If you are contemplating on the activities that you can do for your kids this coming school holidays and unsure if they would work out well, the best way is to get your kids to design their own holiday plans. You can then minus an idea and plus another and you have a winning formula that makes your kids happy and bolsters the relationship you have with them.

At work - no matter what your A-Class consultants tell you or how long you ponder upon the best way to engage your employees, the best solutions always come from the very brains and hands that grind the mills on the ground.

Everyone likes to be asked how they feel – it shows we care for them. Everyone likes to be asked how they feel about something – its shows we respect their opinions. Care and respect go a long way in boosting employee feel good and ultimately their morale and performance at work, especially at times when payrise and increase in perks-benefits packages are hard to come by.

This is where the importance of employee engagement becomes apparent. Engaging employees in management policies and decisions is key to ensuring internal buy-in and sustainability of the ensuing programs/initiatives. More and more organizations realize the need for targeted employee engagement exercises as a subset of wider employee relationship management – and are employing a host of tools and methodologies to achieve this.

While the use of annual employee satisfaction surveys have been providing management crucial trending information, what most enterprises are moving on to are targeted event/initiative/program specific employee opinion surveys. This exercise is proving to be a powerful mechanism by which employees’ views and feedback are accounted for before major programs are rolled out for implementation. In fact, it is not uncommon to conduct department-specific surveys for department level programs/initiatives using similar platforms.

If your management is seeking to understand internal performance issues, decipher ground-level sentiments, uncover employee-motivation issues, know how popular your management decisions will be or how well can your implement a planned event/initiative, a well designed employee opinion survey will be able to provide the very insights you are looking for.

The good news is the proliferation of SaaS and cloud hosting facilities mean that enterprises could purchase the employee engagement services without fixed commitments in IT or any other area – making these a popular and effective solution for a host of internal performance issues. In fact, most players in this niche market are able to deliver powerful real-time analytics at very cost effective prices.

What is imperative in the selection of vendors providing these services will be their approach in asking the right questions in the right way, which means that there must be sound understanding of the organisation’s underlying cultural set-up, leadership-style, employee emotional and intellectual attributes – which determines how comfortable the employees feel to say what they want to say .

So do not be surprised to discover that most of your employees find the idea of having a 10% all year round discount on meals from Secret Recipe on the ground floor of the office block is far more enticing that the RM1500 per person paid team-building event the management so enthusiastically hoped would motivate them to perform better. A classic case of how simple analytics produce more outcomes at lesser costs. Decision making can’t be simpler.

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