Employee Engagement and Turnover

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the workplace has similar issues today. A quick visit to Gallup.com reveals that only 33% of employees are “engaged.” This is roughly the same as it has been for the last 15 years.22 If you think about that statistic and trend, it means that despite huge amounts of money being spent on improving engagement, it hasn’t resulted in any substantial improvement. It means that managers and organizations are just as dysfunctional now as they were 15 or 20 years ago.

Read what Victor Lipman writes:

“If 60% to 70% of employees are working at less than full capacity, an awful lot of you in management are dealing with motivation problems. It also means there’s a huge opportunity: an opportunity to better engage employees and improve productivity for your department and organization. To use simple numbers, if you manage 10 employees and six of them are to some...