The document outlines various employee engagement programs used by Sage, including:
1) SageCentral weekly video updates featuring colleagues across campuses that saw a 22% increase in video finishes and 40% increase in comments.
2) The #lifeatsage social media program where colleagues share work and personal photos tagged with the hashtag, which has reached over 1.8 million people and engaged 15% of North American colleagues.
3) Scavenger hunts used to promote change and new initiatives that had 57 entries and 26 likes on Chatter for the most recent hunt.
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Three ways to rock employee engagement like Sage
1. Three ways to rock at
employee engagement
(like Sage)
Karen Hamilton, Principal Web Manager
NA Internal Communications
@tinybites | @SageNAmerica
2. The next 45 minutes
• What does employee engagement mean to you?
• Our most popular engagement programs
• SageCentral weekly update
• #lifeatsage
• Scavenger hunts and other games***
• What are some of your engagement programs?
• Continuing the conversation
4. More than motivation or satisfaction
Employee engagement is the emotional
commitment that we have to our organization
and the organization’s goals. –Kevin Kruse
8. What is on your engagement menu?
Program Intranet F2F ESN Video Email Print/
Goods
Social
Media
Community 3rd
party
SageCentral
Weekly
Update
Future
#lifeatsage Future
Contests
Community
work
Town halls
Colleague /
team kudos
Company
store
Future
CATs
***** Future
9. A recipe for video news
Evolving the email newsletter
10. SageCentral weekly update
Desired Behaviors Channels
• Absorb key messages
• Take action
• Smash silos
• Represent your team
• Recognize
• Video
• Intranet
• Email
• ESN (future)
Motivators KPIs
• 15 mins of fame
• Creative outlet
• Watch your friends
• Blooper reel
• Viewership trend
• Discussion trend
• Participation rate per campus
• Clickthrough / completion trends for
action items
11. SageCentral weekly update results
• 88 colleagues and 8 execs representing 8 campuses
• Every episode in Top 50 of most read news of all time
• 99.5% email open rate–up 27.6% from email-only delivery
• Season 2:
o 22% increase in finishes (blooper reel)
o 40.3% increase in comments
• Feedback:
o “So look forward to watching these! Quick, informative, and
entertaining!”
o “So much fun, I totally recommend that more people take part.”
o “This is the way to deliver these updates, much more engaging!”
How would you direct Season 3?
12. Making it work in your organization
• Video host (YouTube, Vimeo) - $
• Video editing software - $$
• Video editor
• Personal smartphone / video camera at each locale
• Volunteer anchors
• Sample video script
• Sample emails
• Call for guest anchors
• Guidelines for filming your video update
14. #lifeatsage
Desired Behaviors Channels
• Live the brand
• Show pride in Sage
• Celebrate success
• Support our customers
• Capture community involvement
• Make others want to work for Sage
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Chatter
• Facebook
• Intranet
• ESN (future)
• Print / materials
Motivators KPIs
• Selfies
• Blend work with life
• Showcase talents
• Reach (impressions)
• % NA colleagues participating
15. #lifeatsage results
• 397 colleagues using #lifeatsage (15% of NA) since June 2014
• 1,223 Instagram and 1,643 Twitter posts reaching >1.8 million
people
• De facto colleague hashtag – going global!
Challenge: how can we track Instagram / Facebook?
Future: where is everyone hanging out now?
16. Making it work in your organization
• Accounts for channels where your employees live
• Display widget(s) for intranet homepage
• Easy to remember #hashtag
• Easy call to action
• Selfies / portraits
• Event pics
• Having fun
• Collaborate with external comms / marketing / social media teams
as well as other regions
18. Scavenger hunts
Desired Behaviors Channels
• Embrace change
• Champion change
• Learn new behaviors
• Take action
• Be an ambassador
• Intranet
• ESN
• Email
• In the office
Motivators KPIs
• Solve a mystery
• Friendly competition
• Free stuff
• Challenge yourself
• Showcase your talents
• Correct entries (learning check)
• Participation rate per campus
• Clickthrough / completion rates for
action items
19. Scavenger hunt results
• Used for:
o Intranet relaunch
o New systems and processes
o Welcoming and onboarding new team
o Learn about colleagues around the world
• Latest scavenger hunt on Chatter: 57 entries, 26 likes, 4
shares
• Feedback:
o “Love this contest! Feel like I'm getting to know more
colleagues than ever before!”
20. Making it work in your organization
• Contest formats
• Scavenger hunts
• Ideation
• [Social] media creation
• Referral drives
• Talent shows
• Cool prizes and giveaways - $$*
• Win: Apple anything, Fitbits, gift cards, trips
• Free Sage-branded stuff
• Sample contest terms & conditions
We are taking a selfie right now!!!
#Lifeatsage + Chatter
Prize for most engaged participant
When we’re engaged, when we’re emotionally committed, it means we’re going to go the extra mile. That’s why engagement is so important and so powerful. --Kevin Kruse @kruse
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” –Simon Sinek, TEDx speaker, RAND Corporation
http://genius.com/3465265/Simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-inspire-action/I-always-say-that-you-know-if-you-hire-people-just-because-they-can-do-a-job-theyll-work-for-your-money-but-if-you-hire-people-who-believe-what-you-believe-theyll-work-for-you-with-blood-and-sweat-and-tears
Article: http://www.kevinkruse.com/employee-engagement-definition/
Other thought leaders: http://vignetteagency.com/blog-post/top-13-internal-communications-thought-leaders-resources/
William Amurgis, NetJets: Inspire – Inform - Involve - Incite
Motivated employee = compensation. “I’m treated well”
Satisfied employee = happiness. “I like my job”
Engaged employee = committed and inspired. “I believe in my company”
Employees are your best brand advocates: http://www.socialchorus.com/resources/employee-advocates-are-hiding-super-powers-infographic/
Most interesting:
Content shared by employees receives 8x the engagement of content on branded channels
2x as productive and generate up to 80% of customers’ overall satisfaction
A 12% increase in brand advocacy can double revenue growth rate and boost market share
Sage colleagues in North America:
Food
Photos/video (selfies)
Social events
Giving back to the community
Prizes / contests
Recognizing themselves / friends
You need a number of different recipes or approaches to drive different behaviours
Different people will respond to different carrots, and even the same person may crave a different item on the menu depending on their mood
Trial and error: taste these recipes, find out where people think they taste good, and then refresh the menu
Once you have bestsellers: branch out to other locations
This is not a comprehensive list of all the programs we support in NA to drive engagement, but you get the idea.
Take a look at the comments in Twitter, IG, and Chatter about selfie taken at beginning of session.
Then show #lifeatsage stream on IG - https://instagram.com/explore/tags/lifeatsage/
Article: best of #lifeatsage 2014 - https://sagecentralna.com/News/20150106-Life-at-Sage-2014
SageCentral homepage: #lifeatsage stream – https://sagecentralna.com
Spreading outside of NA (France, UK, Brazil)
What else will help us make it work?
Collaborate:
Share social analytics tools
Help to curate
What else will help you make it work?
How many of you use contests and games as part of your internal comms strategy? What type of games / achievement oriented programs do you run?
https://sagecentralna.com/News/20150202-SPR-scavenger-hunt
Random prize for sharing: Sage pin!
*Prizes cost money, but they can be sponsored internally/externally or already be in your inventory.
What else will help you make it work?