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Brace yourself – while arguably the most important part of a successful employee engagement program, acting on the results is where things seem to get tricky for a lot of companies. Response tends to go one of three ways: 1) overwhelmed by the data; 2) defensive of the data; or 3) a sincere desire to respond to the data. However, now that you know what is most relevant to your team, you can tailor your communication and strategic direction accordingly.

In my previous post, I provided some of the elements needed to make a solid business case for a formalized Voice of Employee (VOE) program. Now that you’ve got the WHY, let’s move on to the design mechanics you need to ensure your program delivers!

Intuitively, everyone seems to get it: happy employees are productive employees and productive employees impact the bottom line in countless ways. Yet, why isn’t this enough to secure funding for a systematic and ongoing employee voice program? Because you simply can’t count on translating common sense to resources in today’s business environment that relies on hard ROI figures and up-to-the-minute financial performance to drive investment. You need to make a solid business case.

Most of the CEO’s I speak with agree that innovation and improved customer service is the key that will help their company emerge from the recession stronger than their competitors. To accomplish this requires employees with good morale and solid productivity. The problem may be that if your employees are like 55% of American workers, [...]

This blog post discusses the results of a quantitative survey that Allegiance recently conducted with voice of the employee (VOE) practitioners, including human resource vice presidents, directors and managers, as well as other HR-related titles. It also talks about why, in order for companies to create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage once they economy rebounds, they not only need to be actively listening to their employees now in real-time to address and resolve any concerns that they have, but also start putting some strategic measures in place to retain their best and brightest employees.