S03E17 The Disengaged Episode

SUMMARY:
In this episode, Vincent and Theresa chat about some Gallup data around employee engagement across the world. Who is actively disengaged at work? Who is not engaged? Who is engaged?

Check-In:

• What's at the top of your bucket list? 

Big Ideas:

• professional bucket list 
• the success race
• when we buy things to make us happy
• Connection between engagement and success
• Company tap into personal engagement
• Let people be engaged how they want to be engaged
• Lebanon - highest percentage of active disengagement
• Actively disengaged, not engaged, engaged 
• Sweden - lowest percentage of actively disengaged
• Mali - highest percentage of engagement
• Italy - lowest percentage of engagement
• Cultural implications of engagement - social expectations and relationship to success
• Social media and relationship to engagement 
• Engagement NOT connected to GDP
• Engagement levels have doubled in the last decade
• Covid-19 made people realize the importance of things other than work
• Choice of 5 day of disengaged employee, or 3 days of an engaged employee
• Ease in hiding your engagement in large companies
• Gallup 12 Questions:

1. I know what's expected of me
2. I have what I need to do my job
3. I can do what I do best
4. I get recognition at work
5. Someone cares for me at work
6. Someone encourages my development
7. My opinion seems to count
8. Mission and purpose of company
9. I see commitment to quality to work
10. I have a best friend at work
11. Someone talks to me about my progress with me
12. I can learn and grow

• When best friends at work keep you from being objective
• Cultural nuances around "best friends"
• Use questions like these concretely
• Engagement of entrepreneurs or in small companies is probably higher
• Would it make sense to break out large companies to improve engagement?
• Breaking up companies into pods
• If you have to make any decision, you have to find 2 other people to back you
• Create the conditions for collective intelligence
• A group is not a team
• Do work that we love and be engaged
• Are the younger generations less tolerant of corporate BS?

Resources:

• Book: The Success Myth by Emma Gannon
• Book: The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
• Gallup Poll Data: https://www.gallup.com/394373/indicator-employee-engagement.aspx
• Book: The 12 Elements of Great Managing
• Book: Humanocracy
• Podcast: Social Science Bites

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