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Essentials of Driving Results through Employee Engagement

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On average seventy percent of workers are not engaged in their work. This raises the question, do leaders need to engage people to boost their discretionary effort and improve results? This workshop explains how effective leaders connect with and engage people. The workshop presents key research findings and case studies about the best employee engagement practices of effective leaders. Participants receive several tools including a checklist of desired leadership behaviors that will help them engage the people they lead and drive organizational results.

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Program Overview
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Who Should Attend

Program Overview

Workplace learning and performance professionals have the most credibility, influence, and impact on their organizations when they work in an engaging environment that maximizes their productivity and energy. Unfortunately, seventy percent of workers today are not engaged in their work and giving their best effort. This workshop draws on knowledge integrated from multiple fields including neuroscience, organizational behavior, psychology, and sociology to provide guidance on how effective leaders can engage their workers to increase ROI.

This workshop will:

Clarify the difference between employee happiness and engagement.
Introduce the six universal human needs to thrive at work.
Review key research on employee engagement and human connection.
Introduce a model to create a work environment that engages people.
Provide exercises where participants identify leadership behaviors that are engaging.
Review examples of leaders who were connected with and engaged the people they led.
Provide an actionable checklist of leadership behaviors to help leaders engage people.
Provide a process to develop an engaging work environment.
Assist participants in developing an action plan to engage the people they lead.

Engaged employees are more productive, more collaborative, and less likely to leave. In fact, research demonstrates that the set of leadership behaviors taught in this workshop help people thrive at work and drive the business’s bottom line.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

Understand the six universal human needs to thrive at work.
Understand the basic impact of engagement and connection on people
Understand the three types of psychosocial cultures that affect employee engagement.
Understand the three core elements of a culture that engages employees.
Apply lessons learned from leaders who created an engaging culture.
Apply a set of leadership behaviors that will help participants increase engagement.

Topics

Session 1-Why Engagement Matters, Engaging with Vision
Session 1-Why Engagement Matters, Engaging with Vision

In this session you will learn what engagement and connection are, the effect they have on people and the first element of a “Connection Culture” that engages people and helps them thrive.
- Engagement. Task excellence along with relationship excellence creates sustainable superior performance.
- Science of employee engagement. A review of key research.
- Universal human needs to thrive at work.
- The Connection Culture model of employee engagement.
- Engaging with vision and inspiring identity.
- Leadership behaviors that reflect vision.
Session 2 - Engaging with Value
Session 2 - Engaging with Value

In this session you will learn the second and third elements of a Connection Culture.
- Engaging with value (human value).
- Leadership behaviors that reflect value.
- Know their stories, micro-connections, and appreciation styles.
- Introduction to engaging with voice (knowledge flow).
- Seek opinions and ideas, speak honestly, and safeguard connections.
- Use knowledge flow to reduce knowledge traps.
Session 3 - Engaging with Voice
Session 3 - Engaging with Voice

In this session you will learn the remainder of the third element of a Connection Culture that was partially covered in session two.
- Leadership behaviors that reflect voice.
- Portfolio mindset to selecting leadership behaviors that engage people.
- Three types of people: intentional disconnectors, unintentional disconnectors, and intentional connectors.
- Review the list of leadership behaviors that engage and connect then select three to implement.
- Process to create a connection culture: educate, motivate, measure, and mentor.

Who Should Attend

This program is for professionals at any level who want to understand what workplace environment and leadership behaviors engage people to boost productivity, innovation, overall performance, and the bottom line. Experienced learning and performance professionals, as well as external consultants who want to engage others will also benefit.

What Participants Are Saying

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Joyce Abell

"I believe ASTD has the tools to help me learn the science behind adult learning principles and application to create a training environment that meets my business needs."

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Joyce Abell
Joyce Abell
Administrator of Training and Development
Royal Engineered Composites, Inc
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"I believe ASTD has the tools to help me learn the science behind adult learning principles and application to create a training environment that meets my business needs."

Meet Our Facilitators

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Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard, president of E Pluribus Partners, is a speaker, teacher and consultant on leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation. He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity and a contributor to The ASTD Management Development Handbook. Articles written by Michael or about his work have appeared in leadership periodicals worldwide. He has spoken or taught as many leading organizations including General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the NASA Johnson Space Center, Scotiabank, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

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Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard, president of E Pluribus Partners, is a speaker, teacher and consultant on leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation. He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity and a contributor to The ASTD Management Development Handbook. Articles written by Michael or about his work have appeared in leadership periodicals worldwide. He has spoken or taught as many leading organizations including General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the NASA Johnson Space Center, Scotiabank, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Dec 12-19, 2013

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Essentials of Driving Results through Employee Engagement

Session 1-Why Engagement Matters, Engaging with Vision

Session 2 - Engaging with Value

Session 3 - Engaging with Voice