Employee Engagement Resources

Want to Engage Employees? Change the Culture? Reinvent the Organization?   Do it right with “Employee Engagement for Change”, Exclusively from HumaNext!   3-in-1 Program: The Engagement Process; Communication Strategies; Training Workshop

The Six Principles of Employee Engagement for Change  1- People Are Not Assets or Resources o   In its essence, Employee Engagement is a “People-First” way of working and managing. It must not be viewed as a process to achieve some financial gains or goals for the organization. Turning the process away from a focus on people-first will ensure failure. o   People are not “assets” or “resources” the organization owns or manages. People are the organization. The Organization is nothing but people. People manage the organization. The organization does not manage people. o   This qualitative shift in the way we view the organization and the people who manage it is necessary for the success of any employee engagement initiative. Change is about people, not process, technology, or numbers. Financial results do not engage people. Engaged people achieve financial results, and every other worthwhile value for the organization.  2- We must become the change we want to see in the world This is what Gandhi, the great leader of India’s independence, said. Our “Employee Engagement for Change” Program puts this powerful concept to work by asking people to become the change they are talking about. People are asked to take a pledge to refrain from three negative behaviors (complaining, criticizing, and gossiping) in the first three weeks of the program. After experiencing the power of change first-hand in themselves, people then move to make the changes needed in their workplace.  3- Change Is Positive and Carries Its Own Rewards ·        Employees do not resist change. They resist the way some in management try to change them. Employees embrace the change that they participate in making. The “Employee Engagement for Change” Program is designed to make organizational change a positive and exciting process. It integrates fun and camaraderie in every aspect and every step of the process. People don’t have to be dragged to participate. They ask for it and invite others to join in. There is nothing as powerful and meaningful for people as the feeling that they are the ones in control of their own change and of the changes they create for the organization. 4- Change is Social Our “Employee Engagement for Change” methodology leverages the powerful human need for belonging, socializing, and community. The program enables participants to think, behave, and create change together.                                                                                                                                                This approach accelerates the change process as it makes it more in harmony with people’s need for social interaction. The process of effecting change together creates the strongest bonding between team members and dramatically heightens morale and employee engagement. 5- Work Outside the Box with a Bias for Action The “Employee Engagement for Change” Program puts creativity in the change process: The activities and exercises we use as part of the Change Program are designed to push participants beyond their comfort zone of traditional thinking and business-as-usual limitations. We invite participants to think and work outside the box. And they invariably do. In the “Employee Engagement for Change” Program, we have a bias for action. We don’t submerge people in weeks and weeks of writing a detailed "strategic plan" that ends up collecting dust on executives' desks. We involve people to quickly experience the power of change first in themselves, in their own behavior. People then move, with their just acquired self-confidence and sense of success, to confront the aspects of the business that need to be changed. They learn on the job. They gain from experience. They grow and achieve dramatic results. 6- There Are No Ordinary People The "Employee Engagement for Change" Program is guided by the assumption that there are no ordinary people. We believe that each person has the potential to achieve extraordinary accomplishments and is only waiting for the opportunity and condition that makes this possible. Our change process provides people with such opportunity, and they jump right in to participate. Because "Employee Engagement for Change" is people-based and is designed to touch people’s hearts and minds, the rewards people receive from it are intrinsic, personal, and powerful. There is nothing as powerful and meaningful for people as the feeling that they are the ones in control of their own change and of the changes they create for the organization. Our Model Delivers Dramatic Results in a Short Time Unlike traditional employee engagement and corporate culture change initiatives that require significant investment in money, time, and efforts and often end up with very little to show for it, our Employee Engagement for Change Program is simple yet powerful. Our Model is tested and is based on the results of available research. The complete “Employee Engagement for Change” Program comes with a step-by-step Leader's Guide , PowerPoint slides covering all key points, and a reproducible Participant Workbook for an unlimited number of users. The program will show you: Why the employee engagement for culture change approach is so exciting Why