How Might We Fully Engage Our Employees

This week my guest is Saima Arfeen, she has a decade of banking experience and working as an L&D freelancer in the UAE.

Saima discusses some key questions around employee engagement, what is it, and the nature of relationships between employees and the organisation.  

• 2:07 The emotional connection
• 2:54 The three types of employees and your boat
• 5:02 Crucial why we need to retain talent post COVID
• 5:33 Leadership and empathy
• 6:05 Wellbeing and engagement
• 7:24 Leadership need to sit down and actually talk to individuals
• 8:25 Impact of engagement of profitability
• 9:39 Fairness and positive behaviours
• 12:34 Moving away from tick box to walking the walk
• 15:26 The role of trust in employee engagement
• 18:06 Trust and remote working
• 20:44 How do you engage employees at an individual level?
• 24:00 The paradox of engagement being important, but little time is spent on it
• 27:22 Putting a man on the moon
• 29:18 Employees come first
• 30:52 Organisational DNA

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