Create a Happier Workplace! Leadership, Employee Engagement & Working Culture With Claire Loftus

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Title: Create a Happier Workplace! Leadership, Employee Engagement & Working Culture With Claire Loftus
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What's the secret to creating a happier workplace? We asked employee engagement specialist Claire Loftus for her insights into unlocking the potential of team members in a business.

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Claire is Director of Evolve, a consultancy built around HR and employee engagement. She brings over a decade of professional experience as well as lifetime of relevant academic study to clients.

Claire explained that her expertise in HR, employee engagement, leadership, employee wellbeing and day-to-day HR partnering has shown the importance of a positive working culture.

"When you talk about creating a happier workplace it can sometimes sound very fluffy and not very tangible for a lot of business owners.

"But it actually makes really good business sense because happier people attend work more regularly and are more productive."

Claire outlined the services offered by Evolve, both in more traditional HR and in helping to improve employee engagement.

"The business has two sides to it, one side is slightly more reactive where a business has been encountering an issue and where they are engaging our services generally more for transactional HR. Following on from that we can look at adding value to the business.

"We also do proactive work and that's something I'm really enthusiastic about. These are leadership, culture and engagement programmes including Engage and Grow which we have the licence for here in Northern Ireland."

Are companies starting to understand the value of employee engagement or is education still needed?

"You still have to educate but I think they do understand because one of the biggest bills an organisation has is their wage cost. It can have an impact on your bottom line if your employees aren't delivering.

"Engagement levels globally are really low, they went up by 13% to 15% last year. So, 85% of global employees aren't actually delivering to their full potential or are only delivering what's expected of them.

"So there's a huge opportunity there for businesses to be getting more performance and then that will have an impact on their bottom line."

Claire explained that it's "not rocket science" for companies to improve on this.

"It's like going to the gym, there are things you need to do and you need to do them consistently. To begin with, take a step back to look back at what engagement is.

"There are three levels of engagement. Take, for example, going into a coffee shop. The level of service you get can change and quite often that is because of the level of engagement of the staff.

"Gallup, a global organisation who look at employee engagement on an annual basis, use three levels of 'engaged', 'disengaged' and 'highly disengaged'.

"The highly disengaged are people who are causing havoc in your business, they are being disruptive, maybe causing grievances and will have a bad attitude.

"Your disengaged people are just doing what's expected, they aren't doing any more, at 5pm they are out the door and they are probably scanning Indeed or NIJobFinder or whatever it might be.

"Then you have your highly engaged employees, these are the people who are invested in your business. They are willing to go the extra mile and they'll stay late to help pull you out."

Is it possible to achieve 100% highly engaged colleagues?

"I ran an engagement programme recently with a business who have a group of high potential individuals they really wanted to foster and work on.

"It was interesting because we would have assumed that this group would already have really high engagement levels. But the results came back and it was only around 50% to 60%, so there's always room for improvement.

"But certainly aim for 100%!"

To discover more expertise from Claire see our full video interview.

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Summary: Create a Happier Workplace! Leadership, Employee Engagement & Working Culture With Claire Loftus

Our ProfileTree video interview with Claire Loftus of Evolve explores employee engagement, workplace happiness, employee satisfaction and leadership skills.

If you've discovered that the question 'How to motivate employees in the workplace' is an essential factory for your business, Claire's insights can help to develop the right plan to examine the employee satisfaction strategies open to you.

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