PLATFORM | Employee Engagement
No matter where innovation comes from, it is an organization’s employees who will make it a reality. However, its personnel must be properly engaged with the company, otherwise the innovations will go nowhere, and the ideas will die on the vine. As Professor Julian Birkinshaw of the London Business School stated, “You cannot foster true innovation without engaged employees.”
A Gallup study showed that higher levels of employee engagement are strongly correlated to greater levels of innovation. It reported that 59% of engaged employees said their job brings out their most creative ideas, while only 3% of disengaged employees said this true.
These findings are crucial because according to Corporate Leadership Council research, 97% of business leaders say that innovation is their top priority. When you put these factors together, it becomes obvious that organizations cannot achieve their innovation goals without employee engagement.
What is Employee Engagement? – It is a set of positive attitudes and behaviors held by the employee toward the organization and its values, that enables high job performance which is in tune with the company’s purpose and vision. An engaged employee is aware of what the organization is trying to accomplish and works with colleagues to improve performance within the area of their responsibility for the benefit of the organization.
Countless studies have shown that an organization function best when its employees are committed to company goals, which then results in their potential and creativity being unleased and focused on company objectives.
This is documented by several separate Gallup studies that showed earnings per share (EPS) growth of organizations with engagement scores in the top quartile was 260% that of organizations with below-average engagement scores.
Employee engagement is easy to recognize. It is that quiet buzz of activity when one walks into an engaged office. It is evidenced by an attitude that says, “We have a lot to get done, and not a moment to waste.”
There are the seven ingredients we have found there are necessary within a work environment to produce engaged employees who will effectively innovate.
What we do – Using special processes we developed we work with clients to ensure their personnel are fully engaged with their organization so that they will be excited with every opportunity for innovation.