it produces dramatic results in a short period of time Why many initiatives fail and how to do your right How to communicate the idea to generate support How to get a large number of colleagues excited about the initiative How to extend this culture-change effort to support other change initiatives in the organization What training you need to offer to support the initiative How to help managers communicate the initiative How to create the vision and values that inspire employees A Ready-to-Launch Employee Engagement Initiative for Personal and Organizational Change At last: Off-the-Shelf Culture Change Program that Stands on its Own or Supports your Change Initiative. Change 3 Things in 3 Weeks! Or 3 Months! It’s that Simple! It’s that Powerful! Most organizational and culture change programs fail. Yours don’t have to. Typically, change initiatives fail because they focus on complex processes and number crunching. In the process, they lose the people who make the change happens, wasting time, efforts, and resources. Now HumaNext is offering a program that engages employees to play a vital role in the culture change process. It is called “Employee Engagement for Change” Program. In the “Employee Engagement for Change” Program, we recommend that you start your employee engagement or organizational change effort with a personal engagement and change drive that engages people’s hearts and minds for change. In the Heart & Mind 4 Change drive employees take a pledge: to refrain from doing three specific things for 3 weeks, the period usually needed for forming a new habit. This Simple Yet Powerful “Heart & Mind 4 Change” Concept Inspires People to Change Attitude, Behavior and Culture You may choose to start the “Employee Engagement for Change” Program with a “Heart & Mind 4 Change” drive that asks employees to put their hearts and minds into refraining from doing three things and replace them with their positive opposites. The Heart & Mind 4 Change” drive (or campaign) inspires employees to adopt three behavior-altering values, expressed as: Change Is Productive: From Complaining to Creating Change Is Positive: From Criticizing to Recognizing and Coaching Change Is Powerful : From Confronting to Collaborating You May Ask People to Wear Wristbands as Visible Reminders The Heart & Mind 4 Change drive invites people to wear wristbands that carry the message: “Heart & Mind 4 Change” – or an alternative message that reflects your initiative - as a reminder of their pledge and commitment to change. If they catch themselves doing one of the things they pledged to stop doing, they’re supposed to take off the band, switch it to the opposite wrist and start counting the days from scratch. We offer the Heart & Mind 4 Change wristbands separately if you want to buy them. Take the initiative. Create excitement. Spread positive attitude and constructive communication throughout the organization. Change the culture of work. Why Start Your Culture Change Effort with the Heart & Mind 4 Change Drive There are many advantages to starting your culture change process with the “Heart & Mind 4 Change” approach: It will quickly attract the attention of everyone in your organization. It has a very positive message. It is a simple idea with powerful impact. People can relate to it and find it interesting. Bosses find it helpful so they will support it. It takes only three weeks to complete the first cycle, after which you can repeat the process or take on other challenging initiatives. After the success of your Heart & Mind 4 Change campaign, and the attention and excitement it generates, you can start taking on other initiatives that help your organization achieve positive results while helping people grow and experience work in a totally new way. Creating Communication that Inspires and Leads Our model covers the steps, tools, messages, and media you will need to orchestrate an effective communication campaign to launch and support the employee engagement for change process: The communication campaign: Messages, Media, Audience The fundamental shift in the role of communicators that will be required to effectively communicate the engagement for change initiative. How to lead the process of creating and articulating vision and values for the initiative Use of Social Media to support engagement: Wikis, blogs, Twitter, social sites, others What managers need to know and do to inspire and communicate employee engagement for change How best to communicate what’s happening Get a Free Sample Package Before ordering Employee Engagement for Change – an electronic product that cannot be returned – please download and preview our Sample Package.       