Employees are responsible for it, too

We talk about employee engagement. A lot. We measure it, predict it and help companies improve it. As a feedback and analytics company, people reach out to us to help them discover how they can improve business results by ensuring that employees are at optimal engagement.  Our experience has yielded a some key findings, including:

1. Companies deploy employee engagement surveys that often measure job satisfaction, not engagement.
2. Most Everyone -- from the marketplace to employees, managers and leaders in organizations -- assume that engagement is solely the company’s responsibility.

In this moment, we are forced to creatively manage our lives and businesses given the challenges of COVID-19. We’re doing more with less — less cost, less facetime, less clarity. For business leaders, it may appear that employees are grateful to be employed. But, does that mean they are engaged? 

Even prior to these conditions, business news regularly bombarded us with messaging that the U.S. workforce is disengaged. If you’re a part of an organization that conducts yearly engagement surveys, your analytics may also raise the question, what do we need to improve?

by Kara McCord, M.A. IO Psychology

How Does this End?

Right now, in this moment, your organization might very well be in survival mode. Your team is learning to work from home, or you’re trying to figure out what social distancing looks like in a workplace. Think of survival mode as “phase 0” on the journey toward re-entry. On any given day, it might feel like survival mode will last forever, but it won’t.

We’re all on a journey of re-entry or put in a more aspirational way: a journey of renewal. But where are we going? How will we know it’s time to go back? And what are we going back to? Talmetrix believes your team already has the answers to these questions, you just need to know how to prompt them to share and how to listen for insight.

by Kara McCord, M.A. IO Psychology

Work (and life) as we knew it came to a screeching halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The federal government is passing massive legislation to offer aid to Americans at a record-breaking pace, the economy is more volatile than ever, and organizations are changing in the form of remote work or furloughing their workforces.