Cutting Through the Noise: The Right Employee Engagement Strategies for YOU

  • 2h 21m
  • Norma Dávila, Wanda Piña-Ramírez
  • Association for Talent Development
  • 2013

Managers are flooded with theories, concepts, and ideas for how to improve employee engagement—but what works, and what doesn’t? This book helps managers cut through the clutter of all those strategies and find the one that works for them. Beginning with the myths and realities of employee engagement, authors Dávila and Piña-Ramírez highlight the importance of organizational culture and context when it comes to keeping employees invested in the organization.

  • Understand the various stages of employee engagement.
  • Consider change management as a critical issue in employee engagement.
  • Learn how to maintain that engagement throughout your employees’ careers.

About the Author

Norma Dávila has dedicated her career to develop others in industries as diverse as education, banking, technology, pharmaceuticals, retail, and utilities. She is a hands-on consultant in human resources and training who designs and implements change management, capacity building, and e-learning strategies. Norma is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Yale University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology at the University of Chicago. Wanda Piña-Ramírez has held various roles in industries such as hospitality, tourism, telecommunications, restaurants, petrochemicals, retail, waterworks, and government. Wanda is certified as Coach (CCC) from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, as Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming and Applied Kinesiology by the International NLP Trainers Association. She serves as Advisory Board Member of the School of Business Administration of the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón. Wanda received the Training and Development Professional Award of the Puerto Rico chapter of the American Society for Training and Development in 2011.

In this Book

  • Cutting Through the Noise—The Right Employee Engagement Strategies for YOU
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Myths and Realities of Employee Engagement
  • Importance of Organizational Culture and Context in Employee Engagement
  • Starting Out and Testing the Waters
  • Stable and Critical Incident
  • Growth and Decline
  • Stay or Leave and Re-engage or Disengage
  • Just Beginning, Getting Settled, and Looking for More
  • Riding the Tide, Mission Accomplished, and Moving On
  • From Generic to Individual Attention: Are You Practicing What You Preach?
  • Next Steps and Action Planning in Employee Engagement
  • References
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