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Benefits, Take the Wheel! Six Ways Your Benefits Can Drive Employee Engagement (and Retention)

employee benefits communication

Ever feel like your company is in a high-speed chase towards the elusive goal of employee engagement? Take a wrong turn and your competitors will beat you (and lure your top talent away). Go too slow and your employees will be bored, unhappy, and unproductive at work. So what’s a savvy benefits pro to do? Turns out, putting the pedal to the metal on your benefits communication strategy can help keep employees engaged and happy at work so they stick around longer. I recently presented another well-attended webinar for SHRM, sponsored by Jellyvision, called Benefits, Take the Wheel! Six Ways Your ...

The 7 Deadly Sins of Managers: What They Do to Make Good Employees Quit

Bad managers damage employee engagement

We have all witnessed it. Some really well-liked, productive employee suddenly tenders his or her resignation, or maybe just doesn’t show up for work one day. The workplace quickly becomes abuzz with rumors of why the person quit. If the rumors are accurate then the reason most often lies with the newly resigned employee’s manager. After all, there is a whole heck of a lot of truth to the old adage that “Employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers.” And here are the 7 Deadly Sins that managers commit to cause these resignations. Sadly, all of these can be ...

The Manager’s Employee Engagement Checklist

This checklist will prove useful to ensure that your managers are fully leveraging the key drivers of employee engagement. The suggestions are in order of importance and based upon a Key Driver Analysis conducted off of an employee engagement survey database. It is a best practice that managers should review this checklist every month. DOWNLOAD NOW ...

The Manager’s Employee Engagement Checklist

Gallup’s recent State of the American Workplace Study highlighted the single greatest thing you can do to increase employee engagement: hire the right managers. In fact, the study said that if you hire a manager who is disengaged, the workgroup they manage is three times more likely to be disengaged. So even if you hire the right, highly engaged managers, they still need to know, and do, the most effective things to bring their work group to higher, and hopefully best-in-class, levels of engagement. And even if they know these engagement management “to dos,” they often forget to implement them, ...