SHRM25 Session Preview: Fixing Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is in crisis. Gallup estimates global disengagement costs $8.8 trillion annually, and U.S. engagement levels haven’t improved in 25 years—in fact, they’re declining.
Employee engagement is in crisis. Gallup estimates global disengagement costs $8.8 trillion annually, and U.S. engagement levels haven’t improved in 25 years—in fact, they’re declining.
I addressed the crowd at the SHRM24 Annual Conference in Chicago and HR professionals who associate us with Stay Interviews alone often miss out on what I described in the session’s title as “the best-ever employee retention solution”.
The answer is “yes”, according to a new SHRM study that covers the overall impact of managers on employees’ mental health.
The feedback from my SHRM22 Annual Conference concurrent session tells me participants were starving for real retention solutions, at a time when all U.S. companies were facing 11 million open jobs and 3.5% unemployment.
I’m looking forward to speaking at the SHRM21 annual conference in Las Vegas next week, and while I speak at the conference each year, this year I have been asked to prove that managers cause turnover and disengagement rather than HR. Here is a preview of my Mega Session.
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