Employee Recognition & Engagement Resources

The following excerpt comes from C.A. Short Company’s FREE eBook, 35 Ways to Influence Corporate Culture and Increase Your Bottom Line.

In this post, we’ll take a look at the importance of Social Experiences in the work place and offer up a suggested activity that will help create a Culture of Engagement at your company.   

What I don’t always realize is that staying aware of safety-related issues shouldn’t end when I clock out on Friday afternoon. Maintaining a safe work environment, whether at work or at home, should be my top priority for both the well-being of myself and my family, as well as my job.

Here are a few tips that should always be applied when working around the house to ensure you get back to work on Monday in one piece.

C.A. Short Company is proud to announce our new complimentary eBook, 35 Ways to Influence Corporate Culture and Increase Your Bottom Line. This complimentary eBook is a powerful tool that aims to help organizations achieve and maintain a meaningful Culture of Engagement.

Today’s blog entry is an excerpt from this publication, and it focuses on the importance of mentors and how your organization can best decide who to select for this role. Happy Friday!

As we’ve touched upon in our past blog entries, connectivity and ownership are vital to the concept of Safegagement^™. Not only should their presence resonate within every position, department and office setting, but connectivity and ownership also serves as our fifth and final component of Safegagement. Possibly the most important we will discuss, these two elements have the power to truly ignite individuals and unlock their potential.

Last year, we were invited to speak about the importance of employee engagement on Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. During our time on the show, we discussed changing the way organizations look at employee engagement, as well as bringing solutions to the problems of employee disengagement. 

We've spoken a great deal about how to engage employees within your organization. That's why this blog will focus on the other end of the spectrum -- identifying employee disengagement. When you hear the term "disengaged employee," it's easy to think of employees browsing Facebook or placing personal Amazon orders. However, disengaged employees are not always that easy to spot. Most of the time, they have not always been disengaged, but through a series of events, they find themselves caught in a cycle of negative thoughts or with an apathetic outlook on their responsibilities. Employees that were once proactive thinkers can become purely reactive and stop contributing in meetings. 

Do you ever find yourself asking how you can help increase employee engagement and create a safe environment? One of the most effective means of accomplishing this is through a points-based safety incentive program designed with measurable rules to engage your employees and reward them with points they can redeem for desirable merchandise. When coupled with a comprehensive Safegagement strategy, this program helps create a culture of recognition and boosts morale in the workplace.

This type of employee recognition program has proven time and again how effective it can be to ensure proper actions among employees. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA said, “A positive incentive program encourages or rewards workers for reporting injuries, illnesses, near-misses, or hazards; and/or recognizes, rewards, and thereby encourages worker involvement in the safety and health management system. Such an incentive program can be a good thing and an acceptable part of a (VPP) quality safety and health system.”

Recently, we introduced you to Safegagement™. A key component to building a safe and engaging environment, leading indicators promote continuous improvement by drawing attention to successes—both big and small. Today, however, we will be focusing on the second component -- Comprehensive Training. 

As we continue our series highlighting the 5 key pillars of Safegagement^™, an overarching theme begins to take shape. Placing value both in your employees’ abilities and the work they do instills an unwavering sense of pride and self-worth—two vital factors to consider when building a safe and engaging work environment. 

As you’ll see, this sentiment is once again on display in our next pillar, Positive Reinforcement. Often times, companies will simplify this powerful concept by distilling it down to monetary and tangible efforts. However, this is an all too critical mistake as this is an idea that goes far beyond annual bonuses and free coffee in the break room and one that will make all the difference in your ongoing engagement efforts.