Jon Ingham proposes 10 innovations to improve employee engagement strategies:
1. Align engagement with organizational culture and capabilities through different frameworks like sports teams or jazz bands.
2. Develop conceptual and analytical understanding of engagement.
3. Focus on employee experience through tools like journey mapping.
4. Embed employee expectations as an initial objective when developing strategies.
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Symposium 2019 Engagement Conference presentation
1. Ten Innovations to Add Life to
Your Engagement Strategy
Jon Ingham
Employee Engagement
Summit 2019
2. Jon Ingham
• Strategic HR / OD consultant
• Former International HR Director for EY
• Author of ‘The Social Organization’ (2017)
• Co-author with Dave Ulrich of ‘Building Better HR
Departments’ (2016)
• Trainer for Symposium
– Reward Strategies to Deliver Business Objectives
– Creating Value through Employee Experience
– Re-engineering Performance Management
– Job Design for Good Work and Increased Productivity
5. Importance in New Context
Current Level of Engagement
Innovative opportunities (requirements?):
1&2 Be more strategic
3&4 Be more people centric
5&6 Be more focused by level of engagement
7&8 Be better at management
9&10 Be more digital (use of technology and approach)
6. 1. Be More Strategic
Align Engagement with Your Culture / Organisation Capabilities
Horizontal
Pro Sports Team
Network
Jazz Band
Heirarchical /
Functional
Relay Race
Community
Family
Internal
Perspective
External
Perspective
Work done by
People
People Doing
Work
7. 2. Be More Strategic
Develop Conceptual / Analytical Understanding
8. 3. Be More People Centric
Focus on Employee Experience via Journey Maps etc
9. 4. Be More People Centric
Embed Employee Expectations as an Initial Objective
Divergent
thinking
Convergent
thinking
Identify
options,
pros and
cons
Implement
solutions
And
manage
trade-
offs
Review &
enhance
Business
strategy
Organisation
capabilities,
principles and
employee
expectations
10. 5. Be More Focused
Focus on Employee Segments or Individuals
Fixed
pay
Variable
(at risk)
Benefits Career
support
Education
support
Time
off
11. 6. Be More Focused
Focus on Groups and Networks rather than just Individuals
12. 7. Be Better at Management
Explore Different Management Options
• Dual career
streams
• Self
management
• Choosing own
manager
• Split project and
career
management
• Reduce power
and pay
differentials
• etc
13. 8. Be Better at Management
Involve in, rather than Direct, Change
14. HR professionals think technology is key to
employee engagement (14 March)
9. Be More Digital
Use Technology for Self Management, Organisational
Action, Monitoring and Analysis
15. 10. Be More Digital
Engage all Categories of Worker in New Digital World of Work
16. For Further Information
About me: joningham.com
My consultancy: strategic-dynamics.co.uk
“Strategic HCM”: strategic-hcm.com / strategic-hcm.blogspot.com
“The Social Organisation”: organization.social
Social media: linkedin.com/in/joningham, twitter.com/joningham
Email: jon@joningham.com, phone: 07904 185134
Me - @joningham
My perspective engagement half hearted
10 ideas, 5 pairs – give more power behind
*** Not based on academic research like Amy or in house research like Kav
not implemented them all – but all serious proposals at least discussed with clients
Note if haven’t done E4S things – Fran ***, do these first
Although some of them alongside rather than on top of
Bit more on me
TSO = Chit chat as work ***
Recognise me from Symposium emails
Reward
Experience
PM I’ll talk about that later
Job design
Good Work – Faran E4S
Ascot
Interests – travel, watersports (often both together as find water a bit cold in the UK)
*** Amy dehumanised workplaces and Aimee gigs but on a group basis
1 Not a big fan – don’t like way they define engagement as result of correlation vs something real – should always work out what you want to measure then measure it, not measure something and give a name to that measure
2 Also just because that correlation applies generally doesn’t mean it will apply to your organisation
However does demonstrate issue we have got
Not all surveys demonstrate this trend which is why I use it – provides maximum provocation
But none showing steep incline upwards
*** Amy The Human Moment
Business environment has ben changing, and fast. Employees most important asset, people centric
Engagement up there with other business strategies
Top books all from CEOs
Douglas Conant Touchpoints
Vineet Nayar Employees First
Tony Hseih Delivering Happiness
There’s a increasingly large gap
*** Quiet a few speakers figure out what engagement means to you – and -
*** Christopher understand organisation structures and cultures (actually form)
Firstly, because it is more important, treat it more seriously
