{"id":983,"date":"2019-03-25T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inpulse.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:08:39","slug":"emotions-driving-the-employee-engagement-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thirteencreative.co.uk\/inpulse21\/emotions-driving-the-employee-engagement-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Emotions Driving the Employee Engagement Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many organisations, employee engagement\u00a0<\/span>is defined by\u00a0<\/span>one thing \u2013 the annual employee survey.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The problem with this\u00a0<\/span>approach<\/span>\u00a0is that it rarely works and can do more to disengage your team.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>It is time to modernise your employee engagement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this blog post Matt Stephens, founder of\u00a0<\/span>Inpulse<\/span>, reveals the revolution taking place around how organisations engage with their employees. Matt is a leading authority, author and public speaker on employee engagement and experience. He has worked with a wide range of organisations over the past 15 years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For many organisations, employee engagement\u00a0<\/span>is defined by\u00a0<\/span>one thing \u2013 the annual employee survey.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Typically, this involves a lengthy survey, takes months to generate results, often fails to engage employees and rarely does anything to actually drive change for the better as a result. Instead, reports are produced and simply get passed down the line and quickly forgotten.\u00a0<\/span>Does that sound familiar?\u00a0<\/span>As Aon Hewitt noted in a recent report, \u2018only 18% of employees strongly believe that their survey results will be acted on\u2019\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Engaged employees will increase your company\u2019s success<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully, the days of well-intended employee surveys that achieve nothing are\u00a0<\/span>numbered.\u00a0<\/span>Times are changing and a growing number of organisations, big and small\u00a0<\/span>recognize\u00a0<\/span>that they need to engage with their employees\u00a0<\/span>in a more\u00a0<\/span>meaningful way.<\/span>\u00a0Why? Because they understand that engaged employees can make a difference to their business and ultimately, their bottom line.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So what are organisations doing to engage with their employees in a more meaningful way?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The answer\u00a0<\/span>comes in two parts\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 first<\/span>, how to measure engagement, and\u00a0<\/span>second<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>how to react and address the\u00a0<\/span>results<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How to measure employee engagement<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Organisations\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>living, breathing,\u00a0<\/span>organic entities,\u00a0<\/span>populated with people, who whilst they may think\u00a0<\/span>they\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>rational<\/span>\u00a0creatures, are actually driven in\u00a0<\/span>many<\/span>\u00a0cases by emotions. Consequently, i<\/span>t is feeling-based personal relationships that have the greatest influence<\/span>\u00a0within organisations<\/span>, causing engaged employees to work\u00a0<\/span>more\u00a0<\/span>effectively, stay with their company<\/span>\u00a0longer<\/span>\u00a0and act as amba<\/span>ssadors for their organisation. Our emotions and how we feel determine<\/span>\u00a0what we do, which\u00a0<\/span>then affects the outcomes we achieve, so we need to measure how people are feeling to understand their level of engagement or disengagement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, with the changing demographics of the workforce,\u00a0<\/span>proliferation of technology at work,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>varied modern\u00a0<\/span>working environments,\u00a0<\/span>engagement surveys need to be more flexible<\/span>\u00a0and transparent, as well as being simple and easy to complete with a great\u00a0<\/span>user-<\/span>experience<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>In this context, s<\/span>everal features are rapidly becoming the norm<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n