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Why a new approach to employee engagement is essential for the innovation for sustained success

Competitive pressures and the pace of change make it essential for you to create a responsive and adaptable organisation. You are well aware that failure to manage change may precipitate the ultimate demise of your business and so you will not be surprised that innovation is another of the 5 essential capabilities of sustainability.

Of course innovation is very closely aligned with productivity improvement, but is perhaps less inward looking, taking in the elements of:    

• Market needs
• Products and services   
• Processes     
• Delivery

Innovation is once again a people dependent activity, and thus is impossible to deliver if you have disengaged employees.  Furthermore, you are only deluding yourself if you think that it is something that can be introduced top-down. Nor should it be entirely a management responsibility, because as managers you are:

• More divorced from the day-to-day operational issues
• More remote from your customers
• A small proportion of the people in your organisation
• Not the only ones blessed with creative abilities

Thus any effort to dictate or control innovation on your part can be counter-productive, and stifle the employee engagement essential for creativity and innovation. Thus here too it is reasonable to suggest that employee disengagement is likely to diminish creativity and innovation and increase your risk of failure or, at best, inhibit your longer-term sustained success. 

Consequently, it is equally reasonable to suggest that lack of innovation is a primary indicator of a lack of employee engagement.

The Zealise Assessment Programme (ZAP™) builds on this assumption. It helps you identify the key determinants of creativity and innovation that you are missing and thereby to assess the level of employee engagement in your organisation and the action you need to take to redress this, and enhance your sustainability. 

The Zealise Integrity Programme (ZIP™) helps you move beyond assessment into the remedy. Building from the premise that lack of creativity and innovation is a consequence of employee disengagement it logically concludes that improving employee engagement will inevitably resolve your lack of creativity and innovation problem. Thus by accounting for people as human assets and offering the option of universal, no-cost, no-equity employee ownership, it inspires corporate cultural transformation that embeds employee engagement and so stimulates the creativity and innovation needed for productivity improvements and improved customer service that creates a bottom-up force for continuous improvement, organisational integrity and hence your business sustainability. 

To create the organisational zeal to dramatically improve employee engagement and inspire the creativity and innovation that will transform your bottom line, download our FREE paper "How You Can Assess Employee Engagement Without Conducting An Employee Survey" now or simply contact us directly.