Download from here: http://humanext.com/downloads/Sample-Employee-_Engage-_for_Ch-08-10-29.doc Just Published and Already a Best Seller: Order Today Our program has already become a Best Seller when we offered it on a pre-publication basis. Join organizations around the world that are using it today. Order the complete "Employee Engagement for Change Program" with Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Slides, Reproducible Participant Workbook. Free Download: Before ordering this electronic non-returnable product, get a free sample download here: http://humanext.com/downloads/Sample-Employee-_Engage-_for_Ch-08-10-29.doc  Regular price is $495. Save $100- Order it now for $395.00 Get Certified to Deliver Employee Engagement for Change and More Now you can get certified online to deliver Employee Engagement for Change plus Creativity and Innovation at Work to your internal or external customers without having to travel to New York. It’s a great opportunity to start or expand your training business, supported by HumaNext, one of America’s most innovative training companies. Visit: http://www.humanext.com/humanext-seminars.html 50 Activities for Employee Engagement Getting employees engaged is not easy to do. Nor is it something you should undertake unless you’re in it for the long haul. This collection of skill-building activities will help you understand what employee engagement really means, how it can help your organization and how to create and maintain an engaged workforce. Managers, supervisors and even engaged employees will gain the perspective and insight necessary to make this exciting cultural transition successfully. Are you just beginning your engagement journey? You’ll find activities to help you define employee engagement, measure the current level of engagement in your organization and understand critical underlying principles. Are you interested in sustaining and growing employee engagement? Move on to the activities on overcoming obstacles, motivating engaged employees, how world famous leaders lead engagement and other advanced topics. The activities are organized into six, easy-to-reference sections: · Understanding employee engagement · Getting started to engage employees · Leading employee engagement · Measuring employee engagement · Creating an engaged workplace · Employee engagement communications Each of these fun and easy-to-use employee activities focuses on a different aspect of employee engagement and can be completed in 30-45 minutes. Each activity includes the purpose, description, time guidelines, resources, presentation instructions, debriefing guidelines and a handout. Order for $149.95 This Is What Engagement Does to You What does Employee engagement mean to you? How does it show up at your organization? How do engaged employees behave? What do they do? What do they say? Send your thoughts to: info@humanext.com   The Three Workers Story "What are you doing?" A passerby asked of three workers working on a building under construction. The first worker, looking tired and drained, replied, "I'm just cutting stone." The second worker, looking resigned to his ordeal, answered, "I’m just making a living. I have to put food on the table everyday for my family." The third worker, who was singing, looked up to the sky and shouted, "I'm building a cathedral!" Are you just cutting stone at work? Is that why you're often drained of energy and void of enthusiasm? Are you just trying to make a living? Is that why you find no excitement or larger meaning in what you do? Or are you building or doing something great, and in the process getting consumed by the passion and promise of doing something bigger than yourself? This simple story demonstrates the meaning of employee engagement and its effect on attitude and performance. It also shows the importance of committing to an inspiring vision and the power of purpose. This is one of the stories we offer in our “Employee Engagement for Change” program as a way to communicate the power of employee engagement in the organization. Read more about the program on this page.   All the Techniques, Tools, and Templates You Need The “Employee Engagement for Change” Program comes complete with detailed, step-by-step change process, techniques, tools, and templates. You will have in one place all the tools and documents you need to design, communicate, and initiate the change program, engage and train employees to make it happen.   Training Is Built-In The “Employee Engagement for Change” Program includes everything you need to present, orient, and train your team, or the entire organization, on the change process. You will be able to present the key ideas behind the program, explain the step-by-step implementation process, and deliver the training needed. The program includes a complete workshop with a Leader's Guide that contains step by step facilitation and activities instructions; a set of PowerPoint slides presenting the key learning points, and a reproducible Participant Workbook you can duplicate and distribute to an unlimited number of participants. The Expertise Behind the Employee Engagement for Change Program The “Employee Engagement for Change” Program is developed by Francois Basili, president and founder of HumaNext, an innovative American company offering a vast range of training and employee communication products and services. Basili has designed, initiated, and lead dramatically successful organizational change programs involving thousands of employees in the US and abroad. He has put his vast, twenty plus years of experience in the field - and the vital lessons of what works and what doesn’t - in developing the processes and tools of this program. Basili has developed several best-selling training programs including Critical Conversations, Creativity and Innovation at Work, Applying Emotional Intelligence at Work, Diversity and Cultural Competency, Relation-Shifts for Team Transformation, and others. Basili’s programs have been used by leading American and world organizations including Ford / Dell / ADP / Bristol –Myers-Squibb / Pfizer / General Dynamics/ National Instruments / Pacific Corp. / Safeway / Pearson Ed / Computer Associates / Mayo Clinic / UN, World Bank, and many others.