Each year, new trend reports from analysts and research firms showcase ideas that promise to shake up the HR industry. This year, get in front of the trends. Get the future-proof, actionable advice you can use to turn emerging trends into positive business outcomes. Listen as these employee experience experts guide you through five best practices you can use to engage your employees in 2019. Key takeaways: See five emerging trends that are transforming HR strategies behind recruiting, performance management, and other imperatives Best practices you can put in place to benefit from trends like continuous listening, employee experience roles, machine learning, and more Forward-looking insights from interviews with industry influencers and market research

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Beyond the Trend Reports
5 BEST PRACTICES FOR
Engaging Employees
in 2019

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Kim Dawson
Director of Employee Experience,
YouEarnedIt
Erica Denner
Head of People and Culture,
HighGround
Presenters

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Overview
& Agenda
• The State of Engagement
• Emerging Trends in Engagement
• 5 Best Practices for 2019
• Q&A

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The State of
Employee Engagement

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Gallup
Despite employer efforts,
engagement has barely budged
• 33% in 2016
• 34% in 2018
The State of
Employee Engagement

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SHRM
In the next 5-10 years, HR will be
more important to a business’
success than ever.
“Human resource professionals
need to know and contribute to
the vision, mission, and financial
success of the business.”
– “HR 2025” report from SHRM
The State of
Employee Engagement

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Josh Bersin
More than two thirds of all HR
technology investments are
vastly under-used.
– Sierra-Cedar research
“There will be a holy war for
the employee experience in
the years ahead.”
–Bersin at HR Tech 2018
The State of
Employee Engagement

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5 Trends &
Best Practices
of 2019

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Trend #1
Learning and Development is now one of the
most sought-after perks.
• Number one driver for millennials
• $400 billion spent on L&D now

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How effective are your organization’s
Learning & Development initiatives?
Quick Poll
• Very – people love them!
• Somewhat effective
• Neutral
• Somewhat ineffective
• Very ineffective

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Best Practice #1
Level up your Learning
and Development

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How to make it happen:
• Evaluate your L&D: Is it piecemeal or robust?
• Measure your team’s competencies
• Add L&D that leads to success
• Get creative!

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Trend #2
HR Tech is evolving faster than ever,
and it’s assisting — not automating —
HR professionals.

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Best Practice #2
Ask more from your insights.

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How to make it happen:
• Audit your current reports-to-insights process
• Vet future HR tech for better insights
• Integrate HRIS and other programs
• Empower people to take action

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Trend #3
The demand for HR professionals
to be business advisors and
champions is increasing.

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Best Practice #3
Make HR a champion for
your business

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How to make it happen:
• Identify opportunities in current HR org chart
• Empower roles to help the employee experience
• Support these roles with the data from your HR tech
• Think of problems from the perspective of the C-suite

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Trend #4
Our workplaces are killing productivity
— and more
• 2018 Royal Society Study: open offices lead
to a direct decline in productivity
• Stanford professor: workplace stressors are
the 5th leading cause of death in America

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Best Practice #4
Save the (work) environment.

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How to make it happen:
• Gather feedback about your current office layout
• Designate areas for collaboration/privacy
• Get creative with perks or swag
• Make this a priority!

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Trend #5
As siloed engagement efforts fail, employee
experience platforms are emerging.
• Forbes: 2018 was the “year of the employee experience”
• Forrester: 2019 is the year employee experience moves
“front and center”

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Best Practice #5
Put the employee experience front
and center

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How to make it happen:
• Take stock of existing employee experience efforts
• Analyze issues with awareness, adoption, etc.
• Centralize efforts where employees are
• Secure executive buy-in

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Quick Poll

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Is your organization
using an employee
engagement
platform today?

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