Maximize Employee Engagement

The most cutting edge thinking around how to maximize employee engagement is by elevating the happiness levels of the people themselves. The key here is to recognize that as a business or an individual leader in the business, you can directly impact the work and personal lives of your people by elevating their happiness. There are several key reasons why focusing on maximizing happiness in the workplace is the best way to impact employee engagement. The first reason is that people today can be overwhelmed by the complexities of their own lives and when they come to work, these things don’t go away. In fact, they get compounded by adding work dynamics onto this load. People have health issues, financial woes, personal crisis’s, deep worries that they bring with them onto the job all of which affect engagement levels. Even worse, when leaders pretend these things don’t exist, don’t acknowledge their lives outside of work and simply pile on additional work and possible worries, it becomes difficult to perform optimally.

Businesses Can Directly Impact the Work and Personal Lives of Employees by Elevating Their Happiness

The second reason to focus on happiness is that this is the key to having a great life. People work to enhance their own lives. They make a living so they and their families can have a great life. Traditional sources used by companies to engage and motivate people do not have the same effect on them today as it was perceived to have historically. Pay increases, promotions are ineffective. Why? Because the effect on the employees does not last and more importantly you cannot give everyone a pay raise or a promotion every year…so now what? You might say we have a dynamic employee wellness program designed to care about our people and their health. These are nice but overall have very low participation rates.

Focusing on Elevating Employee Happiness is the Foundation of Maximizing Employee Engagement.

Focusing on elevating employee happiness is the foundation of maximizing employee engagement. Gary Kunath knows it can be done because he has spent the last three years working with major companies and leading happiness initiatives for them. There is a simple seven step process to maximizing happiness in people that we apply to the workforce. The results have been incredible. People love it because never in the employment lives, has any company showed they cared enough to focus on them in this way. When Gary delivers these short two hour happiness seminars or delivers a 60 minute keynote talk on happiness, the people view it as the greatest gift any company has ever given to them. It has universal appeal and it is a can’t miss formula for raising engagement. After all who doesn’t want to be the happiest they can be?

“I remember after a session I did for Google, I had multiple people come up after and tell me they had offers from other companies to leave Google, but were so moved that Google was making their happiness a priority it strengthened their loyalty to Google.” says Gary Kunath

Gary now has been asked by numerous companies to bring this approach to maximizing workforce happiness their organizations. The people leave with specific actions they will apply to their own lives to directly elevate their personal happiness and that of their families.

You want to energize your people? Elevate the engagement levels of the people? Then focusing on helping your people have the greatest life possible and maximizing happiness in their lives is the new engine of business!!!!

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