For more career advice, visit the Career Energy homepage

The Macleod review into employee engagement was published recently. The authors had been asked by the Department of Business to investigate whether wider take up of engagement approaches could impact positively on UK competitiveness and performance, and meet the challenges of increased global competition. The answer was a clear yes.

Governments need reports in order to justify policies. But in reality this one was a no brainer. Anyone who knows anything about business, or about people, could have told them that the more that staff are engaged with, commit to, and believe in a company, the more effort they will put in and the more successful the company will be.

At Career Energy we have long recognised the importance of employee engagement. Six months ago, in this blog, we outlined how coaching can improve engagement and called upon companies to offer one to one support to staff at all levels, not just executives. Since then we have introduced our highly successful Career Energisers, time-efficient, concentrated, cost-effective interventions designed to address the motivational and loyalty issues faced by organisations.

Employee engagement is likely to be one of the buzz words of the next decade. It is part of a social trend in which we are all starting to see our careers as an integrated part of our lives; demanding greater satisfaction from those careers and in turn being prepared, and expected, to commit to them to a much greater extent.

Successful companies over the next decade will be those which engage with their employees, and encourage their employees to engage with them. It may be a no-brainer, but it won’t happen by itself. Fortunately, at Career Energy we are able to influence both sides, helping employees to have more fulfilling and stimulating careers, and helping organisations and companies to integrate more fully with their staff. Whether you are an employee or an employer, give us a call. See what we can do for you.

Related posts:

1. Combining Personal and Work Values The engineering consultancy WSP have been running an innovative scheme...
2. Sickness In The NHS A new report says that sickness rates in the NHS...
3. Working Better? Writing in the Guardian this weekend, Equality and Human Rights...
4. Career Planning For Flatter Organisations This weekend we saw the first indications of how public...
5. A Great Opportunity We have reached the point, common to all recessions, at...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Tags: Career Advice, Career Change, Career Energy, Career Energy Energisers, career management, Career Planning, Employee Engagement, Macleod Review

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 5:25 am and is filed under Career Advice, Career Change, Career Consultant, Career Energy, Career Planning, Employee Engagement, Uncategorized, Workplace Dilemmas . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Harry Freedman's new book How To Get A Job In A Recession is available now. Click here to buy.

Have the Career Energy blog sent to your inbox daily. Click on the Entries RSS link on the right of the page or set up a feed in your e-mail programme

Take our 10 minute career advice FaceBook quiz and find the right career for you. Click here.