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How to Maximize Employee Performance Through Employee Engagement
September 28, 2017 Angela Dunn, HRC Julie Shepard, SHRC
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The Fine Print
This presentation is for educational purposes only. TriNet provides its clients with legally compliant HR guidance and best practices. TriNet does not provide legal, tax, or accounting advice.
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Welcome!
Jacqueline Breslin Director, Human Capital Services, TriNet • Based in San Leandro, CA • 20 years experience in Human Resources • Leads a team dedicated to compliance,
workplace investigations and challenging employee relations issues
• Experience implementing and managing HR programs to include policy development, performance management, compensation, recruitment and retention, learning and development, coaching and M&A activity
Jackie BreslinTriNet
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Agenda
• Meet our presenters
• What is employee engagement?
• Why does employee engagement matter?
• The foundations of employee engagement
• Strategies to maximize performance through employee engagement
• Q&A
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Subject Matter Experts
Angela Dunn Human Resources Consultant, TriNet • Based in Las Vegas, NV • 15 years experience in Human
Resources • PHR Certified • Provides compliance and employee
relations support to the Client Services team and TriNet clients
Angela Dunn TriNet
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Subject Matter Experts
Julie Shepard Senior Human Resources Consultant,
TriNet • Based in Los Angeles, CA • 20 years progressive and leadership
experience in Human Resources • SPHR Certified • Provides compliance and employee
relations support to the Client Services team and TriNet clients
Julie Shepard TriNet
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What is Employee Engagement?
• Emotional attachment toward: ▪ Place of work
▪ Job role
▪ Position within the company
▪ Colleagues
▪ Culture
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Employees:
• Want to come to work • Enjoy work • Contribute to the company’s success
What is Employee Engagement?
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What Engagement is Not
• Happiness = Engagement • Engagement = Satisfaction
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Positive Employee Expressions
• Physical Expression – Employees use high energy when completing their work tasks
• Emotional Expression – Employees truly love what they are doing and put their heart and soul into their work tasks; they feel inspired and challenged by their work and sense the significance of it
• Cognitive Expression – Employees become fully engrossed in their work and almost lose themselves in it
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Negative Employee Expressions
• Physical Expression – Employee complains loudly to anyone that will listen that they are so tired and they really don’t want to be there.
• Emotional Expression – when assigned a task they feel why bother, it won’t make a difference.
• Cognitive Expression – Hard for the employee to meet deadlines, easily distracted, gossiping, handling personal tasks, doesn’t take their job seriously.
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The Engaged Employee’s Experience
• 97% of highly engaged employees report that someone at work encourages their development
• 98% report that they have opportunities to learn and grow
• 91% report that they feel their opinions count at work
• 98% report that their manager cares about them
Employee Engagement: How British Business Measures Up, red letter Days For Business, June 2015
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Why Employee Engagement is Important?More statistics… Employee
Engagement
45%
26%
29%
Engaged Actively Disengaged Not Engaged
Dale Carnegie Training, Igniting Workplace Enthusiasm, www.dalecarnegie.com, http://www.dalecarnegie.com/employee-engagement/engaged-employees-infographic/ (last visited__September 25, 2017
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Why is Engagement Important?
“Retention and Engagement has risen to No. 2 in the minds of business leaders, second only to the challenge of building global leadership.” -Deloitte Review 2015
Jane Young, Employee Turnover & Engagement: What You Need to Know, Best Companies, (Mar. 9, 2015, 11:25 AM), http://blog.b.co.uk/blog/employee-turnover-engagement-what-you-need-to-know.
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Employee Engagement Affects Performance
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What is the Impact of an Engaged Workforce?
insync, Impact of Employee Engagement on Profitability, www.insyncsurveys.com, http://www.insyncsurveys.com.au/resources/articles/employee-engagement/2012/11/impact-of-employee-engagement-on-profitability/ (last visited September 25, 2017.
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Foundations of Engagement
• Natural mindset of leaders • Top-down commitment • Employees trust management • A company’s values • Employees understand the “why”– how are they
contributing to a bigger picture • Employees have an opportunity to do what they
do best everyday
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Building Trust
• Recognize that building trust takes hard work and time
• Be honest and supportive
• Commit to follow through
• Model behavior that you seek
• Build in accountability
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Strategies to Maximize Performance Through Employee Engagement
• Company values translate in every interaction – hiring process, onboarding, performance review process, etc.
• Conduct behavioral interviews to understand an applicant’s values
• Robust onboarding program • Ongoing leadership development • Develop informal and formal avenues of open
communication with employees and be transparent
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Strategies to Maximize Performance Through Employee Engagement (continued)
• Care about both the personal and professional growth of your employees
• Show appreciation (rewards and recognition) • Walk the talk
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Key Take-Aways
• Employee engagement is not the same as employee satisfaction or happiness
• Employee engagement is the emotional connection to one’s company that results in discretionary effort
• Discretionary effort leads to increased performance which ultimately leads to increased profitability
• The goal is to increase the percentage of your engaged employees
• It takes a multitude of items to create a culture that drives engagement and increases performance
• The process never ends – it is continually evolving
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Next Steps
• Identify where you are now • Develop a plan of action • Act on the plan • Evaluate implemented changes • Continue building trust • Connect financial results to engagement
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Resources
1) Guidance from your TriNet Representative 2) Employee Engagement Toolkit 3) Employee Engagement Survey: ▪ Customized survey provides you with crucial data enabling
you to act quickly to effect change, improving the employee experience with a supportive work environment that fosters participation and productivity.
▪ The TriNet survey is confidential and anonymous, helping gather genuine opinions and unfiltered feedback.
Please contact your TriNet representative for more information.
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