When you’re focused on containing staff costs employee engagement may be not be the first thing you think of. Yet research and experience indicate that well thought through engagement initiatives directly impact on an organization's ability to attract, retain, and motivate people to perform at their best. Each of these have clear and demonstrable bottom line impact.

Each organization will have their own experience of how engagement impacts on performance. The question we would like to address is this: what are some of the meaningful steps you can take to improve the engagement in your organization and thereby performance of your people?

This workshop will provide you with the starting blocks to think through the issue of engagement in today’s climate and how it can make a real difference in your organization.

Objectives

Understand the elements of employee engagement

Gain employee buy-in into your organizational value and strategic vision

Measure the effectiveness of your employee engagement strategy and its impact on the bottom line

Explore methods for overcoming key challenges

Create and embed a strong employee engagement culture

Program

Defining employee engagement

Models of engagement

The business case for investing in employee engagement

How do you sell the concept?

What does an engaged employee look like?

What do they expect?

What have we learnt?

Where does engagement sit as a discipline inside the organization?  

Key drivers to engagement

Overcoming the barriers in your organization

Making engagement last