Honestly Engagement Blog

One-on-One 101: A template for better conversations with your employees

When was the last time you had a frank, one-on-one conversation with your direct manager? Hopefully, it’s not hard to remember the date. While you might think that downplaying roadblocks or minimizing your concerns might impress the boss, it’s easy to forget that a manager’s #1 responsibility is to manage. That means it’s in their interest to have an honest account of what’s working, what isn’t, and what they can use their power to influence.

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Workplace Wellbeing: 50 Ideas for Healthier and Happier Employees

Successful companies are finally beginning to figure out that considering their employees as whole, complex people—as opposed to tools that perform a necessary function—is the right, moral, and profitable thing to do. Groundbreaking research into employee engagement and workplace wellbeing over the past two decades has revealed that healthy, happy employees are more productive and valuable overall. Increase the wellbeing and productivity of your employees Find out how While there is still a natural inclination in management to separate the personal and professional, in practicality, they are intertwined.

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Top 3 Company Benefits to Drive Employee Engagement

When it comes to the benefits of company perks, the recipe is usually simple. If a company has great benefits, employee engagement will rise and in turn, so will revenue. But if businesses do not offer the proper employee benefits, employee engagement can decrease resulting in lost productivity. The latter of these two scenarios ultimately costs U.S. companies $450-$550 billion annually, according to Gallup. With research to back up their initiatives, many businesses are looking to implement the right benefits to help increase company morale and, their bottom lines.

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These Three Leadership Styles Can Define a Company’s Culture

Think back to your old managers. Maybe one boss was like a strict military general who expected orders to be followed without question. Perhaps there was the boss great at being liked – but not so great at making tough decisions. Or maybe you had a manager so stingy with praise that hearing “good job” for the first time felt better than receiving a big bonus. Leadership styles vary, yet they all play a very big role in defining company culture.

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Employee Engagement: A Critical Part of Your Employer Branding Strategy

Employee engagement is the cornerstone of your employer branding strategy. If your employees are not happy and engaged, presenting your company as the employer of choice and a great place to work will be impossible. In the time of social media and company review sites such as Glassdoor, employee engagement has become the critical part of every successful employer branding strategy. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF What is employee engagement?

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18 Ways You Can Make Your Employees Feel Empowered

Are your employees able to make their own decisions about how they work? The answer to this question may have deeper implications than you think. One study surveyed 1,168 employees from 31 different foundations and found that “foundation staff members are most satisfied in their jobs when they feel empowered in their day-to-day experiences at work.” At Pepperdine University , researchers compared the performance of 40 of the most empowered companies across more than a dozen categories to S&P 500 averages, and they found there was a clear correlation between empowerment and financial success.

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Treat Talents like End Users for a better Employee Experience

You might not think of yourself as a designer. Maybe you can’t draw. Even if you’ve never won a game of Pictionary, however, you can still design experiences. In an effort to address striking employee disengagement numbers (85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work, according to Gallup), some companies are turning their methods for user and customer satisfaction inward. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF Customers, users, and employees ultimately are all people who want to meet a certain goal while they encounter barriers.

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5 Questions to Uncover Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

It can take up to 20 minutes to recover from an emotional encounter. ​​​​​ As hard as we might try to be rational operators in the workplace, our emotions seep into our everyday tasks. Businesses are ultimately made up of people, with human weaknesses and strengths. A person who can moderate their own emotions, while empathizing with the emotions of their coworkers, has an easier time letting go of feelings that aren’t productive.

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How New Hire Orientation Fuels Employee Engagement

As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a good first impression. That doesn’t just apply to meeting your partner’s parents–an employee’s first day at a new job either confirms or contradicts their preconceptions about their company. Walking through the doors of a new workplace triggers a complicated mix of feelings (anxiety, excitement, pride), and companies looking to enhance employee engagement should acknowledge this unique circumstance. Want to learn more about this topic?

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