The document discusses employee engagement, distinguishing it from happiness and satisfaction, and highlights its impact on organizational performance, including increased productivity and reduced turnover. It provides a breakdown of different engagement levels within a workforce and suggests strategies for improving engagement through understanding employee needs and corporate culture. The document concludes that fostering employee engagement is not only possible but beneficial to both employees and organizations.

1. EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT
IS IT A POSSIBILITY OR A PIPE
DREAM?
Cindy Gordon CPA, CA (Canada License only) CPCC
Culture Shock Coaching, LLC
© 2014 Culture Shock Coaching, LLC

2. What Engagement is Not
 Happiness – engaged employees are
considered happy at work, however happy
employees are not necessarily engaged
 Satisfaction – a satisfied employee may show
up at work without a complaint but they won’t
likely go the extra distance for the company

3. What is Engagement?
The emotional commitment an employee has
to their organization and its goals resulting
in the use of discretionary effort

4. Organizations with high employee
engagement experience
 65% greater share-price
 26% less employee turnover
 100% more unsolicited employment
applications
 20% less absenteeism
 15% greater employee productivity
 Up to 30% greater customer satisfaction levels
(2013 survey by the Queen's School of Business - Centre for Business
Venturing (QCVB) and Aon Hewitt)

5. WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
W I I F M

6. Can you relate?

7. Putting a dollar value on the impact of
engagement on productivity
The Financial Impact

8. Categorize your workforce
 Fully engaged employees are passionate about their work and the
organization; will do whatever it takes to deliver the results; perform
beyond expectation; look for new opportunities to personally and
professional grow
 Engaged employees are solid, dependable performers; focused on
deliverables, projects and individual responsibilities; master their
responsibilities but don’t expand outside of it
 Somewhat engaged employees are selective about where they put
their energy; deliver when they have to; are masters at distracting
others; benefits they receive from the organization are the main
reasons they stay
 Disengaged employees only work when they have to; perform at
below expected levels; spread negative feedback about the
organization and leaders

9. Financial Impact
 ABC Company
20% highly engaged
35% engaged
35% somewhat engaged
10% disengaged
Annual payroll of $1,000,000
(Allocation based on Jack Welsh theory of employee engagement)

10. Financial Impact – Scenario 1
Level of
Engagement
% within
Organization
(A)
% Performance
Level
(B)
Performance Impact
(A x B)
Highly 20% 125% 25%
Engaged 35% 100% 35%
Somewhat 35% 75% 26%
Disengaged 10% 50% 5%
CURRENT PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL (C) 91%
% OF LOST PERFORMANCE (100% – C) 9%
TOTAL ANNUAL WAGES $1,000,000
VALUE OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO ENGAGEMENT $90,000

11. Implementing Employee
Engagement Strategies
 Shift of engagement level within the engaged
and someone engaged population
 20% of the 35% engaged employees become highly
engaged (shift of 7%)
 20% of the 35% somewhat engaged employees
become engaged (shift of 7%)

12. Improvement on Productivity
Level of
Engagement
% within
Organization
(A)
% Performance
Level
(B)
Performance
Impact
(A x B)
Highly 27% 125% 34%
Engaged 35% 100% 35%
Somewhat 28% 75% 21%
Disengaged 10% 50% 5%
CURRENT PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL (C) 95%
% OF LOST PERFORMANCE (100% – C) 5%
TOTAL ANNUAL WAGES AND SALARIES $1,000,000
VALUE OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO
ENGAGEMENT
$50,000
VALUE OF PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT $40,000

13. How many would be people?
Assuming -15 employees:
Scenario 1 Scenario 2
Highly engaged 3 4
Engaged 5 5
Somewhat engaged 5 4
Disengaged 2 2
Total employees 15 15

14. Creating a high engagement environment
How To….

15. Corporate culture
 Corporate culture represents the behaviors
and beliefs of what the company stands for
 The perceptions of the employees about
culture will impact their level of engagement
 “You can be the architect of your culture or you
can be the victim of it” – Len Gaby, Sleep America

16. Key Components of
Engagement
 Processes - Do the processes in your
organization enable your employees to
effectively get their work done easily?
 Tools - Does each employee have the
tools available to allow them to get their
job done in an efficient manner?
 People - How well do we know our people
and what motivates them?

17. Employee Needs
Adapted from Dr. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

18. Security and Safety
 Emotional – trust, threat of job loss, passive
aggressive behavior, immoral or illegal activity
 Physical – physical abuse, threat of injury,
limited access to premises by stranger

19. Financial Security
 Salary – wages are perceived as fair in
relation to responsibilities, peers and market
 Benefits – are benefits provided relevant to the
employee

20. Relationship and Belonging
 People don’t leave companies, they leave
bosses
 Relationships with peers vs direct boss vs
senior leader
 Type of communication – does the employee
feel heard and how does boss react to their
feedback?

21. Recognition
 Verbal and material recognition that shows
a direct acknowledgement of a person
 Organizations with sophisticated recognition
practices are 12 times more likely to have strong
business outcomes. (Bersin by Deloitte, The State of
Employee Recognition, 2012)
 When companies spend 1% or more of payroll on
recognition, 85% see a positive impact on
engagement.
(SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey, 2012)

22. Personal Growth and Fulfillment
 Understanding the “WHY” of the business
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_acti
on
 Requires the codification and consistent
modelling of a conscious corporate culture
(mission, values, behaviors)

23. Employee Engagement
Strategies
 Create strategies based on employee needs
 Don’t focus on one size fits all
 Create strategies that align with your intended
corporate culture

24. Take-Aways?

25. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
IS POSSIBLE!