Engagement Weekly: Bringing Out the Best in Employees

Learn about the latest in employee engagement within various industries. This week’s influential authors look at bringing out the best in your employees, fixing the problem of boredom at work, and how to better use technology in engagement.

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1. What Happened to Engagement? Here’s Why Employees Are Bored at Work

Entrepreneur.com – As a manager you need to find out what employees want to learn, and then align them with special tasks that will support their specific interests. Read More

2. How to Use Gamification to Improve Employee Engagement

ContentLoop – Gamification has already caught on with consumers; here’s how you can implement it in the workplace. Read More

3. 3 Ways Giving Thanks Drives Growth

The One Brief – “Recognition and feeling appreciated is not only a factor in employee engagement… [I]t also impacts how an individual and the overall team performs.” Read More

4. The Employee Engagement Hoax? What Every HR Professional Needs to Know

The Guardian –  There is no hoax, employee engagement is just as relevant as ever, but perhaps a slightly different approach is needed. Read More

5. Does Your Leadership Bring Out the Best in Those You Lead?

TanveerNaseer.com – In order to bring out the best in people, you need to make them actually care about what they are doing. Read More

6. Purpose or Engagement? Is One Better Than the Other?

TalentCulture – If you want to improve your employee engagement, you need to start by defining your company’s purpose—better engagement can then follow. Read More

7. How to Master Employee Engagement on a Budget

Salesforce – More often than not, the best ways to improve engagement won’t cost you a penny. Read More

8. The Tension Between Technology and Engagement in the Workplace

Forbes – When employees have better tech in their personal lives than at work, it can cause conflict. Employers should try to level the playing field. Read More

9. When Winning Feels Like Losing: Why Great Employees Hate Performance Evaluations

Inc.com – Ever given an employee a great performance review, only to have them walk away unhappy? Here’s how to avoid that. Read More

10. Revitalize Your Intranet for Higher Employee Engagement

CMS Wire – Here are some actionable ways in which employers have changed up their intranets in order to increase employee engagement. Read More