One of the great things about the #EmployeeEngagement movement is the passion and dedication its members have to spreading knowledge. On Wednesday April 8, we ran a Twitter chat around the hashtag #GetEngaged and asked a pool of engagement experts five questions around making engagement work. Participants included real-world practitioners as well as judges and speakers from our Employee Engagement Awards and Conference taking place on June 17 in New York. These are the five most pertinent tips that came out of the hour-long chat in which we saw 1000+ tweets on the #GetEngaged hashtag.

1. 5
crowdsourced tips
from the employee
engagement community.

2. One of the great things about the employee
engagement movement is the passion and dedication
its members have to spreading knowledge.
On Wednesday April 8, we ran a Twitter chat around
the hashtag #GetEngaged and asked a pool of
engagement experts five questions around making
engagement work.

3. Participants included real-world practitioners
as well as judges and speakers from our
Employee Engagement Awards and Conference
taking place on June 17 in New York.
These are the five most pertinent tips that came
out of the hour-long chat in which we saw 1000+
tweets on the #GetEngaged hashtag.

4. Employee engagement
must be underpinned by
something more than
individual initiatives.1

5. Employee-centric companies
have purpose-driven cultures
that focus, as a core part of
the business, on developing,
recognising and motivating
staff.

6. They treat employees as the
backbone and strength of
the organization, rather than
just numbers and figures.

7. Measuring engagement is
about measuring business
performance first and
foremost.2

8. To understand the impact of
engagement, companies must
identify business metrics that
they are aiming to impact
through engagement, such as
attrition or customer
satisfaction.

9. Focusing exclusively on
specific metrics of
engagement, such as self-
reported employee happiness,
is not enough to entrench
engagement throughout the
business.

10. Wellbeing is a
foundational stage,
and an intrinsic part,
of employee engagement.3

11. Emotional connection to
the workplace requires an
individual to have a positive
sense of their own worth and
wellbeing.

12. Wellbeing must be a key part
of engagement programs to
raise the level of physical and
mental health, and educate
staff on good practice.

13. Reward must be fair or
engagement efforts will
wither and die.
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14. Pay can be a hygiene factor - it
doesn’t motivate employees
but it demotivates them if
they don’t perceive it as fair.

15. Perception of fairness is a
foundational stage to
engagement .
If employees feel they are not
remunerated fairly their ability
to emotionally connect with the
workplace will be limited.

16. Sustainable, long-term
engagement requires deep
embedding and daily
enablement.5

17. Engagement, like everything,
is subject to the law of
diminishing returns.

18. Two elements are essential to
long-term engagement:
Fully embedding it
into the way the
company does
business, and
2 Living it in
everyday actions so
that it is blatantly
obvious to everyone.
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19. 1. Employee engagement must be underpinned by something more than individual
initiatives.
2. Measuring engagement is about measuring business performance first and foremost.
3. Wellbeing is a foundational stage, and an intrinsic part, of employee engagement.
4. Reward must be fair or engagement efforts will wither and die.
5. Sustainable, long-term engagement requires deep embedding and daily enablement.
5 crowdsourced tips from the
employee engagement community.
#GetEngaged

20. Learn what it takes to go from talking about improving employee engagement to leading the market.
Throughout the day-long conference we’ll share the insights, strategies and tools from inspiring leaders and
remarkable peers to help you realize the power of engaged employees, wherever you are in your journey.
The day is focused on helping you capture ideas, tactics and next actions for you to implement when you get back to
the office.
The Employee Engagement Conference will culminate in the Employee Engagement Awards, where we put the
spotlight on you!
At our rooftop awards drinks reception we’ll recognize those companies leading the way in employee engagement
and will celebrate the people driving people-engaged organizations.
Learn more about the agenda and speakers at www.eeexcellence.com
Take the next step and #GetEngaged.
Join your peers at the Employee Engagement Conference June 17, New York.