{"id":253,"date":"2020-07-03T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-06-09T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:20:13","slug":"what-about-your-informal-employee-engagement-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/what-about-your-informal-employee-engagement-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"What about your \u201cInformal Employee Engagement Tools?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have the tools in place (software tools) to successfully drive employee engagement on an \u201cinformal basis?<\/p>\n<p>By Formal we refer to this capture as a semi or annual review or feedback session. Commonly referred to as Performance Management \u2013 it is an important part of the human resource role \u2013 making sure employees are measured given the appropriate feedback. And of course this performance management process often impacts raises, promotions, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However what about the informal aspects of the employee engagement process?<\/p>\n<p>We define &#8220;<strong>informal&#8221; <\/strong>feedback as the \u201cother 200 days?\u201d\u00a0 Why do we term this \u201cinformal&#8221;?\u00a0 By informal we are referring to the daily actions that are not being formally recorded outside of emails being sent or hallway conversations (feedback sessions) that are not being formally captured.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is no particular right or wrong answer to question poised in this Blog Post. Companies approach employee engagement in many ways. However many of today\u2019s tools are designed for more &#8220;<strong>formal&#8221; <\/strong>capture and feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The informal days or just as important and the \u201cformal\u201d days (evaluation periods) for driving employee engagement.\u00c2\u00a0 And many would argue that in certain industries (services for example) the providing feedback and reviews for the informal days are more important then the formal semi or annual reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our research and feed back from companies that deploy systems for managing, capturing the daily feedback and Recognition for employee that this \u201cinformal\u201d area is a huge opportunity for companies to significantly impact the overall performance of their employee population. And impact revenue and customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have the tools in place (software tools) to successfully drive employee engagement on an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgvision.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}