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Strategically Building a Corporate Culture of Employee Engagement,

Loyalty, & Happiness

Steve NailVP of Human ResourcesHubbell Lighting, Inc.

It’s time to go to work!

It’s Tuesday Morning!

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This presentation will explore:

How to create a positive corporate culture through the alignment of HR goals and business objectives

How to engage employees to create a loyal and happy workforce

How HR gains organizational credibility and value

Two Agendas Working As One!

Employees Want…

Great Benefits

Development

Competitive

Wages

Job Security

Challenging

Work

Managers who

care

Recognition

Flexibility

Clear Work

Requirement

Friendly

Environment

Career

Advancement

Knowledge

Growth

Companies Want…

High Profit

Margins

More for

Less

Top Talent

Competitive

Edge

Flexibility

Problem free

environment

Lower costs

Strategic Human Resources Management

A method for combining the agenda of the company and the agenda of the employee through specific practices and initiatives to create a workforce that is maximally productive while cultivating a culture where employees are engaged and excited about work.

Workforce Facts

51% of workforce is comprised of women (71%) of them have children

Life time job has been replaced with a life time job search

Men work on average 48.2 hrs per week and women 41.4

1 in 4 employees regularly works at least one weekend day

80% of couples are employed outside of the home

67% of parents say they don’t have enough time for their children

63% of employees say they don’t have enough time for their spouse

55% of employees say they don’t have enough time for themselves

72% of employees say they are willing to put their career on the back burner for their family

10,000 retirements each day as boomers leave the workforce

Facts for the 4 Generations that currently comprise the US

workforce Silent's- 5% (‘33-’45)

Boomer’s- 39% (‘46-’64)

Millennial’s- 35%(‘77-’98)

X’ers- 21% (‘65-’76)

All want to make a difference and challenging work

All will leave a bad boss and for lack of appreciation

Fundamentals to a Loyal and Happy Workforce

Recruiting

Excellence Breeds Excellence

Recruiting Help Managers to Understand the Vision

of the position

Make sure candidates/ employees understand the mission and values

Hire the right people (there are tools to help you do this)

Promote Internally (internal job posting is a wonderful tool)

Internship Program is a good tool


Morale

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." ~ G.B. Stern

Morale

How often is thank you said to employees and how many different ways is it said?

Hold events often, involve senior management

Identify and eliminate the toxic


Succession

Planning

Succession Planning

Identify your corporate needs

Identify the employees for succession (particularly high pots) and any gaps that exist for development

Communicate to those employees on the succession plan

Follow the plan

Annual updates and reviews

But in the real world…


Training and

Development

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

Training and Development

Identify your key needs not HR feel good training

Mentor your high potential employees

Try and offer training to every level of employee in order that they

understand the company wants them to

grow their skills so they can

grow within the organization


Continuous

Improvement

Continuous Improvement

Conduct an employee survey on a regular basis

Identify key areas of improvement

Communicate

Take action!

Communicate

Keep Survey’s Confidential…


Flexible and

Consistent

Policies

Flexible and Consistent Policies

Create policies that take personal lives into consideration

Employees will work harder for employers who show a true concern about their lives away from work

Don’t think about why something can’t be done, but rather how it can be

done

Execute

Measure

Plan

Summary

Hire the Best

Eliminate the toxic

Value your employees

Develop and Train your employees

Identify and Mentor your top talent

Measure Results

Summary

Can what we’ve talked about today be aligned

with your organization’s objectives to create a

positive corporate culture?

Will what we talked about today engage

employees and help create a loyal and happy

workforce?

Will what we’ve talked about give credibility and

value to the HR function

If so…

Waking up isn’t so bad after all…

Questions??

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