Employee Engagement For Dummies - by Bob Kelleher (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Today more than ever, companies and leaders need a road map to help them boost employee engagement levels. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps employers implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing them to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity and creativity.

Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you foster employee engagement, a concept that furthers an organization's interests through ensuring that employees remain involved in, committed to, and fulfilled by their work. It covers: practical steps to boost employee engagement with your company or team; how to engage different generations of employees; the keys to reduce voluntary employee turnover; practical tools to help retain and engage your employees; processes that will boost employee retention and productivity; hiring the best fits from the start; and much more.

• Helps you recognize and understand the impact of positive employee engagement
• Helps you attract and retain the best employees

Employee Engagement For Dummies is for business leaders at all levels who are looking to better engage their employees and increase morale and productivity.

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Boost employee engagement levels, productivity, and creativity
• Create and sustain an engaging culture
• Attract and retain the best people

Create and sustain an engaging culture for your employees

Today more than ever, companies and leaders need a road map to help them boost employee engagement levels. Employee Engagement For Dummies helps you implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing you to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity, morale, and creativity.

• Employee engagement 101 -- get started with employee engagement basics, find your employee engagement baseline, and make the connection between engagement and motivation
• Drive home engagement -- engage employees through leadership, use each generation's values to engage them, and drive engagement through team development, branding, and gamification
• You're hired -- find the lowdown on hiring for engagement, from interviewing job candidates to effective onboarding techniques to foster engagement
• Measure engagement -- discover how to measure and recognize engagement, from setting performance goals to offering rewards and recognition (and everything in between)

Open the book and find:

• How to make a business case for employee engagement
• The effectiveness of using each generation's values to engage them
• The importance of communication to engagement
• Characteristics of an engaged team
• How to help struggling employees
• Ten ways to engage new hires
• How engaged employees help your bottom line
• Quick recognition ideas that will boost engagement

About the Author

Bob Kelleher is the founder of The Employee Engagement Group, a global consulting firm that works with leadership teams to implement best-in-class leadership and employee engagement programs. He is the author of Louder Than Words and Creativeship, as well as a thought leader, keynote speaker, and consultant.