10/01/2018

How Leaders Can Help Drive Employee Engagement

An engaged workforce is a matter of life or death for a business

A staggering 87 percent of employees worldwide are not engaged. Employee engagement is sometimes referred to as the holy grail for today’s business leader, and for good reason. According to Gallup, a highly engaged workforce means the difference between a company that outperforms its competitors and one that fails to grow. It is a matter of life or death for a business.

In the United States alone, businesses spend hundreds of millions of dollars to improve employee engagement. Yet progress toward a more fully engaged workforce has been minimal. Why?

Although many give lip service to a holistic philosophy, most approach the issue in a piecemeal, fragmented way. There is the employee wellness bucket, the productivity bucket, the workplace culture bucket, the recruitment and retention bucket.

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