Creating stronger employee bonds enhances brand identity and loyalty, which reinforces your organizational culture. Effective use of employee engagement surveys will enhance productivity while also strengthening employee-leader relationships, supporting a climate in which employees are motivated to work harder and drive results. TalentKeepers offers the following Employee Engagement Surveys:
FirstFit® is a non-anonymous survey that asks the employee what leadership attributes they value most in a leader. This tool is suitable for both incoming and existing employees, and results are instantly available to leaders. This process has proven to be very effective for building strong employee/leader relationships, increasing employee engagement, and reducing voluntary turnover.
FirstFit® Survey:
- 8-minute survey that asks employees what they value most in a leader
- Ranks order of importance of each employee's leader competency preferences
- Valuable process for employees changing leader alignment
- Triggers a 1:1 conversation to review the results: a "Handshake Meeting"
View FirstFit® Survey Sample
Handshake Meeting Guide and on-line learning module for leaders:
- Structured, short 1:1 meeting between a leader and each team member to review FirstFit™ Survey results
- Leader will share what he/she will do to meet each team members’ needs, and the employee will commit to being an active part of the employee engagement effort
- Includes an interactive on-line learning module, Handshake Connection, which trains leaders step-by-step how to conduct a Handshake meeting and provides tips for an effective discussion
View Handshake Meeting Guide Sample 
TalentWatch® is an employee engagement survey that measures organization, job, leadership, and co-worker factors that contribute to reasons why employee join your organization, why they are engaged at work and stay with your organization, and why employees could consider leaving your organization.
Employee engagement is an essential element of organizational health and is the goal of strategic initiatives designed to improve employee attitudes and retention. TalentWatch® measures the core drivers of an engaged workforce to help your organization achieve employee commitment, a high performing workforce, satisfied and loyal customers, and a productive and profitable organization.
TalentWatch® is easy to implement and immediate web-based reports are available. Reports include easy to understand and actionable results for all levels of management, individualized reports for front-line leaders, and comprehensive group results to understand trends within your organization. Customization is an option, and tailored versions still retain core benchmarking comparisons
View TalentWatch® Survey & Report Sample
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TalentKeepers frequently works with organizations to create and implement customized employee engagement surveys. Various factors can drive the need for engagement survey customization such as measuring unique content, such as employees’ opinions of competitive products, services, or companies to special characteristics of the population responding, such as senior executives. Regardless of what factors are driving your need for a customized employee engagement survey, TalentKeepers has the experience to efficiently and effectively help you achieve your goals.
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Employee Engagement Training Programs
This e-learning module teaches leaders how to effectively conduct Handshake meetings with their employees based on their FirstFit® Survey results. This interactive module shares tips and illustrates ways leaders can maximize the value of the Handshake meetings. A companion, instructor-led workshop is also available to supplement or replace the e-learning module.
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This e-learning module is appropriate for leaders and employees who are interested in better understanding the importance employee engagement plays in organizational success. Based on TalentKeepers' latest research on what's critical to creating and maintaining an engaged workforce, this module introduces four drivers of employee engagement: Credible Leadership, High Performing Organization, Job & Career Satisfaction, and Supportive Co-Workers. Learners will experience a variety of instructional techniques including simulations, quizzes, and some discovery exercises to determine their individual and organizational areas of opportunity to improve in the four key areas of employee engagement. Please contact us to learn more.
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This new e-learning module will engage learners in a variety of learning techniques including simulations, quizzes, and best practices to help individuals work most effectively with their co-workers. Content includes tactics and strategies for working effectively with co-workers based on preferences in the areas of communication, work styles, support, task completion, work attitudes, and stress reduction. This training tool will be suitable for all employees and leadership levels, and can be used in conjunction with TalentKeepers' Co-Worker Engagement Tool or as stand-alone training. The training module is scheduled for release in September 2010. Please contact us to learn more.
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Employees may not remember everything that their leaders say to them, but they will remember how their leader makes them feel. Leaders who can inspire and engage their teams, lead teams who will stay longer, feel more satisfied in their work, and deliver better performance. TalentKeepers' Leadership Development Solutions build leadership competencies identified by hundreds of thousands of employees around the world as qualities valued most in a leader. Utilizing TalentKeepers' award-winning instructional design, the learning modules engage learners in a variety of learning techniques including simulations, quizzes, tips and best practices to increase knowledge and skills. Learners enjoy the content, format and, based on numerous case studies, are able to implement their new skills quickly on-the-job resulting in improved employee engagement and performance.
Employee Engagement Tools
Support and mutual respect among co-Workers is critical to creating and maintaining an engaged workforce. The ability for co-workers to work collaboratively with each other as well as share experiences has tremendous impact on the team’s performance, loyalty, and work satisfaction. TalentKeepers is in the process of developing a Co-Worker Engagement Tool to help employees better understand how to work most effectively with each other. Appropriate for all employee and leadership levels, this new tool will allow employees to discover and consider each other’s preferences in the areas of communication, work styles, support, task completion, work attitudes, and stress reduction. Tactics for working more effectively with each co-worker on a team will be provided along with the option to participate in more in-depth training on how to work most effectively with co-workers with different preferences (see Co-Worker Engagement Training Module). This tool is scheduled for release in August 2010. Please contact us to learn more.
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