Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement

Engage & Inspire

Presented by your Human Resource Team:Kimberly Baker, John Dadswell & Glen Vanvorst

Human Resources encompass many responsibilities within an organization. The key to an organizations success involves happy and healthy employees. We are going to focus on one HR and that is employee engagement. Employee engagement is critical because when employees are engaged, production levels are increased, morale is positive and employee retention is easily accomplished. We will review steps that HR and management can take to ensure they are truly engaging their employees.

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Engage and InspireCreate an Environment in Which Employees do their Best WorkInfluence and Promote a Positive Work/Life BalanceFoster a Sense of Energy, Ownership and Personal Commitment to WorkAdapt your Approach to Motivate Employees to Improve their Well-Being (Wellness).Inspire Action without Relying Solely on PowerRecognize and Reward Significant Achievements

Employee Engagement

In order to enhance and maintain employee engagement, we must first understand the concept of engagement. Employee engagement is often mistaken for employee satisfaction. Employees can be satisfied with their job and environment, but to know if an employee is truly engaged requires leadership performance to be scientifically measured, credibly defined and diligent. Engagement from a leadership perspective entails leading people by enabling them to perform their duties to the best of their ability and ensure continuous high performance and business success. Engagement from an employee perspective is in their emotional and attitudinal performance which is developed from their experiences and often controlled by their management team.

When youre a leader, you cannot be passive, you must get involved. Leaders have the privilege of opening up their employees horizons, inspiring them to dream bigger dreams and help them utilize all their talents.

This slide outlines the best practices for a leader who wants to ensure their employees are engaged. All of these areas are important, because at work, people want more from their jobs than just going through the motions. Employees want their work to matter.

We will focus on three key areas: Influencing a Positive Work/Life BalanceMotivate Employees to Improve their Well-BeingRecognizing/Rewarding your Employees Significant Achievements

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Let Go of the Work/Life Balance NotionPurpose and Passion

Understand your Work/Life BlendReflect on the Past Year

Identify your Work/Life SeasonsTo Everything There is a Season

Work/Life Balance

A perfect balance between the time that is spent at work and the time that is spent at home is an impractical concept. Constantly working to achieve a balance between work and home will leave an individual feeling frustrated because that individual is missing purpose and passion. When an individual has purpose and passion, they are able to find happiness in whatever it is they are doing.

When reflecting on a work/life balance, look at the big picture. Do not focus on each individual day, instead focus on the past six months to a year. Think about how much time was spent at work and how much time was spent at home with the family. When reflecting over the big picture, consider these questions.

How much quality time has been spent with family/friends?How much extra time has been spent at work?Are their times when the job requires more attention?Are their times when the family requires more attention?

There is a saying, To everything there is a season. That saying is particularly true about businesses. Most businesses have a slow season and a busy season. During the slow season is when vacations should be planned with family and friends. Try to spend as much time with family and friends as possible because during the busy season work will require more attention.

As with business, family life has seasons also. During these times more attention to the family life will be required. These times can include, the birth of a child, marriage and the beginning of a new school year. These are the times that family time must come first. Be sure to plan work around these events and make up for any lost time at work when you return

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Engage Yourself at WorkFully Commit, Be Happy

Work/Life Balance

Build a Hard-Work Bank AccountWork Harder to Play Longer

Engage Yourself at HomeFocus on the Family

To achieve a work/life balance, remember these three tips:

Build a Hard-Work Bank Account at work. Be the hardest working employee at your company. Work the longer hours to meet deadlines and do it with a smile. Give 100% everyday so when time is needed away from the office to spend with family, employers are more likely to understand and allow the time away from the office.

When at work, BE at work. Focus on the job at hand and fully commit to being the hardest working employee. When an employee focuses on the job, time flies. Do not stare at the clock and hope for the hour hand to move faster.

When at home, BE at home. Focus on the family and put down the phone. Avoid taking work home. Do not check e-mails. Do not think about what is needed to be done at work. Have a Family Game Night and enjoy the time away from the office and just relax with your family.

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Meditation on the GoRepetition of WordsMini-Relaxation1 Minute to 10 MinutesGratitude JournalReflectionWorry BoxLet Go

Relieving Stress

Trying to balance work and life can be almost impossible when an individual cannot relieve stress. Stress can be defined as what an individual feels when they are responsible for more than what they are accustomed to. Relieving or reducing stress can be a difficult task for anyone. Fortunately, there are several easy ways to help reduce stress.

Meditation is a great and easy way to reduce stress. Silently repeating a peaceful word, a personal mantra or just listening to a peaceful sound for a few minutes daily can substantially diminish an individuals stress level. Stress levels can also be reduced by engaging in a mini-relaxation session.

We have some techniques you can try at home or work that truly take only minutes to perform:One Minute Place your hand beneath your naval and gently breath. Breath in slowly and pause for three seconds. Repeat for one minute.Two Minutes Count down slowly from 10 to zero while taking a deep breath after each number. Three Minutes While sitting down take a few minutes to check your body for any tension. Relax every muscle and breath in and out slowly.Five Minutes Conduct a self-massage on any tight muscles on the neck and shoulder area. Apply tiny circles with to the base of the skull. Slowly massage the scalp area.Ten Minutes Sit in a quiet room and imagine yourself in a place that is calm and soothing. Think of vivid experiences in this place.

A gratitude journal is a journal in which an individual would write down any positive experiences, feelings, and relationships in their life. By keeping a journal by the bed, an individual should take five to ten minutes to write down and reflect on the good things that happened that day. Stress can be relieved by reflecting on these positive journal entries.

A worry box is where an individual writes down their worries on a sheet of paper and puts them away in a box. This a symbolic way of Letting Go of your worries. Write down any concerns from the day and drop them in the box. After a while the box can be emptied and the papers can either be read or thrown away. Some individuals benefit from reading their previous worries as they will notice that the worries never came to fruition.

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According to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese (BMI