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Five Things to Rethink About Employee Engagement Five Things to Rethink About Employee Engagement Employee engagement has been a top HR trend for years now. We know its important and we all want to increase our engagement levels, buthow? Its notoriously difficult to raise and maintain high levels of employee engagement and beyond that, proving to your own boss why its so important can be hard. So here are five ways to think about the problem differently. Its a new year, so maybe its time for some new thinking. Five Things to Rethink About Employee Engagement The Big Secret To Employee Engagement For all the thousands of articles and books on how to improve employee engagement, the overall numbers never seem to improve. Are we missing something about engagement? Does it even matter, after all?  Cord Himelstein says that engagement does matter but were thinking about it all wrong: its not about complex plans, its about common decency. Be a great boss in a great workplace and engagement will follow. Lets Change Our Perception Of Employee Engagement Like Himelstein,  Cha Tekeli says that were thinking about engagement wrong. Its important. The data on that is undeniable, showing a strong correlation between high engagement and higher productivity and effectiveness. But just because we can measure something doesnt meant we can approach it as a math problem. Engagement, he says, isnt a project. You dont need an Engagement Lead or an engagement strategy. Well, not exactly. What you need is to treat your employees well and ensure theyre challenged, motivated and acknowledged. The Marketing Tactics That Can Improve Your Employee Engagement Efforts Engagement initiatives essentially work to reassure employees that theyve made the right decision by working for you. Theyre about reminding workers of why your company is a good place to work or making your company a better place to work so why not turn some marketing tactics inwards, approaching employee relations more like you would customer relations. That is, as a relationship that needs regular care and attention. Employee Experiences Found to Impact Outcomes 100% of Time   Ok, employee engagement matters, but how much does it really matter? Things get done even if employees arent 100% engaged, 100% of the time, right? Employee survey and research company SMD found that employee experience consistently impacted businesses. A lot. And in sometimes surprising ways. AI Plus Human Intelligence Is The Future Of Work Ok, ok, we get it. Employee engagement is important and its not exactly easy to improve. Its one of those intangibles that can only be addressed through long term, consistent, positive action. Fine. But are there ways we could fine tune that? Identify points of dissatisfaction and stress, and then fix them faster?  Jeanne Meister says that AI is your employee engagement  secret weapon.