Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies

Learn to:

Use employee recognition to drive unprecedented results Take employee engagement to new levels in your organization Increase employee performance, productivity, retention, and morale

The effective way to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement

This book walks you step–by–step through incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for a recognition and engagement program to be effective in the long term. With clear explanations and a fun, friendly style, this is your quick and easy guide to boosting productivity, profit, and customer satisfaction.

Get acquainted learn the key elements of employee engagement, discover how it′s driven by recognition, and gain five strategies for fostering involvement Put the fun in fundamentals get friendly, down–to–earth guidance on the principles and importance of recognition and review the most effective ways to acknowledge employees Start implementing discover how to successfully execute a recognition and engagement program throughout your organization from the ground up Culturally speaking create a culture of employee recognition, use an online system, and sustain and re–energize your efforts along the way for quantifiable results

Open the book and find:

A jargon–free intro to identifying and engaging employees How to enhance employee engagement through recognition Step–by–step guidance for building a culture of appreciation Tips for selling recognition to senior management How to acknowledge and engage Millennials Guidance on troubleshooting recognition problems The top ten trends in employee appreciation

Introduction 1

Part I: Enhancing Employee Engagement through Recognition 5

Chapter 1: The Quest for Engagement 7

Chapter 2: Strategies for an Engaged Workforce 21

Chapter 3: How Recognition Drives Employee Engagement 43

Part II: The Fundamentals of Employee Recognition 61

Chapter 4: The Importance of Employee Recognition Today 63

Chapter 5: The Principles of Employee Recognition 81

Chapter 6: The Manager s Role in Recognizing Employees 97

Chapter 7: Getting Managers to Recognize Employees 113

Part III: Implementing Recognition throughout the Organization 133

Chapter 8: Creating a Culture of Recognition 135

Chapter 9: Engaging and Recognizing Individuals 155

Chapter 10: Engaging and Recognizing Teams 171

Chapter 11: Implementing Organizational Recognition 189

Part VI: Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Recognition 207

Chapter 12: Recognition and Technology 209

Chapter 13: Sustaining and Reenergizing Recognition Efforts 225

Chapter 14: Troubleshooting Recognition Problems 241

Part V: Issues and Challenges in Recognizing and Engaging Employees 257

Chapter 15: Selling Recognition to Senior Management 259

Chapter 16: Recognizing and Engaging Millennials 273

Chapter 17: Engaging and Retaining High ]Potential Employees 289

Part VI: The Part of Tens 311

Chapter 18: Top Ten Ironies of Motivation 313

Chapter 19: Top Ten Trends in Employee Recognition 323

Chapter 20: Ten No ]Cost Strategies for Recognizing and Engaging Employees 335

Index 349

Dr. Bob Nelson is considered one of the world′s leading experts on employee engagement, recognition, and rewards. He is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting company that helps organizations improve their administration practices, programs, and systems.