Maximised employee engagement through no-cost, no-equity employee ownership

Employee engagement is not something you can impose. It is something you create through an "us" or "we" culture rather than a "you" culture. This is essential if you are looking to "future-proof" your business and build a platform for sustained success and to 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?

The Zealise Integrity Programme - ZIP ™  is a powerful, breakthrough cultural transformation tool. It offers a unique new method to create employee ownership that engenders and embeds the highest possible level of employee engagement, permanently changing attitudes and shaping behavioural change. ZIP ™ values the integrity of your people and the vital contribution they make to your business, and so cements the 5 capabilities essential for your survival and the sustained success that safeguards your long-term prosperity.

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 the cost element. 

ZIP ™ redresses this and ensures that you look at the value rather than the cost of your people, and thus helps you to better manage your people 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 ownership amongst your employees, especially if you have a traditional command and control culture.

An innovative solution for employee ownership 

ZIP ™ overcomes all these shortcomings and creates a solution that:

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 team culture of continuous improvement that integrates and delivers the 5 capabilities you need for sustained success.

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, any organisation is only as strong as its weakest element. Disengagement is more contagious than rust and corrodes the entire structure and so exacerbates your risk.

ZIP ™ helps you prevent such corrosion. It creates 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.

Download the FREE paper Empowering Employee Engagement now, or simply contact us directly, to find out more about this pioneering human capital management solution and how you can engender and embed employee engagement to build your organisational alignment and teamwork to dramatically improve your results and reduce your risks and thereby ensure your sustained success.

 

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