Companies might place a high value on employee engagement, but that doesn’t mean they’re doing it right. Here's 8 tips to drive success and maximize employee potential.

1. Eight Tips for Successful
Employee Engagement
From the whitepaper “Eight decisive success factors for an
employee engagement program.”

2. Companies might place a high value on employee engagement
but that doesn’t mean they’re doing it right.
Here are 8 things to strive for when designing your employee
engagement program to drive success and maximize employee
potential.

3. Survey content driven by corporate
strategy
Engage internal stakeholders early and often not only to align
all your actions with corporate strategy, but also to establish
surveys as a core part of that strategy.
Tip #1

4. High degree of commitment from
senior management
To drive buy-in across the organization, ask leadership to
demonstrate support and interest in the program by regularly
talking about it in meetings, town hall gatherings, and all
communications out to employees.
Tip #2

5. Continual communication about the
engagement program
Frequent updates on implementation or actions following
surveys is a great way to ensure increased participation in the
program, especially between survey cycles.
Tip #3

6. Dialogue-based involvement of
employees in the follow-up process
Make sure employees have a voice in the follow-up process.
Consult with them closely by developing ideas together on
how to approach and work with the results.
Tip #4

7. Involvement of an internal data
protection officer
If you want employees to participate in an engagement
program, they must know that their personal information and
their responses stay private and confidential.
Tip #5
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8. Conscious resource planning within
the engagement program project team
For the engagement program to take off, you must have a
dedicated team devoted to it. Making people aware of that
commitment will also help with buy-in across the org.
Tip #6

9. Structured process to support less
successful teams
It’s not enough to identify under-performing teams – you need
a plan in place to help them improve. This could include local
support teams or monthly best-practice calls.
Tip #7

10. Communication specially tailored to
internal stakeholders
Communications and materials targeted at certain groups,
such as post-survey action plans for management, will
increase the effectiveness and success of the entire program.
Tip #8

11. ibm.com/employeevoice
If you’d like to learn more about building a successful program
and positioning HR as a strategic partner within the organization,
read the whitepaper “Eight decisive success factors for an
employee engagement program.”
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