Problem: The top 50 corporations in the USA are losing US$50 billion annually.
Reason: Poor strategy implementation due to pervasive employee stagnation.
Question? How much do you think your organization is losing?
Solution:Start with your Leadership Teams - ensure alignment in their beliefs, understanding, and commitment to your organisation's Vitality and success.
Vitalize Strategic Learning Core Skills
“What’s in it for me?”
The sludge of employee stagnation and malaise is everywhere. To cut through this inertia, Critical Core Skills need to be introduced to your organization.
Critical Core Skills are essential, requiring continuous communication and collaboration.
It is no longer sufficient for an organization to solely provide intermittent training for a disparate set of employees. To truly engage its employees, each organization must be able to combine training and Universal Mentoring within each function, then support them with Progress Tracking and encourage with Integrated Incentives.
Vitalize Issue Resolution and Problem-Solving
Four key reasons for employee stagnation are:
- A lack of timely problem resolution;
- A lack of process training to solve problems;
- A lack of permission to solve problems; and,
- Poor manager accountability in solving problems.
Our process for problem analysis and solution can be customized for any organization, right down to a departmental level.
Learning Vitalize Issue Resolution & Problem-Solving as a Critical Core Skill, enables employee participation in problem-solving anytime, anywhere.
Dynamic Delegation
Delegation is only appropriate for those with either the authority, the staff, or the budget. Right?
Wrong. Vitalize Your Workforce turns the traditional concept of delegation on its head, into a Critical Core Skill of planned task transfer and cross-training across the organization.
Systematic delegation combined with a process oversight, helps to:
- Relieve stagnation in every one’s job;
- Enable continual learning; and,
- Encourage mentoring, communication, and collaboration.
When applied with content tracking and mentoring for career development and reward, Dynamic Delegation becomes a very clear employee reminder of “What’s in it for me?”
Universal Mentoring
“Mentoring is a perk for the selected few”.
With Vitalize Your Workforce, mentoring becomes possible for everybody as a new Critical Core Skill available across your entire organization.
Receiving and providing mentoring are both learned skills that demand increased communication and collaboration. Everybody needs mentoring at some point and the areas for mentoring are practically unlimited.
Mentoring is universally appreciated and has high personal value, so employees will be assured of their importance to your organization.
Activating Appreciation
In our experience, appreciation is the #1 wish of most employees.
In practice though, appreciation tends to be a fleeting thought or gesture with little by way of sincerity, tangible follow-up, or longevity.
True appreciation involves:
- Recognition;
- Acceptance;
- Self-esteem; and,
- Confidence.
Vitalize Your Workforce introduces a new paradigm to recognize this: Appreciation Files.
Appreciation Files belong to the employee – they help balance the often clandestine and sinister nature of “HR files” by linking appreciation with new initiatives for recognition and celebration, while supporting the employee’s personal career and ambitions.
Meaningful Recognition and Celebration
Organizations often talk about “recognition” and “celebration” for their employees, but in practice, do very little (if nothing) about them.
Hence, these recognition and celebration are regarded are “nice-to-have”, but tend to be poorly provided being considered an unnecessary expense.
Vitalize Your Workforce transforms these qualities into viable and cost-effective ways of providing lasting meaningful employee support.
Integrated Incentives
Most employee incentives are geared around a once-a-year Annual Review. This is a one-stop shop; the only occasion when any incentives (both financial and non-financial) or career advancement are ever discussed.
However, employees generally regard this process with distrust, mindful that salary increases are biased toward higher levels, and that promotions tend to be rare and preselected.
So why even bother?
Vitalize Your Workforce introduces a new paradigm to supplement this process with a program clearly addressing “What’s in it for me?” – a program offering continual opportunity reward based on employee choice and initiative.
Progress Tracking
Employee Progress Tracking is a process to stay current with employee interest and personal initiative to learn more, do more, contribute more.
It is an employee participation record that helps employees feel acknowledged, their effort respected, and that their time and personal expansion is important.
When employees are ready to learn more, and want to contribute more to the organization, so are you. This tool is linked with Vitality Leadership, Strategic Learning, and the Vitalize Integrated Incentive Program.
New experiential opportunity is now an earned reward, enabling employees to gain progressive learning and experience at their own speed, any time. It is their choice, and you are ready!
