Zealise Integrity Programme - Your "Morale Code"

Maximise your employee engagement through no-cost, no-equity employee ownership

The Zealise Integrity Programme (ZIP ™)  is a powerful attitude converter and behaviour transformer that inspires enthusiasm and energy and breakthrough cultural change. It offers a unique new method to create employee ownership that engenders the highest possible level of employee engagement. It values the integrity of your people and the vital contribution they make to your business, permanently changing attitudes and shaping behavioural change. This cements the 5 essentail capabilities for your survival, sustainability and ultimate prosperity, and in doing so, embeds employee engagement into your organisational DNA.

Employee engagement is not something you can impose. You create it through an "us" or "we" culture that replaces a "you" culture. This creates the organisational integrity to "future-proof" your business and build a platform of sustainability on which you thrive, not just survive, regardless of the economic situation or what the future brings. And what better way is there to create an "us" culture than to make employees co-owners of the business?

Cost vs. Value

As a business leader you are an investor. You expect to make a return on all you spend. Thus you will happily continue to expend money so long as you anticipate a greater return. This principle applies equally to your people costs: for all you spend on your people you will expect to earn more.

The corollary to this is that your people actually have a greater value than their cost. Yet somehow you often forget this, and focus your attention more on their cost. 

The Zealise Integrity Programme redresses this and - by valuing your people as human assets - ensures you look at the value rather than the cost of your people. This helps you to manage your people better and at the same time makes them feel more more appreciated. As being appreciated is one of the primary motivators and a key to happiness, this is a major factor in building your employee engagement.

Employee Engagement vs. Employee Ownership

The highest level of employee engagement occurs when the employee is an owner of the business and acts that way. That is why employee-owned businesses almost invariably outperform their competitors. It is also why employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) have become so popular. Unfortunately, ESOPs seldom meet expectations, mainly because they don't often fully meet the "us" test.

As you are all too well aware, ESOPS and share options are:

• Legally complex
• An administrative burden
• Not always (seldom?) perceived as fair
• Less relevant when shares cannot be freely traded
• Ineffective for lower paid people for whom cash is king

Consequently it is difficult if not impossible for you to instil a genuine sense of employee ownership, especially if you have a traditional command and control culture.

An innovative solution for employee ownership 

The Zealise Integrity Programme overcomes all these shortcomings and creates a solution that accounts for your people as Human Capital and:

 

• Offers a powerful alternative to ESOPs and creates employee ownership at no cost to either the company or the individual
• Powers your cultural transformation
• Embeds entrepreneurship in the way employee share ownership plans were originally intended to
• Creates the employee engagement that engenders a corporate culture of continuous improvement that integrates and delivers the 5 capabilities of sustainability.

Why you need ZIP ™ 

Put the other way, if your employees are not engaged you will always be at risk because there will always be a possibility of being taken unawares by changing circumstances. Like a chain, your organisation is only as strong as its weakest element. Employee disengagement is more contagious than rust and corrodes the entire structure and so exacerbates your risk.

The Zealise Integrity Programme helps you prevent such corrosion. It embeds employee engagement into your organisational DNA, creating a permanent structure that cannot be manipulated and that substantially reduces the inherent weaknesses of traditional incentive remuneration or performance related pay schemes and inspires greater collaboration for the best long term interests of your business.

What does ZIP ™ entail?

The Zealise Integrity Programme is essentially a cultural change initiative. As such it is imperative that you drive it yourself. That means it is not a consulting solution. Rather its a collaborative effort to create and build a platform of shared values that reinforces personal integrity and cements organisational integrity. As such it needs to be run like any other change management project and entails:-

• Obtaining sponsorship and visible commitment from the very top
• Communicating the objectives and getting buy-in from all levels of the organisation
• Collaborating to develop and agree the fundamental rules
• Designing and developing the relevant processes
• Developing, testing and implementing the systems to support the processes
• Ongoing monitoring and refining of the system to optimise its effectiveness.  

To find out more about this pioneering human capital management solution and how you can engender and embed employee engagement to build the alignment and teamwork that ensures your organisational integrity and dramatically improves your results and reduces your risks and thereby ensures your sustainability, simply contact us directly.

 

Alternatively, if you are not sure you have an employee engagement problem and/or you need to undertake a cost-benefit exercise to convince yourselves that you need it, then download your FREE guide How You Can Assess Employee Engagement Without Conducting An Employee Survey now. 

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