Employee Engagement
WE CREATE A CULTURE OF CONNECTION™ WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS THAT ULTIMATELY LEADS TO INCREASED EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION, AND PRODUCTIVITY
Major Factors of Employee Engagement
Engagement is a tricky thing to measure because there are many factors that can play into an employee’s overall engagement. Here are common themes that arise that apply universally to almost all teams and organizations.
Vertical Relationship – Is this person’s relationship with their superiors collaborative, supportive, and respectful?
Rewards & Recognition – Do this person’s efforts deem worthy of celebration because they are going above and beyond the basic requirements expected of them?
Upward Mobility – Does this person express interest in expanding their career within the organization by increasing their own involvement and/or skill sets?
Meaningful Work – Does this person feel positively challenged by their work and understand how their work contributes to the greater purpose of the organization?
Employment Balance – Does this person believe that their sense of compensation, work load, work conditions, and benefits are fair?
Team Player – Does this person go out of their way to support fellow co-workers, even if it’s outside their own role and responsibility?
Community Builder – Does this person engage in and support the social connections between co-workers to build a stronger sense of community within the organization?
Organizational Pride – Does this person openly express how proud they are to be in the organization and do the work they do?
Together, these eight universal factors of employee engagement can be used to help a leader assess each individual person’s engagement within their team and organization. Once we understand these factors, we can begin to understand the different levels on the Dance Floor Theory™ Engagement Pyramid.
MEET Tom
LEAD FACILITATOR
After starting his first business in college that grew to $1.5 million in annual sales, Tom went on to be the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Swift Kick. Since 2004, Tom has trained over 850,000 leaders around the US and the world including England, South Korea, Indonesia, and Bermuda on how to build a Culture of Connection™ within their organization.
Tom has trained leaders at some of the largest companies in the world such as Coca Cola, Pfizer, Apple, and Nike. Through his speaking, he holds an unprecedented 7 National Speaking Titles from APCA. He is a TEDx speaker, held a Guinness World Record, and he sat on the boards for both the NYC Entrepreneurs’ Organization for 5 years and the NYC National Speaker’s Associating for two years.
Tom’s award winning program, Dance Floor Theory™, is recognized as the standard best practice for increasing community member engagement and retention rates. Organizations both small and as large as the U.S. Military have brought Tom in to train and deploy his methodology to turn apathy into action.
And on a personal note, Tom lives just outside of New Year City, was named after a cat, was on a reality show on NBC, was featured on the Tofurky box, got kicked off the Oprah Winfrey show, and loves peanut butter so much that he filed paper work to start a festival in NYC called the NYC Peanut Butter Jam.