Management Game Changer - Employee Engagement Apps

Is your company ready to take the employee engagement to a new level?  Engagement apps are the new relationship builder for employees and managers. 

Employee engagement continues to be a struggle for many employers and managers find themselves being reactive instead of proactive.  In an article, Feedback Is The Killer App: A New Market and Management Model Emerges, Josh Bersin describes this low employee engagement.  “Gallup tells us that only about 1/3 of employees are actively engaged, Glassdoor data shows an average engagement of a C+ (3.1 out of 5), and Quantum Workplace believes engagement is at its lowest level in eight years”.  Introducing a feedback app will create a new engagement opportunity for your employees!  Most employers work diligently to create an ideal workplace environment.  Even with implemented improvements, employee’s rank their employers in the form of a traditional bell curve.  Some are terrible, some are great, but most land somewhere in the middle.

An ideal tool:

Engagedly is a new app that will redefine your business.  They advertise as “the most comprehensive tool available to drive employee engagement”.  The Engagedly platform offers tools that include manager feedback, idea generation, knowledge sharing and learning, peer praise, rewards and social performance.  It is an ideal app to strengthen the company’s engagement. 

Is this really needed and will it work?

Absolutely!  The workforce is changing which requires managers and HR professionals to adapt to different ways of engaging their employees.  No longer is an annual performance appraisal possible.  The new, upcoming workforce has always had instant feedback and expects the same from their job environment.  Research has shown that employees and managers want feedback and the more frequent, the better.  If they do not receive any feedback, they worry about what people are saying, wonder whether their future is secure or even if they’re doing a good job. 

A word of caution from Dr. Karissa Thacker, a Delaware-based workplace psychologist, “It is critical that human resource leaders be proactive in developing rules of engagement regarding instant feedback apps.  The rules need to be developed through a partnership of business leaders and HR function.”  Most managers have been there, realizing they should have been proactive instead of reactive.  Save yourself some hassle and don’t assume that employees or other managers will simply govern themselves, set down ground rules before you implement.

How easy can we implement this?

So easy, an HR professional can do this!  No IT needed – although it’s a great idea to get your IT department involved!  Engagedly offers IT support for those that do not have an individual IT department.  The software is a web-based application that takes only a few hours, not weeks to implement and begin to use.  Software is added to desktop computers, smartphones or tablets and as long as the user has internet access, they can check their performance anywhere, anytime.  Engagedly comes loaded with employee tracking features, ways to set goals and foster teamwork.  With views for employees, managers and HR professionals, it has a user-friendly, easy-to-use dashboard. 

The cost of feedback, worthwhile?

Engaging employees from a management or human resources perspective cannot be quantified with a specific number, although the accounting department will require one!  Engagedly comes with reasonable price-tag.  For the basic plan the cost is $5 per user per month.  The premier plan costs $8 per user per month.  For large companies, this cost would be too burdensome, and many of these larger businesses are integrating their own, self-made feedback software.  GE, as an example, has created a unique app called PD@GE.  Depending on the size of the business, costs can vary, although strengthening employee engagement offers additional benefits that cannot be measured with money.

Engagedly is the best of employee engagement applications available on the market today, especially for small to mid-sized companies.  Implementing this new feedback app lets you focus on issues as they happen.  The feedback is immediate which provides managers to tackle problems or issues as they arise and not need to wait until the information filters through the rumor mill. 

The management game is changing.  Managers who wish to create an ideal workplace where management and employees work hand in hand together and empower each other to strive for greatness, incorporates instant and constant feedback.  Engagedly is an application that will help make this a reality.