Maximizing Your Contribution

Making a difference for your organization is a bigger proposition that just performing on the job and meeting your production expectations.  Organizations care about things other than outputs, they care about how people "contribute" and make a larger difference.  This workshop will teach you how to find ways to maintain your performance AND make a larger difference.

Staying "In the ZONE"

In 2006, The Conference Board published "Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications". This report stated that twelve major studies on employee engagement had been published over the prior four years by top research firms such as Gallup, Towers Perrin and the Corporate Leadership Council. According to the report, there is a strong correlation between high levels of employee engagement and improved individual, group and corporate performance in areas such as retention, productivity, customer service and loyalty.  And this is not just by small margins.  While there were minor variations between studies, in general highly engaged employees outperform their disengaged counterparts by an impressive 20 - 28 percentage points!

This half-day workshop takes a unique approach to employee engagement by helping employees understand their current and expected Stage of Impact and how to more often utilize their unique talents and abilities in the course of getting their work done.  The Maximizing Your Engagement Workshop includes a benchmark Engagement Track assessment, development of an Engagement Action Plan and follow-up Engagement Track assessments to measure progress.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand your current engagement and identify specific actions to either get re-engaged in your work or maintain your current engagement.
2. Understand how the Stages of Impact and "In the ZONE" experiences are linked to drive increased performance and productivity.
3. Create your Engagement Action Plan to prepare for ongoing engagement discussions with your manager.

Target Audiences

• Employees at all levels who need to stay engaged in their work to maximize their impact and contribution to the organization.
• Managers who want to know how to have more engaged teams.

Workshop Outline

Module 1: The Engaged Experience

• Describe, through a group exercise, a present or past work assignment where participants really enjoyed their work.
• Identify what made this work assignment so enjoyable and link this to the power of being more engaged in work assignments.
• Describe the purpose of the workshop:  to help participants create more opportunities to be involved in highly engaged work.
• Review workshop objectives and agenda.

Module 2: "In The ZONE"

• Understand why doing highly engaging work is so important.
• Review the research on the impact of employees being highly engaged in their work.
• Understand each element of the ZONE Model of Engagement.
• Understand how The ZONE Model of Engagement can be the key to high levels of employee engagement.

Module 3: Staying In The ZONE

• Identify each participant's zeal and passions that can increase their own personal engagement.
• Document the zeal and passion in each participant's ZONE prescriptions.
• Identify the expectations that the organization has for each participant.
• Document the organizational expectations in each participant's ZONE prescriptions.
• Identify each participant's current and potential network of people in the organization who can leveraged to increase their own personal engagement.
• Document the current and potential network in each participant's ZONE prescriptions.
• Identify each participant's expertise that can increase their own personal engagement.
• Document the expertise in each participant's ZONE prescriptions.
• Review the Engagement Track Feedback report.
• Use the Engagement Track Feedback Report and ZONE prescriptions to create a personal Engagement Action Plan.
• Finalize the Engagement Action Plan and prepare for a post-workshop discussion with their manager.
  

Module 4:  Putting The ZONE Together

• Understand the process for tracking one's engagement after the workshop.
• Share their key learnings from the workshop with the group.
• Review the expectations and objectives of the workshop.
• Provide workshop feedback through the evaluation.