Companies with engaged employees out perform other by up to 202%. Learn more reasons why your business should be measuring employee engagement. Also learn what companies are doing today to capture it and the pros and cons of each method.
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Measuring
Employee
Engagement
In The Flow
Of Work
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Today We Will Cover
Why Measure Employee Engagement
What Are Companies Doing Today
Measuring Engagement In The Flow Of Work
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71% of business leaders
said that employee
engagement was very
important for the
success of the
organization.
H ar var d Bus ines s R eview
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Companies with engaged
employees out perform
others by up to 202%.
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Organizations
with a high level
of engagement
report 22% higher
productivity.
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Actively disengaged workers
cost American companies an
estimated $300 billion annually
in lost productivity.
8. Engagement Surveys
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ENGAGEMENT
SURVEYS
PROS
• Easy to execute
• Easy to analyze
• Multiple “out-of-the-box”
solutions
• Initially creates a benchmark
and then checkpoints
CONS
• Not highly detailed
• Not real time
• Doesn’t take into account other
work environment factors
• Hard to make actionable
10. Mood Indicators
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MOOD INDICATORS
PROS
• Real-time data
• Existing technology solutions
• Multiple “out-of-the-box”
solutions
• Initially creates a benchmark
and then checkpoints
CONS
• Doesn’t always answer “why?”
• Typically anonymous
• Doesn’t take into account other
work environment factors
• Can be superficial
12. Wearables To Track Activities & Emotion
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WEARABLES
13. Wearables To Track Activities & Emotion
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WEARABLES
PROS
• Multiple, real-time data points
• Automatic – not relying on
employee action
• Can measure behavior, emotion,
and physical signals
CONS
• Employees may consider the
approach invasive: “big-brother”
• Expensive
• Requires significant analysis &
follow-up
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Would
you wear
one of
these
devices?
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IN THE FLOW
OF WORK
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IN THE FLOW
OF WORK
PROS
• Multiple data points from
different systems
• Integrated into daily activities
• Answers the “why” question
better than other options
CONS
• Needs more planning and
coordination
• Requires significant analysis &
follow-up
• Measures engagement more
than happiness
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TAP IN TO EXISTING SYSTEMS
SYSTEM/TOOL
CRM
KNOWLEDGE BASE
HELP DESK SOFTWARE
SHARED CALENDARS
INTRANET
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TAP IN TO EXISTING SYSTEMS
SYSTEM/TOOL WHAT YOU CAN MEASURE
CRM Logins/Activities logged
KNOWLEDGE BASE Posts contributed/Views/Visits/Comments
HELP DESK SOFTWARE Questions asked and answered/Number of logins
SHARED CALENDARS Number of meetings set/Number of meeting invited to
INTRANET Logins/pages viewed/Comments & interactions
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TAP IN TO EXISTING SYSTEMS
SYSTEM/TOOL WHAT YOU CAN MEASURE
CRM Logins/Activities Logged/
KNOWLEDGE BASE Posts contributed/Views/Visits/Comments
HELP DESK SOFTWARE Questions asked and answered/Number of Logins
SHARED CALENDARS Number of meetings set/number of meeting invited to
INTRANET Logins/Pages Viewed/Comments & Interactions
What if there was a system to aggregate all of this data?
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Takeaways
There are no wrong answers – all of these can help measure engagement.
Surveys are good and easy, but shouldn’t be the only thing you do.
A system to aggregate all data sources would be extremely helpful.
We still need to talk to our team members.
Editor's Notes
Welcome. – spent a lot of time researching the topic of employee engagement, trying to learn what works/what doesn’t. Excited to present. Questions are welcome.
And first let me say that employee engagement is a massive issue at all companies…
This proves it’s important to the majority of business leaders… The quesion is why...
And this is why. There is tremendous evidence around this…. Engagement equals performance.
Engagement equals productivity. I actually think this number should be higher. Lack of engagement – employees checked out is a terible thing.
And this is the cost to the country. It’s massive. So, with that as a backdrop, we’re going to look at technologies for measuring engagement. I’m biased about this. I have strong opinions backed by my own very informal primary research. But there’s been very little research on best ways to measure engagement – it’s new. We’ll look at XX – surveys, mood indicators, wearables, and technologies you’re likely already using -- in the flow of work – and how they may be used…
Old, not extinct but not as often discussed because of new tech
A lot depends on method of delivery – how it’s delivered. And the length – long vs. short. And how often these are delivered – once a year or once a week. INTRODUCE AGILE…. MVP and iterate. Learn/iterate.
Mood indicators are the rage – Was at a conference recently – many providers. Lots written on them – you’ve probably read about them or have them.
Depends on use… While it’s helpful to know that 65% of employees in an organization rated their current mood with a frowny face, determining how to turn that frown upside down requires additional effort and further exploration that necessarily involves direct feedback from previously anonymous sources. Or, do you hit them again with new info?
Second, require employees to stop what the work they are doing, consider their current mood, reflect on how their response will be perceived by the company, and choose how to respond. They are less adept at capturing how an employee is engaged in the work.
My kindergarten daughter’s school
A team from Deloitte that was moving from a cubicle setting to a more open space. To attempt to gauge levels of satisfaction and mood, they wore badges that collected data from microphones to track changes in tone of voice and accelerometers to track how often employees pushed away from their desks.
Hitachi employees are outfitted with a device that collects data 50 times per second to help gauge “happiness of the group.”
Another company helps large companies like Boeing, Facebook, Qualcomm, and Seagate gather information from employees’ address and subject fields of email and calendar appointments to “chart how workers are spending their time and with whom.”
The big question: will employees wear them. Reviews seem mixed. Some employees love getting information like this – others will not put them on. Also a cultural impact – countries like Germany will not do this. Others are OK with it. A lot depends on what’s measured and how the data is being used. It’s clear from some articles that regardless, some employees will not participate…
That brings us to a more holistic but less specific method of measuring employee engagement – in the flow of work. SO what is this? Using existing tools & technologies to measure engagement.
A note on intranet – a social intranet can go a long way – somewhere that gives employees a voice, that allows them to create their own posts – work-related and social. Where they can comment on others’ posts and LIKE stuff they like. This is partly generational. Riot Games & Livestrong vs. financial services companies.