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Strategies to Engage Your Employees

Strategies to Engage Your Employees

Total video time: 31m
Award-winning instructor: Ross Tartell, PhD
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What you’ll learn

Provide adequate resources.
Create a productive work environment.
Craft tasks that become meaningful work.
Create a culture of support.
Improve your team’s engagement.
Avoid ambiguous direction.

Skills you’ll gain

Leadership Emotional intelligence Communication

Keeping employees engaged is crucial for peak performance but challenging. In this course, executive coach Ross Tartell teaches the six factors of engagement. You’ll learn what defines employee engagement, its importance, and how to foster better working relationships. Ross covers avoiding ambiguous direction and using feedback to improve communication. By the end, you'll know how to create an engaging environment to help your teams reach their highest potential.

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    Engagement for everyone Keeping employees engaged is the best way you can help foster teams that perform at the highest levels. 1m
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    What is employee engagement? There are many different definitions of employee engagement. 2m
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    The 6 drivers of engagement You can't create an environment of engagement until you know what factors influence employee engagement levels. 1m
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    Your role as a leader Your relationship with your team is the largest factor that drives engagement. 2m
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    Know where you're going If you or your team members don't know the direction of the organization or have confidence in that direction, it can be hard to stay engaged. 2m
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    Finding meaning in work You've likely experienced the feeling of having a seemingly pointless task or project until the larger picture was shared. 2m
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    Development is personal Helping people develop knowledge and skills that are important to their future success shows that your organization and you, as their manager, care about the employee. 2m
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    The power of feedback Without feedback, development is crippled because people will not know their strengths and areas for development. 3m
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    Strategies to develop people Your first inclination when you think about developing your team might be to have them take courses, but most learning actually happens on the job. 2m
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    Creating a productive work environment Culture is the way things work and feel in an organization - the way things get done. 2m
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    Providing adequate resources Adequate resources impact the employee's perception of whether they can succeed. 2m
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    Action plans Equipped with tons of new knowledge, you're now ready to map out how you want to take action with it. 1m
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    Engagement is personal As important as the six factors are to creating a climate of engagement - the choice is also personal. 1m

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded upon successful completion of the course.

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Instructor

Ross Tartell, PhD

Ross changes the trajectory of people’s lives. He uses his years of practical and in-depth professional expertise to help people make better decisions, become more successful in their work and improve their personal lives. He is Principal of Ross Tartell, Ph.D. Consulting and teaches at Columbia University. He has an M.B.A, M.Ed., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Ross is a two-time past President of the Southern Connecticut Chapter of ATD and is a member of the editorial boards for Training magazine and the OD Review. Ross, is involved in a wide range of community activities and is an avid jogger.

Principal at Ross Tartell Consulting Inc. Ross Tartell, PhD

Ross Tartell, PhD

Principal at Ross Tartell Consulting Inc.

Accreditations

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