A question we’ve all asked ourselves hundreds of times I’m sure!
Well in case you weren’t sure, and more importantly would like to know more about the benefits of employee engagement, then look no further. Just check out this cool animation we’ve produced that answers all those questions and more. We find it to be a great little tool for explaining what engagement is all about to those people that don’t live in it 24/7! Get in touch and send us your feedback.
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It is often said that most conferences and events are about as useful as a chocolate teapot!
The opportunity of bringing together your most valuable people comes around all too rarely, so if you’re making that investment, why not deliver a tangible business improving experience?
View our top tips on how to brew the perfect manager’s conference in this short video.
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In case you missed it, INVOLVE was recently interviewed for a supplement in The Times that was discussing the impact that effective employee engagement can have on a businesses bottom line.
There’re some great statistics and evidence, and look out for the 7 simple tips at the end on how to create an elite squad of motivated over-performers.
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“We should practice what we preach, right?” I always tell clients we try our hardest to do so. There’s no way we can advise the world’s leading organisations on how to motivate, engage and mobilise their people if our own team of 30 aren’t. I’ve just had an experience at my office with my own team which has reassured me we are doing something right.
I should have noticed my Captain Picard (from the Starship Enterprise, obviously!) figurine had gone missing from the window sill behind me, where he’s sat since I started INVOLVE 19 years ago. As the values driven, morally enlightened Captain of the flagship of the fleet in the 23rd Century, he has helped inspire me to role model our own values when we’re going through a corporate wormhole.
I’ve just a hit a significant birthday and I knew the office was organising something. Nothing could have prepared me for the amazing experience that then followed. As I arrived at work, the security guard in our building, jumped out of his chair and saluted me, whilst wearing some kind of hi-tech visor strapped to his head. One of my business partners came running across the reception, dressed fully head to toe as a Starfleet Bridge Officer and started shouting an update on the unfolding situation.
Moments later I was ‘transported’ onto the bridge of a starship, slightly losing my already tenuous grip on reality and instantly reverting to my younger self. Using copious amounts of silver foil, lighting, props, graphics and sound FX on all the monitors and screens, the office had been transformed. The team must have worked for hours overnight. The results were impressive and my grin lasted all week.
Everyone was in full Star Trek costumes, pre-recorded videos came up on a main screen with various team building missions around the office: Build a Lego Enterprise against the clock, translate an urgent Klingon message about the location of Picard, I was asked to perform a lip sync battle to The Jungle Book, using a banana as a microphone and accompanied by the rest of my male colleagues (clearly from Star Trek Next Generation Season 3, Episode 14, where Picard has to lip sync battle the ape like creatures of Flatulon 4 to save mankind). Despite the evidently serious repercussions of losing the battle, it was extremely memorable.
It went on from there but you get the picture – culminating with an away mission to the local mini golf course where we shifted our celebrations to recognise the team’s efforts in delivering a successful first half of 2015.
These things can be so cheesy but this showed 110% effort from the whole team that made it cheese-free and a great experience. I was blown away, its right up there in my top 3 INVOLVE days ever and there have been some serious contenders! For once I got to be an employee of my own agency and if that’s not engaged, I’m not sure what is. My clients can sleep soundly knowing their agency not only talks the talk, but walks the walk (unless it’s too far away, in which case they use the teleporter).
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‘Employee engagement’ has long been used as an umbrella term to describe the connection between a company’s employees and its vision, goals and objectives. The problem with it, and the reason that nearly 70% of change programmes fail, is that it’s passive and promotes a top down, prescriptive approach to communication.