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How to make your L&D strategy more responsive and relevant
Editor’s note: According to research from Towards Maturity, fostering conversation and connection is key to developing more relevant and responsive learning.
Browsing: engagement
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Engaging learners, combatting learning fatigue
Editor’s note: Robin Hoyle makes some good points about setting expectations around learning programmes as well as thinking about how the overall programme can work in a way that is useful for participants (and their managers).
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‘Get on the wavelength of your staff’
Editor’s note: There’s a good message here for anyone trying to get colleagues on board with new ways of doing things. It is: understand what is exciting to them about the new ways of doing things and sell that concept. I guess some would call it ‘engagement’.
Video of the week: An infographic exploration of video engagement
Useful data on the scale of video usage online and the power of video in…
Infographic of the week: The manager’s role in engaging employees
This infographic outlines how managers can get the best from their teams. The Manager’s Role…
Whose job is leadership, anyway?
Editor’s note: Dan Pontefract looks at the issue of employee engagement through the lens of leadership. It is not a pretty picture, according to the research he cites.
Employee engagement: beyond workplace psychosis 2.0
Editor’s note: ‘In order to get more from their employees and contractors, in order to re-engage them, organizations must, simply, give them more. Not as employees, but as human beings.’ A great post on engagement and why organisations need to treat colleagues as humans.
Which is the real problem: employee disengagement or the way we view it?
Editor’s note: To quote from the article: ‘When leaders, managers and employees ALL adequately commit and employees take the time to not only find a place to work, but rather find their place with work, we’ll see quantifiable change.’ A useful opinion on engagement from the employee perspective.
From heart rates to surveys: How to keep workers happy
Editor’s note: Employee surveys reinvented. Now there is no reason not to know how your colleagues feel.
Are you creating engaged or entitled employees?
Editor’s note: Empowered workers whose activities are aligned with the business will also be your most engaged employees . . .
The vision: 5. Learning and development that is engaging
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd continues his series on transforming L&D – in this article he looks at how to make it engaging.
Do SMEs need to ‘get’ engagement?
Editor’s note: Is employee engagement something SMEs understand or actually need?
Your least engaged employees might be your top performers
Editor’s note: The wonders of data analytics. Match engagement data with appraisal data and what do you find? The worst performing employees are the most engaged.
Engagement is a buzzword all should promote
Editor’s note: Former Asda CEO Archie Norman on how his exec team turned around the ailing supermarket and what ‘engagement’ can look like.
If engagement is left as a purely HR initiative, it will remain on the sidelines
Editor’s note: A look at who should be responsible for employee engagement in the organisation.