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How to Engage Employees in Recruiting Efforts
Engaged employees are your best recruiters. They care about the company and want great co-workers. Learn how to engage employees in recruiting.
The Top 9 Benefits of Employee Engagement
We've collected the top 9 most materially impactful benefits of employee engagement. You know it's good for people. Now find out why it's good for business.
Software Development Success Twin Sun's Blog
There is a wide spectrum of people looking to develop an app, all with varying levels of knowledge and experience in software development. If someone has prepared well, they may be able to ask some simple questions about hosting or code ownership during their search; but for a lot of people, they don't know where to begin.
Should the Unemployment Rate Impact Your Employee Engagement Efforts?
We're now seeing jobless rates in America that haven't been this low in decades. But what does that mean for your employee engagement efforts? As an employer, should employee engagement have a higher or lower priority as the unemployment rate drops?
State Your Beliefs
Hearing from one's leader about what he or she believes can have a powerful impact on morale and motivation. State your beliefs to reinforce what you feel is important to your team.
What Should You Do with Disengaged Employees?
Have you ever had someone on your team that seems completely unmotivated? Disengaged employees are disengaged for a reason. Learn how people become disengaged at work and how you can help them get back on track.
Provide Context, Not Control
Provide the information (the context) to a team or team member in order to allow them to make their own decision about how to respond to a situation rather than simply telling them what to do (asserting managerial control).
What is the Employee Engagement Quadrant?
The Employee Engagement Quadrant (EEQ) shows you how your employees think you're doing, and how much they care about their own engagement. Find out who is seeking greater engagement and how you can help with the Insight employee engagement platform.
Let Them Think a Minute
Give people time to think before giving you a response to a big decision. Requests for assistance, or other changes in their expectations often require time to process. Let them think for a moment before forming their response.
Give Socratic Guidance
People like being able to solve their own problems. When they come to you with unsolved problems, it is an opportunity to help them become better at solving their problems themselves. Offer Socratic guidance instead of answers.