Improving Employee Engagement is Both Art and Science - Start With Your Managers to Improve Engagement and Productivity

"Employees don't leave bad companies; they leave bad managers." This saying underscores a vital truth in the workplace. Gallup's State of Employee Engagement report reveals that the manager-employee connection significantly impacts engagement globally.

New workplace demands heighten the need for managers to inspire and lead effectively. Gallup reports that low employee engagement costs the global economy $8.8 trillion annually in lost productivity.

Alarmingly, only three out of ten managers feel fully engaged in their roles.

Managers juggle numerous responsibilities: organizational initiatives, customer needs, reporting performance management, and training. Yet, their most crucial task—motivating and engaging their teams requires a holistic approach. Too many organizations promote their top performers to be managers with little training and tools. This is akin to asking the top flight attendant to land the plane.

To lead effectively, managers need modern, data-driven, and robust tools, resources, and skills. Predictive Index's software and services offer a scientific, data-driven approach to aligning business strategy, results, and talent.

Research identifies four key factors impacting employee engagement:

1) Job Fit: Ensuring the right person is in the right job.

2) The Manager: Providing adequate training and tools for managers.

3) The Team: Addressing team conflict, collaboration, and communication.

4) The Culture: Fostering an engaging and productive work environment.

HR and Talent Optimization leaders often struggle to demonstrate the financial impact of investing in employee engagement and not investing in employee engagement and leadership development. To gain support, use these strategies:

1) Think like a business leader: Align HR initiatives with the company's mission, vision, and values.

2) Use data to tell your story: Show ROI and the cost of inaction using tools like the Turnover and Employee Engagement Calculator to show the impact of turnover on the company's bottom line.

Turnover Cost Calculator - Turnover Cost Calculator | The Predictive Iex (outgrow.us).

Employee Engagement Calcuator https://predictiveindex.outgrow.us/disengagement-cost

Here's how we help you"

1) Hire the right people: Using the Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment, we ensure candidates fit the job profile, reducing turnover and bad hires.

2) Inspire retention: Provide managers with tools and training to become great leaders and coaches.

3) Design for success: Our Team Dynamics and Alignment workshops align teams with the company's strategy.

4) Diagnose problems early: Our Diagnose tools, including Engagement Surveys and Pulse surveys, identify issues before they escalate.

5)Improve manager effectiveness: Our Perform solution offers AI-enabled tools for goal setting, coaching, feedback, and effective meetings.

At Advantage Consulting and Training, we specialize in talent optimization, offering data-driven solutions that bridge the gap between business strategy, outcomes, and talent management.

Our services span talent optimization, team and leadership effectiveness, sales enablement, and women leadership programs aimed at fostering a high-performance culture to hire, retain, and inspire top talent across organizations.

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