Here is a compilation of our favorite 10 quotes from leaders on employee engagement. We hope they will motivate you to improve your HR practices and rethink how you do management. Everyone wins when employees are engaged and sometimes all you need is a small idea to spark an innovation.
1 – Employees need to love their job. When hiring, try to find people who match with the company values.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs
2 – The power of a simple thank you is often underestimated. Encourage employees to also recognize each other.
“People leave when they don’t feel appreciated. That’s why we’ve made recognition a really high value. Our business is people-capability first; then you satisfy customers; then you make money.”
– David Novak, CEO of YUM! Brands
3 – Authentic and recognized connection are the base ingredients for your plan if you want to get results.
“Employee engagement is the art and science of engaging people in authentic and recognized connections to strategy, roles, performance, organization, community, relationship, customers, development, energy, and happiness to leverage, sustain, and transform work into results.”
– David Zinger, employee engagement expert
4 – Use the power of the “Like” to promote good behaviors from employees.
“Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.”
– Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
5 – Creating a great company culture will help you in your engagement process.
“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”
– Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup
6 – Whatever the size of your company, you need engaged employees to have satisfied customers who then bring you the cashflow.
“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow… It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”
– Jack Welch, former CEO of GE
7 – Just as said in #6, engagement lead to profitability. Get to know your employees.
“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.”
– Anne M. Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox
8 – Practice makes perfect. Get good engagement habits.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
9 – Everyone need to work towards the same goal and help each other.
“A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental.”
– David Packard, late co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
10 – Everyone likes to be recognized. The effects are positive for everyone!
“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.”
– Sam Walton
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