Calculate the financial impact engagement is having on your company and learn ways of improving it.
Engagement is a critical factor to the success of your business and satisfaction of your customers
2. What Engagement is Not
Happiness – engaged employees are
considered happy at work, however happy
employees are not necessarily engaged
Satisfaction – a satisfied employee may show
up at work without a complaint but they won’t
likely go the extra distance for the company
3. What is Engagement?
The emotional commitment an employee has
to their organization and its goals resulting
in the use of discretionary effort
4. Organizations with high employee
engagement experience
65% greater share-price
26% less employee turnover
100% more unsolicited employment
applications
20% less absenteeism
15% greater employee productivity
Up to 30% greater customer satisfaction levels
(2013 survey by the Queen's School of Business - Centre for Business
Venturing (QCVB) and Aon Hewitt)
7. Putting a dollar value on the impact of
engagement on productivity
The Financial Impact
8. Categorize your workforce
Fully engaged employees are passionate about their work and the
organization; will do whatever it takes to deliver the results; perform
beyond expectation; look for new opportunities to personally and
professional grow
Engaged employees are solid, dependable performers; focused on
deliverables, projects and individual responsibilities; master their
responsibilities but don’t expand outside of it
Somewhat engaged employees are selective about where they put
their energy; deliver when they have to; are masters at distracting
others; benefits they receive from the organization are the main
reasons they stay
Disengaged employees only work when they have to; perform at
below expected levels; spread negative feedback about the
organization and leaders
9. Financial Impact
ABC Company
20% highly engaged
35% engaged
35% somewhat engaged
10% disengaged
Annual payroll of $1,000,000
(Allocation based on Jack Welsh theory of employee engagement)
10. Financial Impact – Scenario 1
Level of
Engagement
% within
Organization
(A)
% Performance
Level
(B)
Performance Impact
(A x B)
Highly 20% 125% 25%
Engaged 35% 100% 35%
Somewhat 35% 75% 26%
Disengaged 10% 50% 5%
CURRENT PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL (C) 91%
% OF LOST PERFORMANCE (100% – C) 9%
TOTAL ANNUAL WAGES $1,000,000
VALUE OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO ENGAGEMENT $90,000
11. Implementing Employee
Engagement Strategies
Shift of engagement level within the engaged
and someone engaged population
20% of the 35% engaged employees become highly
engaged (shift of 7%)
20% of the 35% somewhat engaged employees
become engaged (shift of 7%)
12. Improvement on Productivity
Level of
Engagement
% within
Organization
(A)
% Performance
Level
(B)
Performance
Impact
(A x B)
Highly 27% 125% 34%
Engaged 35% 100% 35%
Somewhat 28% 75% 21%
Disengaged 10% 50% 5%
CURRENT PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL (C) 95%
% OF LOST PERFORMANCE (100% – C) 5%
TOTAL ANNUAL WAGES AND SALARIES $1,000,000
VALUE OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY DUE TO
ENGAGEMENT
$50,000
VALUE OF PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT $40,000
13. How many would be people?
Assuming -15 employees:
Scenario 1 Scenario 2
Highly engaged 3 4
Engaged 5 5
Somewhat engaged 5 4
Disengaged 2 2
Total employees 15 15
15. Corporate culture
Corporate culture represents the behaviors
and beliefs of what the company stands for
The perceptions of the employees about
culture will impact their level of engagement
“You can be the architect of your culture or you
can be the victim of it” – Len Gaby, Sleep America
16. Key Components of
Engagement
Processes - Do the processes in your
organization enable your employees to
effectively get their work done easily?
Tools - Does each employee have the
tools available to allow them to get their
job done in an efficient manner?
People - How well do we know our people
and what motivates them?
18. Security and Safety
Emotional – trust, threat of job loss, passive
aggressive behavior, immoral or illegal activity
Physical – physical abuse, threat of injury,
limited access to premises by stranger
19. Financial Security
Salary – wages are perceived as fair in
relation to responsibilities, peers and market
Benefits – are benefits provided relevant to the
employee
20. Relationship and Belonging
People don’t leave companies, they leave
bosses
Relationships with peers vs direct boss vs
senior leader
Type of communication – does the employee
feel heard and how does boss react to their
feedback?
21. Recognition
Verbal and material recognition that shows
a direct acknowledgement of a person
Organizations with sophisticated recognition
practices are 12 times more likely to have strong
business outcomes. (Bersin by Deloitte, The State of
Employee Recognition, 2012)
When companies spend 1% or more of payroll on
recognition, 85% see a positive impact on
engagement.
(SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey, 2012)
22. Personal Growth and Fulfillment
Understanding the “WHY” of the business
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_acti
on
Requires the codification and consistent
modelling of a conscious corporate culture
(mission, values, behaviors)
23. Employee Engagement
Strategies
Create strategies based on employee needs
Don’t focus on one size fits all
Create strategies that align with your intended
corporate culture