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Here are 21 contemporary employee engagement tools and concepts that can make a difference in employee engagement in 2015 and beyond.

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View employee engagement as a rich experience and opportunity that will benefit the employee, organization, management, leadership, customer, and society.

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Start all employee engagement work by thinking about what needs to stop or end so that there is capacity and energy for engagement.

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Ensure that engagement definitions and measures are inextricably woven into performance and results.

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Extend employee engagement invitations and “let” employee engagement occur.

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Determine the smallest most significant thing we can do to enhance engagement then build in structures to ensure it happens again and again and again…

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Co-create surveys with employees (yes, ask employees what questions should be asked on the survey) and offer real time feedback with courage to face setbacks and enthusiasm to celebrate progress.

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Acknowledge and accept that we are all responsible for engagement.

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Use current social media tools to craft strategy and ensure everyone is on the same page by letting everyone write on that page. Embrace the line from positive deviancy, “never do anything about me without me.”

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Amplify employee voice so that we can all be heard and work together to respond to what we hear.

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Use any signs of disengagement as a trigger for a meaningful conversation with the person who is disengaged.

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Ensure that engagement enriches the well-being and energy of the employee both in-side and outside of work.

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Recognize that engagement and effort is always under the discretion of the employee and work together to enhance the inherent discretion in all work.

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Ensure senior leadership knows they are employees too, and work with them to keep them fully engaged.

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Provide employees with their own dashboard of engagement to keep them updated daily or even hourly on theirpersonal level of engagement.

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Make use of smart phones as a primary tool for engagement information, measurement, and intervention.

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Refuse to treat employee engagement work as a fad or bandwagon and integrate engagement so tightly into work, management, and leadership that we seldom feel the need to use the term employee engagement.

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Make the workplace so safe that no one hesitates to sign their name to their work or their engagement measure. We don’t foster engagement with anonymous approaches and survey invisibility cloaks.

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Treat all performance variance conversa-tions and interventions as engagement work rather than as another number, tick box, form, or something to avoid.

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Maximize the amount of autonomy and freedom within work and encourage employees strengths to come to the surface, to shine, and to make our organization stronger.

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Structure work so that at the end of the day employees report that work is an energy gain for them not an energy drain.

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Measure less, engage more, and enthrall often.

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What’s next?Who is David Zinger? David Zinger is a global employee engagement expert. He has spent over 14,000 hours on employee engagement. David founded the 6600 member Employee Engagement Network. He has spoken around the globe and he wrote 3 books on work.

How can he help me? David can help you increase employee engagement through small, simple, strategic, sustainable and significant actions. His help is infused with value, cost effective, and simple to implement.

How do I get in touch with Mr. Zinger?Email: david@davidzinger.com Website: www.davidzinger.comPhone: 204 254 2130