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SUMMARY:
In this episode, Vincent and Theresa chat about some Gallup data around employee engagement across the world. Who is actively disengaged at work? Who is not engaged? Who is engaged?
Check-In:
- What's at the top of your bucket list?
Big Ideas:
- professional bucket list
- the success race
- when we buy things to make us happy
- Connection between engagement and success
- Company tap into personal engagement
- Let people be engaged how they want to be engaged
- Lebanon - highest percentage of active disengagement
- Actively disengaged, not engaged, engaged
- Sweden - lowest percentage of actively disengaged
- Mali - highest percentage of engagement
- Italy - lowest percentage of engagement
- Cultural implications of engagement - social expectations and relationship to success
- Social media and relationship to engagement
- Engagement NOT connected to GDP
- Engagement levels have doubled in the last decade
- Covid-19 made people realize the importance of things other than work
- Choice of 5 day of disengaged employee, or 3 days of an engaged employee
- Ease in hiding your engagement in large companies
- Gallup 12 Questions:
- I know what's expected of me
- I have what I need to do my job
- I can do what I do best
- I get recognition at work
- Someone cares for me at work
- Someone encourages my development
- My opinion seems to count
- Mission and purpose of company
- I see commitment to quality to work
- I have a best friend at work
- Someone talks to me about my progress with me
- I can learn and grow
- When best friends at work keep you from being objective
- Cultural nuances around "best friends"
- Use questions like these concretely
- Engagement of entrepreneurs or in small companies is probably higher
- Would it make sense to break out large companies to improve engagement?
- Breaking up companies into pods
- If you have to make any decision, you have to find 2 other people to back you
- Create the conditions for collective intelligence
- A group is not a team
- Do work that we love and be engaged
- Are the younger generations less tolerant of corporate BS?
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