Employee Engagement; Why it sounds simple but remains stubborn!

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FREE CPD NETWORKING EVENT INVITATION

22 September 2016

Manchester Free Trade Hall — Radisson Blu (5.30 - 7.30pm)

Approximately 70% remain disengaged in work.  Despite efforts and interest in engagement, this figure remains stubborn.  The UK has amongst the lowest engagement levels in Europe and wider. 

Only by understanding Employee Engagement intricacies can organisations begin to gain the benefits it promises.

Employee Engagement seems the holy grail of organisational development and human capital.  How do you know you are getting it right, and when you’ve achieved it, or not?

This even is aimed at senior HR and OD Professionals with an interest in untangling the hype from the evidence about what works.

A number of speakers from the field of Employee Engagement will provide clarity on doing engagement meaningfully.  They will introduce concepts that challenge orthodoxies of how it is measured.

From applied work with a range of organisations and industries they will provide new insights on leading for engagement.

You are invited to this event.  A drinks reception at this historical central Manchester venue.  You will have an opportunity to build CPD relevant to senior leaders, update on this topic and network with peers at a similar level to you.

Get some great free hints and tips guides to take away.

Places are limited.  Book your place by emailing:  contact@prismworkpsychology.com

 

 


 

Job Design - What you need; what they need?...

Professor Katie Truss, University of Kent Angela Baron, Independent HR Consultant and colleagues have produced this fabulous white paper on designing jobs so that employees are likely to be engaged.  Most employers design the job they need doing – however, some time considering the motivational factors for the likely post-holder will determine whether they are initially attracted and stay once selected.  Designing engaging jobs with a new mindset is cirtical to future organisational effectiveness. See the linked PDF for more info - Engage For Success

Flourish

Martin Seligman brings an exceptionally well researched and informed set of views to the relationships between well-being, resilience and happiness.  Applying the Positive Psychology perspective he has become famous for, the reader can see how creating an engaged workforce with resilience, happiness and wellness is not only good for individuals its good business sense too.

Becoming Irresistable; A new model for employee engagement

In this recent article Josh Bersin from Deloitte University argues for a new model of engagement.  He highlights some of the emerging challenges in engaging employees, how we measure and create actions to improve engagement and outlines his model for a ‘simply irresistible organisation’. -- http://dupress.com/articles/employee-engagement-strategies/