Building and Bonding Your Team - Employee Engagement

1. Session title
Speaker name, Title, Affiliation
Employee Engagement:
Building & Bonding Your Team
Brent Darden
IHRSA Board Chairman/ Brent Darden Consulting

2. Employee Engagement:
Building & Bonding Your Team
March 12, 2014
www.brentdarden.com

3. Make time to work on the business
not just in the business.

4. All organizations are perfectly aligned to get
the results they are currently getting!

5. Our People Should Be Our Priority!

6. “When it comes to the future, there are
three kinds of people; those who let it
happen, those who make it happen, and
those who wonder what happened.”
-John M. Richardson

8. Engaged employees care about the future of the
company and are willing to invest
discretionary effort!

9. 30%
52%
18%
Gallups “State of the American Workplace” - 2013
Engaged Disengaged Actively Disengaged
* 350,000 respondents

10. Engaged employees feel a strong
emotional bond to the organization.
Understanding Employee Engagement

11. • Higher Service
• Higher Customer Satisfaction
• Increased Sales
• Higher Levels of Profit
• Higher Retention Levels
• Increased Productivity
• Lower Absenteeism
• Greater Loyalty
Engaged Employees Lead To:

12. Develop a “Roadmap” for employee engagement.

13. “Unlike coercion and
motivation, the source of
inspired conduct is
intrinsic and internal.”

15. Engagement Factors:
• Best Friends
• Sense of Community
• Reciprocal Teamwork
• Professional Growth
• Personal Development
• Feedback & Recognition
• Meaningful Work
• Belief / Trust In Company
• Fair Compensation

16. The Set-Up

17. Manage new employee expectations...

18. Tell Your Story & Listen To Theirs

19. “The task is to find people who are already predisposed
to sharing your core values.”

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21. The Welcome

22. The on-boarding event experience itself leaves
a mark on the minds of new recruits.

23. Personal Welcome Note and
One-on-One Meeting.

25. The Orientation

26. Cultivate desired
behaviors early with
homework.

27. When an employee joins the team, they need to be
immersed in the organizations culture (how we do
things around here).

28. Team Handbook

29. Traditions Training:
Provide an interactive
new employee
orientation that
shares the company’s
philosophy and
foundational values.
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30. Clearly communicate the role of the new
team member and how it relates to the overall
company vision...

31. Purpose is profoundly personal...

32. The Proposition

33. Provide an incentive to opt out!

34. A Tribe is a group of
people connected to
one another, connected
to a leader, and
connected to an idea.

35. The Community

39. The Recognition

40. “Recognition is effective because it answers a
universal human need.”

41. Personal note of congratulations!!!

42. TELOS Titan Award :
5 years of service.
$1,000 Cash:
10 years of service.

43. Spa Day
Small Tokens of
Appreciation
Easy Notes

45. CIA Program

46. Tom Peters says...
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

47. The right gift/reward given at the right time
will never be forgotten!

48. Personalize The Gift...

49. The Fun

51. Chinese Proverb:
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The
next best time is today.”

52. Employee Engagement:
Building & Bonding Your Team
March 12, 2014
www.brentdarden.com