The Truth About Employee Engagement - Aditya Yadav

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“Running an Agile Fortune 500 Company”
Aditya Yadav, aditya.yadav@gmail.com
in.linkedin.com/in/adityayadav76

2. * A Typical Global Company
* Fortune 500/1000
* 200 Divisions
* 40 Countries
* 25000 Employees
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@ Acme Inc.

4. * Original Question “How do we increase
Employee Engagement?”
* The Correct Question - “Are we asking our
Employees the Right Questions and getting to
the Root of the Problems? Or are we Beating
Around the Bush?”
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And The Philosophy Behind The Answer

6. * An "engaged employee" is one who is fully
involved in, and enthusiastic about their work,
and thus will act in a way that furthers their
organization's interests.
* An employee's involvement with, commitment
to, and satisfaction with work.
* Employee engagement is a part of employee
retention.
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8. * Survey and Categorize People into
1. Actively engaged and Staying
2. Actively engaged and Leaving
3. Engaged and Staying
4. Engaged but Leaving,
5. Disengaged and Staying
6. Disengaged and Leaving
* HR Goals
* Maximize (1) and (6)
* Minimize (2) and (5)
* Predict and Prevent (2) and (4)
* Elevate (3)
* HR Justifies its Engagement Programs by
* Empirically Quantifying Employee Engagement
* Correlating it to Possible Revenues
* And Stating the Revenue Impact of their Efforts.
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9. * Activities and Games in Office
* Food and Drink budgets for Teams
* More Training and Learning
* … and other Adhoc things that don’t really matter…
* Because its like saying… while we don’t understand
your concerns and problems and have not fixed any
of them we are going to have a continuous 24x365
party… hopefully that will keep you engaged
* The HR is usually clueless about
* The Root Causes for Disengaged Behavior
* Other Diagnostics, Insights and Inferences
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10. * Dale Carnegie – Of a 1500 cross industry sample only
29% of the Employees were Fully Engaged
* 26% were fully Disengaged
* And others fell in between
* U.S. businesses lose $11 billion annually due to
employee turnover
* Rule: Engagement has the Strongest correlation
with an employee’s relationship with his or her
immediate supervisor
* Solution: We need Coach’s Not Managers!!!
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11. * Disengaged Employees are putting in the
minimal amount of effort to achieve expected
results
* Solution: Stop Prescribing Targets set the
Direction
* Solution: Refer To The 3 Golden KRA’s, which
counters Disengaged Behavior Survival and
helps Detection and Diagnostics
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13. * Only 1 Single Question Anonymous Survey
* Are you planning on leaving this year? Yes/No?
* Please mention 5 points/lines to elaborate
why/why-not…
* Mention your name should you choose to disclose
it to the HR for a follow up: <Name>
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14. * Once you have the results from the previous
survey
* All you need is common sense and a sincere
effort to fix issues
* Processes are no substitute for those…
* You need empowerment not processes
* And are not needed!
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15. Aditya!!!
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