The Harvard Business Review has cited “recognition given for high performance” as the most impactful driver of employee engagement and The Aberdeen Group has found the number one way Best-in-Class organizations improve employee engagement is through employee-recognition programs. Meanwhile, most employees today feel overworked and underappreciated and are less valued and more stressed for their efforts than ever before. Based on their most recent books, Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies (Dr. Bob) and Triggers (Dr. Goldsmith) this webinar will help you cut through the clutter in determining how best to engage your employees. Dr. Bob will help you understand the link between employee recognition and engagement and how to make that connection in your organization -- even with limited time, resources or budget and Dr. Goldsmith will discuss the need for organizations to shift the focus to employees to be responsible for their own level of engagement. Both will show how the best companies take a focused and long-term strategic view of their employee resource that systematically integrates the engagement practices into the daily work practices of all individuals, managers and employees, identifying and acting on opportunities in timely and specific ways. This session will be filled with specific real-life examples and techniques that can be immediately applied back on the job by attendees to systematically leverage, build and sustain a culture of recognition and engagement in their workplace.
Bob Nelson is considered the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, motivation and engagement. He is president of Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training and consulting company that specializes in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs and systems. Dr. Bob serves as an Executive Strategist for HR Issues and has been named as a Top Thought Leader by the Best Practice Institute. He has worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and has presented on six continents. He has been frequently featured in the national media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, CNBC, PBS & NPR on how best to motivate today’s employees. He has sold over 4 million books on management and motivation, including 1501 Ways to Reward Employees, which recently went into its 62nd printing; 1001 Ways to Energize Employees; The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook; The Management Bible; and his latest book, Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies. He received a BA in psychology from Macalester College; an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley; and earned his PhD in management education with the late, great Dr. Peter Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management,” at The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management School of the Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles where he did his doctoral dissertation on “Factors That Encourage or Inhibit the Use of Employee Recognition by U.S. Managers.” He teaches for the MBA program at the Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego, California.
Marshall Goldsmith is the world’s authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting behavior. He was recognized as the world’s #1 Leadership Thinker as well as the #5 Most Influential Business Thinker in the World at the 2015 Thinkers50 ceremony in London. Goldsmith was a pioneer in the use of customized 360-degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool. He helped to create the field of 'executive coaching' and has consistently been ranked as the top executive coach in the world today by numerous sources. He is one of the few executive advisors who has been asked to work with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. He was elected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources – and recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development. The American Management Association has recognized him as one of 50 great thinkers and business leaders who have impacted the field of management over the past 80 years. While serving as a board member of the Peter Drucker Foundation, Goldsmith co-edited his first book, The Leader of the Future and has since authored or co-edited 35 books, including New York Times bestsellers What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Mojo, and his latest book, the #1 bestseller, Triggers. He has been profiled in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Business Strategy Review. He received a degree in mathematical economics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; an MBA from Indiana University; and a PhD from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California. He teaches for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
