As we work with customers, partners, and stakeholders, we continually discover insights that highlight the importance of unifying the employee experience and implementing a culture of engagement, recognition and workplace pride.
Suppose the boss tells employees they need to work as a team, but rewards individuals based on their personal success. That, argues behavioral economist Dr. Uri Gneezy, is a mixed signal that results in a poor incentive. “Incentives send a signal,” says Gneezy, “and your objective is to make sure this signal is aligned with your goals.”
Take a deeper dive into instilling workplace pride, dual promotion, and peer-to-peer recognition. Paired with the right employee recognition solution, an engagement strategy relying on these concepts will take your workplace programs to the next level.
Through speaking with experts from around the world and digging into the research, Chris Bailey, Productivity Expert and International Bestselling Author, discovered that drawing on calm to overcome burnout and anxiety helps build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day. More remarkably, the pursuit of calm leads us to become more engaged, focused, and deliberate — while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives.
Pride is a major component of the employee experience and can be associated with tapping into emotions such as: Inspiration, Accomplishment, Ambition, Teamwork and Purpose. Dr. Jessica Tracy, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, enlightens us about how pride can be harnessed and used in a mutually positive employee / employee relationship.
Not that long ago, says employee engagement expert Rick Garlick, the biggest question he faced was, “How can I better engage employees for the purpose of driving my customer satisfaction forward?” Not anymore. “That’s been replaced by the question, ‘How do I retain my employees?’” he said. “How do I retain my best talent and attract top talent when it seems it’s so hard to do these days?”
Stop playing defense and create a stronger offensive in driving your employee retention strategy! Join Dr. Bob Nelson, the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, engagement and retention and Dr. Rick Garlick, a leading employee engagement researcher & consultant, in this live presentation as they discuss how companies can be more proactive about retaining staff during the current market challenges.
A large healthcare system that chose to remain anonymous partnered with WorkProud, an employee engagement company, to pair recognition and turnover data over a 3 ½-year period, contrasting the employee retention rate among people that received at least a minimal amount of formal recognition to employees who received no recognition. The analysis further explored turnover and recognition among the hospital nursing staff in greater detail.
Every month, we share news, knowledge, and insight into what we believe is a pretty simple proposition: If you are “proud of your work and proud of your company,” you are more engaged, more productive, and more likely to stay with your company for the long haul.
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