Creating a positive work culture and employee engagement

 

CEOs – ondeveloping the most rewarding and inspiring work environment “Our CEO group is committed to leadership excellence. They meet regularly to share new knowledge onoptimizing their companies, enhancing the experiences of their customers, as well as their employees, and building their leadership skills,” Jay Holstine said. Holstine chairs a CEO peer group in Dallas TX. The members are selected from non-competingindustries and share advice and experiences to help optimize each member’s leadership and success. “What employees really need in order to find purpose andsatisfaction in their day to day work was a primary topic of our recent workshop,” Holstine said. “The last two years, especially, has brought dramaticchanges in the workplace: Not just Howwe work, but Where we work, and Why we work,” Holstine shared. “Today’s employees have different expectations from “work,”research shows,” Holstine said. “In someways, employees require less from the company, but in other more abstract ways, they expect more, and this was our focus,” Holstine shared. “Leaders are workingon creating the most effective workplace for their type of employees and company, as they ensure that their engagement with and contributions to their community are what they intend,” Holstine said. “CEO members the shared some of the new expectations amongtoday’s workforce. Primarily, employeesare seeking a sense of fulfillment and purpose from their daily work, and from their employment with the company as a whole,” Holstine said. “While the concept of meaningful, worthwhile work has alwaysbeen a general objective of most companies, our CEO members now realize that it is even more important to expand and highlight the ways in which their company provides an atmosphere where employees are finding fulfillment and meaning in their work,” Holstine added. “Most of today’s employees rate ‘fulfillment at work, andfrom work’ to be highly important, and would consider leaving a current role, or taking less pay for a more fulfilling role. The CEO members said that new data on the even greater importance thattoday’s employees place on this aspect of their work inspires them to reemphasize some of their programs more specific to this, and also to expand other efforts,” Holstine said. See More.