What Senior Executives Should Know About Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a topic that can cause a lot of angst among leadership and employees alike. It's unfortunate because it doesn't have to be that way. We need to start by being honest about it.

As a senior executive and/or business leader you'll never have a team of dedicated employees who are willing to walk through fire for you until and unless you're able to connect with them in a way that ignites what's deeply important to them. And this has never been more important than it is today.

Frankly, there are some career crippling blind spots developing as a result of new business challenges brought on by rapid change.

We know we can't approach new challenges with outdated thinking so we decided to try something new.

Rather than retreat to the comfort or our own respective silos (which happens way to often), we decided to do the opposite and spice things up with a more collaborative approach.

The goal in creating Premier Rapport Hangouts is to bring together field experts in the areas of Leadership, HR and Corporate Wellness to have open dialogue in a relaxed environment about how we all begin to navigate what's next.

The Employee Engagement Hangout is the first in this series. In this brief transcript of the Premier Rapport Google Hangout: Employee Engagement, you'll find valuable insights that you can take back to implement in your own business and for your own team today.

Here are a few of the hot talking points...

1. Are employee empowerment & employee engagement the same thing or not?

2. Are interpersonal skills eroding because of technology?

3. What happens to your company culture when you have motivated employees who become frustrated?

4. How do generational gaps REALLY impact your business?

....and a lot more.

According to the sources mentioned during the roundtable, 7 out of 10 employees are totally checked out and are actively considering leaving your organization and a lot of times it's your top tier talent.

If that hasn't been clear to you up until now that could mean one of two things...

Either you have an amazing company culture that continually attracts, keeps & grows top tier talent

or

it's much worse than you actually think it is and you may have a silent mutiny taking place right now that's going to have a very real impact on the bottom line.

If that sounds extreme I apologize, but I'd rather tell it like it is than contribute to the illusion of engagement.

It's actually kind of scary to think about how many damaging assumptions we make as leaders.

None of us can say we're totally innocent in that regard. This eBook is for you.

So, how about it?

Do you ever feel like you have blind spots? Did you find yourself saying "possibly" to that question?

It's time to take an honest look. We really don't want you to miss this because together we're working towards mastering the soft skills of high performance leadership and we're going to have A LOT of fun doing it!!

What questions, comments and insights do you have to share about Employee Engagement? This isn't intended to be a one way dialogue as evidenced in the format. It's also not intended to stay be restricted to the confines of an eBook.

Please do share your insights about Employee Engagement with the community after reading it so we can all get better together.

Thank you!