If you are looking for employee engagement ideas, you're in the right place. It's no secret. Your employees' satisfaction level is a key factor in staff retention. With the high costs associated with your employee turnover rate, it's important to figure out your retention strategies now.Employee engagement is a widely used term, so much so that many organizations consider it cliché and don't take the concept as seriously as they should. There is a big difference between employee satisfaction and happiness. A satisfied employee shows up at work, does his or her job and leaves. On the other hand, when employees are emotionally committed to their employer, they are said to be highly engaged. Your employees are no longer working simply for a paycheck or promotion. Newer generations want to care about both their work and the organization they for which they do their job. Engaged employees bring in their full effort so that they contribute more to the organization's overall goals. Why does discretionary effort matter? Because it means that they are doing their job without being asked, lowering their need to be constantly supervised and increasing their productivity, levels of customer service, sales, profits, and goodwill. In short, employee engagement achievement is vital for employees and their employers.Face it; your best employees have the power to take their skills elsewhere. And that leaves your leadership team with an enormous challenge: winning the war for top talent! You need employee retention techniques that work. Taking an employee engagement survey is a good first step, but without followup action to connect with and engage your team, your survey efforts alone are futile. This employee disengagement trend reaches far beyond just manufacturing. The Gallup organization reports close to 71% of all staff feel unsupported, detached, or disengaged from their current employer. The impact costs US businesses more than $450 billion in lost productivity each year. In this book, you'll find many strategies to will help you experience the benefits of having an engaged workforce. Open up the book to any page and implement the ideas and strategies listed. Encourage and empower your leadership team to go beyond the engagement questionnaire. Find out what employees want to increase their satisfaction levels and then help them get it.The bad news is that disengagement levels have been about the same for companies overall since Gallup and other organizations started measuring engagement levels. The good news is we already know how to discourage top talent from leaving: keep them engaged. With an engaged workforce, employees work harder, have fewer safety incidents, and are more loyal and profitable to their company. Studies show that engaged employees have: - 50% fewer accidents- 41% fewer quality defects- 30% fewer health care costsNot surprisingly, unhappy workers return only 60% of their salary in the value they provide.With an estimated five million manufacturing jobs going unfilled by 2020, it's time to take smart steps to make sure your company isn't affected. That means creating a workplace culture that works ... based on proven results, fresh ideas and new ways of generating loyalty from your staff. Use the employee engagement strategies in this book to help your company be an employer of choice. Engagement techniques work - if you work them!
About the Author: Are you frustrated with your employees' lack of engagement, commitment, and passion? Do you wish you could connect with your team members in a meaningful way? Are you concerned that your employee engagement surveys aren't giving you the "real" story? Lisa Ryan can help. Employee engagement expert, Lisa Ryan, shares strategies that top manufacturers are using to keep their top talent from becoming someone else's. With a shrinking applicant pool, dismal engagement levels, exploding turnover costs and the high cost of retention, it's more important than ever for leaders to know how to retain the employees they worked so hard to find in the first place. Lisa shares what works - and what doesn't - and in her programs and books, you'll get takeaway ideas that you can use immediately. An award-winning speaker and author of nine books, Lisa works with her clients to develop employee engagement initiatives and strategies that keep their top talent and best customers from becoming someone else's. Her clients appreciate her real-world insight, high content message, and the actionable ideas contained in her fun, high content and energetic programs. Meeting planners love working with her. Lisa Ryan is an internationally recognized employee engagement, staff retention, and gratitude expert. Her thirteen years of manufacturing experience helps her connect with all levels of an organization. And the fact that she welds certainly doesn't hurt. Her specialties include: strengthening workplace culture, improving employee engagement, and initiating gratitude strategies ("Grategies") for personal and professional transformation. Lisa co-stars in two films with other experts including Jack Canfield of "Chicken Soup for the Soul." She is the Past-President of the National Speakers Association, Ohio Chapter and holds an MBA from Cleveland State University. Relevant Experience - Keynote, breakout or workshop speaker at more than 100 national and international conferences - Thirteen years of industrial marketing and sales experience, including seven years in the welding industry - and yes, she does weld - Best-selling author of nine books - Award-winning speaker Video Links: Demo Video: bit.ly/LisaRyanEmployeeEngagement Biz TV Show: bit.ly/LisaRyanBizTV Millennial Talk: bit.ly/LisaRyanMillennialMindset