Theimportance of soical networks for employee engagement

1. do you have a best friend at work?
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2. Workplace Excellence
How social networks can improve
engagement and innovation
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3. Welcome
Tanya Kennedy
Workplace Director
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4. Welcome
Brian Drury
Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
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5. Tanya Kennedy
Workplace Director
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7. Workplace Excellence
How social networks can improve
engagement and innovation
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8. Work is part of life, it is
not in opposition to it…
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9. Close friendships are
vital to health,
happiness, and even
workplace productivity
Wellbeing: The Five Essential
Elements (Gallup Press)
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11. What is it about a close
friendship in the
workplace that makes
such a profound
difference?
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12. just 30% of employees have a
best friend at work
those who do are seven times as
likely to be engaged in their jobs
those without a best friend in the
workplace have just a 1 in 12
chance of being engaged

13. Inclusive leadership

14. The inclusive leader
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15. 84% made them feel more
motivated.
83% had
increased their loyalty to their
team, leader and organisation
81% were motivated to go
the extra mile above and beyond
their day to day role.