This document discusses how agile practices can increase employee engagement. It defines employee engagement as employees being fully absorbed in and enthusiastic about their work. Agile practices empower engagement by creating collaborative environments focused on team goals rather than individual goals. This encourages team interaction and intelligence over individual goals. Servant leadership empowers teams by sharing power, helping people grow through coaching rather than control, and unleashing energy and intelligence. Agile teams experience fewer defects and safety incidents, less shrinkage and turnover when engagement is high. The document recommends agile can engage millennials and increase performance through respect, effective decision making, feedback, and building individual careers within teams.

1. Employee Engagement in Agile Practice
Syed Nazir Razik
April 12, 2016
HP Enterprise, Chennai

2. Board Member & Vice President
Vice President ,
Aerospace Industry Association
of Tamil Nadu
Social Media Strategist
Agile Mentor for ACP & Beyond

3. Agenda
What is Employee Engagement
Organizational teams and growing millennials
Agile Practices bring more team engagement
Servant Leadership and Collaborative teams
Why Agile is an emerging practice to engage millennials
Agile practices that catalyze
High performance = Better engagement
Steps forward …
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4. Employee Engagement
• Employee engagement is a
property of the relationship
between an organization and
its employees.
• An "engaged employee" is
one who is fully absorbed by
and enthusiastic about their
work and so takes positive
action to further the
organization's reputation and
interests.

5. Degrees of Employee Engagement

6. Effects of Team Engagement
• 41% fewer quality
defects
• 48% fewer safety
incidents
• 28% less shrinkage
• 65% less turnover (low-
turnover organizations)
• 25% less turnover
(high-turnover
organizations)
• 37% less absenteeism

7. Growth of Not Engaged Millennial workforce
• Traditionalist
• Baby Boomers
• Gen X
• Gen Y or Millennials

9. Growth of Millennials

10. Align
Purpose

11. Influencing factors of Millennials @ Team

12. Millennial team priorities

13. Team Culture Matters

15. Team engagement in Agile

17. Agile empowers Engagement

19. Servant Leader empowers Team
Engagement
Servant Leaders :
 Are self-aware.
 Listen.
 Share the power.
 Help other people grow.
 Coach people, not control them
 Collaborates , not dictates
 Unleash the energy and intelligence of others.
 Work to develop their foresight, so they can act, not react
 Doesn’t control team member actions but offers possibilities

20. Agile Practice empowers
High Performance
Agile Practice focus on
 Creating a collaborative
environment.
 Focus on Group goals
than individual goals
 Encouraging Team
interaction
 Team intelligence
precedes Individual

21. Engaged Team accelerates Growth

22. Engagement empowers High Performance
Teams
 Respect Each team members opinion
 Protect your team from all evil
 Effective decision making
 Measure Progress and provide feedback
 Set up clear process, checkpoints and Metrics
 Effective Team Meetings and Conflict Resolution
 Build capability and career path for each individual
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to
overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni

23. Effects of Agile (Engaged) Teams

24. Recommendation and Credits
State of Agile Report 2016
Employee Engagement Report 2015

25. Thank You !
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