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Unnecessary Costs

Why a new approach to employee engagement will deliver significant cost savings

Poor employee engagement is a major cost to your business.

• Poor quality
• Poor customer service
• Missed deadlines
• High staff turnover
• Poor performance
• Industrial tension
• Ineffective performance related pay/incentive remuneration

These are all costs that can be directly attributable to employee disengagement. Often, however, you may not recognise them as such and so perhaps set about trying to redress them from the wrong basis. All too often you simply see them in their guise as operational costs and sometimes - as with incentive remuneration - you do not even recognise the hidden costs that are latent to your processes. 

The net result is that you focus your efforts on fixing symptoms rather than the causes of your waste. This can cause a double whammy effect, because:

• Your proposed solutions - however well meant - are incomplete
• You can effectively duplicate initiatives to address what is fundamentally a single problem
• Employee disengagement undermines the effectiveness of your efforts anyway - if the proposed remedy does not actually exacerbate employee disengagement.   

We see these as all being the hidden costs of poor employee engagement and consequently believe that remedying the problem of employee disengagement will go a considerable way to eliminating these avoidable costs. It will likely also save you considerable time, effort and cost trying to implement specific solutions. This will transform performance and significantly improve bottom line results.  

Much employee disengagement has its roots in traditional top down, command and control management. Nobody likes being told what to do, so top down management breeds resentment and stifles initiative and pride, particularly if remedial efforts imply criticism of the original work - as they all too often do.

Thus the Zealise Integrity Programme - ZIP™ - inverts your traditional - and all-too-often frustratingly unsuccessful - approach, and comes at the problem from a completely different perspective. This encourages your people to find the solutions to their own problems and to feel they are truly "making a difference" and so is far more likely to eliminate the haemorrhaging of these costs and add the difference to your bottom line.

To learn how you can transform your business to improve your bottom line and build sustainability, download our FREE paper "How You Can Assess Employee Engagement Without Conducting An Employee Survey" now or simply contact us directly.