Individua Gallup Case

Recruiting and retaining top talent is now the forefront of executive business decisions. According to a Q12 Gallup assessment, engaged workforces have higher earnings per share when compared with their competition with 22% greater profitability overall. We had the opportunity to interview world renowned employee engagement speaker, David Zinger, to discuss more on this topic.

What strategies can be implemented?

One method David proposes for work engagement is employees creating their own performance review questions as a shared self-evaluation tool. This enables employees to become active participants and answers what managers try to predict given only statistics. While some employers may be weary of deviating from the norm, an internal survey can eliminate unfavorable behaviors and even avoid public relation disasters - something companies like, Uber and Fox News, are all too familiar with. Another caveat of the traditional review system David points out is the timeline of when the report is presented to the employer. The digital age thrives off reviews with feedback from minutes to weeks, at max. The fact that performance reports are shared months later is a deep concern. Additionally, even when a manager can pinpoint from where and whom a response came from, anonymity and confidentiality prevents addressing
While corporate wellness programs are becoming more popular, participation is just at 24% and 40% of the employees are not aware of the program’s existence. A gamified messaging platform can facilitate the higher participation rates. Imminent developed a cloud-based environment where four out of the five wellbeing elements from Gallup are addressed. Founder CJ Follini believes, “ Work engagement is about an emotional connection towards your job that positively influences behavior and effort. A company has to treat its employees as its first