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Page 1: Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman Engaging Your Employees An Interview with Author Brad Federman People and Projects Podcast

Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Engaging Your Employees

An Interview with Author Brad Federman

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Page 2: Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman Engaging Your Employees An Interview with Author Brad Federman People and Projects Podcast

Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Brad FedermanBio

• Author of Employee Engagement: A Roadmap for Creating Profits, Optimizing Performance, and Increasing Loyalty

• President of Performancepoint, LLC, a client-driven management consulting firm focusing on the human impact in organizations

• Recognized leader in the performance improvement industry

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement vs. Employee Satisfaction

• In your opinion, what's the difference (if any) between employee satisfaction and employee engagement?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement• How would you rate our team's engagement level overall

•From 1-10, where 1 is not engaged and 10 is completely engaged?

•What do you base that rating on?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement• What would be the impact on our

organization if the following was true:

• 28% of our workforce is going to switch jobs or fields

• 36% want a better work/life balance

• Only 37% of our employees think our leaders are committed to creating an engaged environment

• 65% of our workforce says they are not thriving--they want more

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement•What are some ways we help our employees feel wanted and valued, and that they should want to stay with our company?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement•What are some specific behaviors that, if we displayed them more consistently, would improve how engaged our employees are?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement•What are some specific behaviors that, if we displayed them more consistently, would improve how engaged our employees are?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement• In the interview Brad differentiates organizations as those who face more on risk--what could go wrong--from those who look at the opportunity--what is possible. Would you say we focus more on risk or opportunity?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Employee Engagement• In the interview Brad differentiates organizations as those who face more on risk--what could go wrong--from those who look at the opportunity--what is possible. Would you say we focus more on risk or opportunity?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Next Steps

•What do we need to do differently as a result of this discussion?

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Engaging Your Employees, an interview with author Brad Federman

Additional Resources

• Employee Engagement, by Brad Federman (published by Pfeiffer)

• Podcast interview: “How Engaged Are Your Teams? A conversation with Kenneth W. Thomas”, April 2009.


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