Engagement in any serious way can’t be the same in every organisation
We all have different cultures or capabilities and engagement needs to align with these
This is the model I use in my own book TSO
Depending on the nature or form of the organisation, including its structure, informs the culture
Engagement in a pro sports team model eg Netflix (winning, performance) very different from a family model Barry Wehmiler / Everybody Matters (connecting, bonding)
Relay Race such as most big bureaucracies (individual contribution) very different to jazz band eg Spotify, Gore (improvis-ation-ised, dynamic)
Once understand this can be more granular about creating it
*** Faran and Kav figure out what engagement means for you
*** However Kav invited other speakers to disagree with him good data in but bad data moves you forward too
*** Faran engagement from employee perspective
*** Amy engagement as outcome (can’t be activity as can’t engage someone, can only create environment where they can be engaged)
This isn’t necessarily correct, in general, and certainly for your organisation, but if you can start to understand how various factors connect in your organisation, better position than just assuming links suggested by Gallup work for you. Can do this conceptually, and test with data, or do analytically
The new piece because of people centricity is added importance of employee perspective, so whilst in our organsation, we.. – our people are…
There are then connections or touch points between these two journies.
The mistake we’ve often made in engagement is thinking purely about the motivational state WE want from our employees
That’s fine, there’s nothing wrong, in fact that’s very helpful
But it’s not a useful way to communicate to employees
Engagement sounds manipulative
Therefore eg when I was an HRD we talked about the employee deal ***
Clockwise cycle from business activity to people view to people outcome back down to business outcome
This is key distinction between experience and engagement
Design thinking – don’t just ask people
Also gamification
Vs developing something clunks and bureaucratic and then putting new experience lipstick on that same clunky pig
Generations but lots of other differences too
People have different engagement drivers, can’t treat everyone the same way
Use of design thinking personas
And eg Total Reward Statements
*** ONA for energy etc
Point of performance now the group / network rather than individuals
What motivational states do these groups need in their people and across the group? (TSO)
Don’t agree with Gallup, but
Not just training
Getting the right people, and seeing management as the professional role
Dual careers -
*** Engineers as managers
Also more women! (Tomas Chamoro Premuzic book Incompetent Men)
MIT pm webinar IBM removed 300 managers last month cos upwards feedback
*** Aimee on changing culture
Borg model of change
Re Edelman / Dealth of Deference
ONA to find influences / social talent
For me not the main thing on its own, though it can help the employee experience, but helps everything else we’ve looked at, eg ESN, often at centre of Digital Workplace, to involve everyone in change
And especially personalisation
AI nudges
New research has revealed the top three HR priorities for 2019: increasing workplace productivity, increasing employee engagement and increasing employee retention*.
The research, which surveyed 500 HR professionals across the UK, also found that a further 86 per cent of HR professionals agreed that employee engagement would improve if their workforce had the technology to recognise one another on an ongoing basis.
But when it comes to connecting employees, HR has an even bigger obstacle to overcome with an increase of disparate and mobile workforces. Indeed, data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that the number of UK workers who work remotely continues to see a steady increase year on year. In addition, Google estimated 3 billion people globally perform work away from a desk every day across a variety of industries..
Rob Boland, Reward Gateway’s Group Director of Product & Client Success, said:
The demand for mobile working continues to grow, and as the research indicates, HR professionals are recognising that HR technology increases employee engagement.
*from Reward Gateway
Combining social media, fitness tracking and gamification, the BetterWorks product allows people to set long- and short-term goals, log their progress on a digital dashboard that others in the company can see and comment on, and get instant feedback in the form of “cheers” or “nudges” from colleague
Charles Handy’s three leaved shamrock now 4 leaves
Plus tech augmentation
Different engagement drivers
And ensure integrated, eg Google