Synopses & Reviews
Learn to:
- Boost employee engagement levels, productivity, and creativity
- Create and sustain an engaging culture
- Attract and retain the best people
Create and sustain an engaging culture for your employees
Today more than ever, companies and leaders need a road map to help them boost employee engagement levels. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing you to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity, morale, and creativity.
- Employee engagement 101 get started with employee engagement basics, find your employee engagement baseline, and make the connection between engagement and motivation
- Drive home engagement engage employees through leadership, use each generation's values to engage them, and drive engagement through team development, branding, and gamification
- You're hired find the lowdown on hiring for engagement, from interviewing job candidates to effective onboarding techniques to foster engagement
- Measure engagement discover how to measure and recognize engagement, from setting performance goals to offering rewards and recognition (and everything in between)
Open the book and find:
- How to make a business case for employee engagement
- The effectiveness of using each generation's values to engage them
- The importance of communication to engagement
- Characteristics of an engaged team
- How to help struggling employees
- Ten ways to engage new hires
- How engaged employees help your bottom line
- Quick recognition ideas that will boost engagement
Synopsis
Employee Engagement For Dummies seeks to help those in the business world foster employee engagement, a concept that furthers an organization’s interests through ensuring that employees remain involved in, committed to, and fulfilled by their work. It covers:
- Practical steps to boost employee engagement with your company or team
- How to engage different generations of employees
- The keys to reduce your voluntary employee turnover
- Practical tools to help retain and engage your employees
- Processes that will boost employee retention and productivity
- Motivational drivers of your employees which will allow you to capture your employee’s ‘discretionary effort’
- Hiring the best fits from the start
Synopsis
The easy way to boost employee engagementToday more than ever, companies and leaders need a road map to help them boost employee engagement levels. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps employers implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing them to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity and creativity.
Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you foster employee engagement, a concept that furthers an organization's interests through ensuring that employees remain involved in, committed to, and fulfilled by their work. It covers: practical steps to boost employee engagement with your company or team; how to engage different generations of employees; the keys to reduce voluntary employee turnover; practical tools to help retain and engage your employees; processes that will boost employee retention and productivity; hiring the best fits from the start; and much more.
- Helps you recognize and understand the impact of positive employee engagement
- Helps you attract and retain the best employees
Employee Engagement For Dummies is for business leaders at all levels who are looking to better engage their employees and increase morale and productivity.
About the Author
Bob Kelleher is the founder of The Employee Engagement Group, a global consulting firm that works with leadership teams to implement best-in-class leadership and employee engagement programs. He is the author of Louder Than Words and Creativeship, as well as a thought leader, keynote speaker, and consultant.
Table of Contents
Foreword xiiiIntroduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Employee Engagement 5
Chapter 1: Basic Training: Employee Engagement Basics 7
Chapter 2: The Hard Sell: Making a Business Case for Employee Engagement 15
Chapter 3: Engagement Gauges: Finding Your Employee Engagement Baseline 31
Chapter 4: Motivation Nation: Engagement and Motivation 47
Chapter 5: Talk to Me! The Importance of Communication 59
Part II: Strategies for Driving Engagement 89
Chapter 6: Winning Their Hearts and Minds: Driving Engagement with a Sense of Purpose 91
Chapter 7: People Who Lead People: Engaging Employees through Leadership 105
Chapter 8: Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation: Driving Engagement across Generations 121
Chapter 9: Go, Team! Driving Engagement through Team Development 139
Chapter 10: Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl: Driving Engagement through Branding 163
Chapter 11: Game On! Driving Engagement with Gamification 177
Part III: Selecting the Right Employees to Increase Engagement 189
Chapter 12: You’re Hired! Hiring for Engagement 191
Chapter 13: Why Do You Want to Work Here? Interviewing Job Candidates 217
Chapter 14: All Aboard! Onboarding Techniques to Foster Engagement 235
Part IV: Measuring and Recognizing Engagement 245
Chapter 15: Measure Up: Measuring Performance and Engagement 247
Chapter 16: Goal! Setting Performance Goals and Conducting Performance Appraisals 261
Chapter 17: You Win! Rewards and Recognition 281
Chapter 18: Help Me! Helping Struggling Employees 297
Part IV: The Part of Tens 311
Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Engage New Hires 313
Chapter 20: Ten (Or So) Additional Employee Engagement Resources 319
Chapter 21: Ten Ways Engaged Employees Help Your Bottom Line 325
Index 331