50 Activities for Employee Engagement

Book description

This collection of skill-building activities will help you understand what employee engagement really means, how it can help your organization and how to create and maintain an engaged workforce. Managers, supervisors and even engaged employees will gain the perspective and insight necessary to make this exciting cultural transition successfully. You'll find activities to help you define employee engagement, measure the current level of engagement in your organization and understand critical underlying principles. Move on to the activities on overcoming obstacles, motivating engaged employees, how world famous leaders lead engagement and other advanced topics. The activities are organized into six, easy-to-reference sections: Understanding employee engagement; Getting started to engage employees; Leading employee engagement; Measuring employee engagement; Creating an engaged workplace; Employee engagement communications. Each of these fun and easy-to-use employee activities focuses on a different aspect of employee engagement and can be completed in 30-45 minutes. Each activity includes the purpose, description, time guidelines, resources, presentation instructions, debriefing guidelines and a handout.

Table of contents

  1. 50 Activities for Employee Engagement
    1. Copyright
    2. Introduction
    3. Part I: Understanding Employee Engagement
      1. Chapter 1: Defining Employee Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      2. Chapter 2: Getting Engaged
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      3. Chapter 3: Engagement Exercises
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      4. Chapter 4: Engaging Questions
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 5: Mission Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      6. Chapter 6: Engaging Principles
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      7. Chapter 7: No Engagement Zones
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      8. Chapter 8: Engaging Intangibles
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
    4. Part II: Getting Started to Engage Employees
      1. Chapter 9: The Engagement Proposal
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      2. Chapter 10: In Search of Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      3. Chapter 11: Five Steps to Engaging Your Workforce
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      4. Chapter 12: Employee Engagement: It's Common Sense
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 13: The Engagement Process Model
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      6. Chapter 14: The Engagement Journey
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
    5. Part III: Leading Employee Engagement
      1. Chapter 15: Coaching Engagements
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      2. Chapter 16: From Boss to Coach (1/2)
      3. Chapter 16: From Boss to Coach (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      4. Chapter 17: Motivating Engaged Employees
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 18: Engagement Obstacles
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      6. Chapter 19: How Would Famous Leaders Lead Engagement?
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      7. Chapter 20: 50 Ways to Lead Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
    6. Part IV: Measuring Employee Engagement
      1. Chapter 21: The Price of UnEngagement (1/2)
      2. Chapter 21: The Price of UnEngagement (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      3. Chapter 22: Engagement Scorecard (1/2)
      4. Chapter 22: Engagement Scorecard (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 23: Engagement Accountability
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
    7. Part V: Creating an Engaged Workplace
      1. Chapter 24: To Engage or Not to Engage
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      2. Chapter 25: Engagement Happens
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      3. Chapter 26: Engagement and the Egg
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      4. Chapter 27: Engaging Up and Down the Organization
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 28: In Search of Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      6. Chapter 29: Lasting Engagements
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      7. Chapter 30: Emotional Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      8. Chapter 31: Past Engagements
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      9. Chapter 32: Engagement Gifts
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
    8. Part VI: Employee Engagement Communications
      1. Chapter 33: Picturing Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      2. Chapter 34: Name that Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      3. Chapter 35: Organizing for Engagement (1/2)
      4. Chapter 35: Organizing for Engagement (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      5. Chapter 36: Engaging Knowledge Experts (1/2)
      6. Chapter 36: Engaging Knowledge Experts (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      7. Chapter 37: Transitioning to Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      8. Chapter 38: Pressures to Succeed
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      9. Chapter 39: Engagement Measures
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      10. Chapter 40: Managing the Change to Engagement (1/2)
      11. Chapter 40: Managing the Change to Engagement (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      12. Chapter 41: Engaging Principles and Behaviors (1/2)
      13. Chapter 41: Engaging Principles and Behaviors (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      14. Chapter 42: Engagement Formula
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      15. Chapter 43: The Engagement Game (1/2)
      16. Chapter 43: The Engagement Game (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      17. Chapter 44: Engagement Ambassadors
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      18. Chapter 45: Engagement Milestones
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      19. Chapter 46: The Employee Engagement Map
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      20. Chapter 47: The Sounds of Engagement
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      21. Chapter 48: The Engagement Chronicles
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      22. Chapter 49: Engagement Road Show
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief
      23. Chapter 50: The Engagement Puzzle (1/2)
      24. Chapter 50: The Engagement Puzzle (2/2)
        1. Activity Description
        2. Purpose
        3. Description
        4. Resources
        5. Presentation
        6. Debrief

Product information

  • Title: 50 Activities for Employee Engagement
  • Author(s): Peter R. Garber
  • Release date: August 2007
  • Publisher(s): HRD Press
  • ISBN: 9781599960661