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We were recently joined by Sara Gomez, Chief People Officer, to discuss how she worked with ENGAGE to enhance the strategic value of engagement and deliver value through smart analytics and predictive insights during her time at Lloyd's (the world’s leading insurance market), Direct Line Group (one of the country’s largest insurance firms), and Moss (one of the UK’s top menswear retailers) as well as at a fast-growth fin-tech. To read about the key takeaways from the discussion, see below: Link: https://lnkd.in/eSaxG_te #Engagement #Performance #Insights #People

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) represent significant milestones in a company’s journey. However, with this comes a period of uncertainty and change for many employees. Maintaining employee engagement, motivation, and involvement throughout the M&A process is pivotal to ensuring a smooth transition and, sustaining trust and commitment as a new entity emerges. This can impact everything from maintaining productivity, talent retention, morale, trust and client service delivery. Many employees face uncertainty, communication gaps, a misalignment of their leaders, amidst a number of other factors. Read more below on the importance of employee engagement through the M&A process. Also refer to our other blogs in this series covering effective leadership and cultural integration throughout M&A’s: Link: https://lnkd.in/ejmjCRPK

Huge thank you to Sara Gomez for coming into the ENGAGE offices last week to talk through her experiences working with us during her time at Lloyd's, Direct Line Group & Moss on all things employee engagement. We’ll be releasing an overview of the discussion and the full recording on our website soon, so do stay tuned for that! #Employeeengagement #Engagement #Lloyds

24 hours to go…! It’s now just one day until our webinar with Sara Gomez, Chief People Officer at Lloyd's’s of London, about how we have utilised employee engagement as a strategic business tool at Lloyd’s, Direct Line Group and Moss. Register now to reserve your place on Zoom 👇 https://lnkd.in/eFaKgEgQ

Here at ENGAGE, we really don’t think engagement is rocket science. You just need to ask the right questions – which are very simple. We ask business leaders: 1.     Engagement for what? How do we create better alignment between the way we understand engagement and the business strategy and ambition we are pursuing? 2.     Engagement with what? How can we define and measure the right employee behaviours and mindset in your organisation that captures for leaders and employees what it means to be playing their part? 3.     Engagement through what? How can we better understand the drivers of engagement through a more holistic understanding of the employee experience that encompasses both the strategic and tactical enablers? Once you start asking the right questions, the results will follow. Over the next few months, we will be exploring this in more detail. What does engagement look like when used as a strategic tool to improve performance, rather than just a survey metric? Read more on moving from a tactical engagement survey to a strategic engagement programme below 👇 Link: https://lnkd.in/eKVEVYta

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often viewed as financially compelling endeavours. However, the intangible factors, such as culture, are often not given enough attention. Cultural fit is described as a critical success factor in company integration by a staggering 95% of organisations (McKinsey & Company 2019). However, one in four state that a lack of cultural cohesion and alignment is the top reason that integration efforts fail to succeed; particularly with cross-border and international mergers that are combining fundamentally different ways of working. Common challenges that we come across with our clients are culture clashes, resistance to change and identity crises amongst employees. To combat these issues, ENGAGE supports clients through conducting cultural assessments, engaging leaders as well as fostering and monitoring employee engagement throughout the integration process. See below to read more on the topic and how ENGAGE can help. You can also refer to our previous blog in this series covering effective leadership. Furthermore, we will be covering how critical employee engagement is to the success of mergers and acquisitions. Link: https://lnkd.in/eu8JTwTj #Culture #Integration #Mergers #Acquisitions #Engagement

As a driver of business success, engagement is under-utilised. Not because business leaders haven't heard of it, but because very few ask the right questions of their engagement champions, people leaders and employees about what it actually means. Engagement is not a nice to have. It is essential if organisations are to unlock the potential people have to drive performance. But only when it is defined in a way that reflects the unique and differentiating people behaviours that power outcomes such as exceptional customer experiences, innovation, ownership of success, talent attraction and retention. If your people are engaged with their roles, your strategy and the wider mission of your company, results will follow. Listen to Sara Gomez, Lloyd's of London's Chief People Officer, this Thursday at 2 PM GMT, to see what it looked like when engagement was redefined at Lloyd's, Direct Line Group & Moss, in order to become a leadership priority, instead of an HR issue. Register now with the links below: Zoom Registration: https://lnkd.in/eFaKgEgQ Event Link: https://lnkd.in/dutg2zTW

Fantastic to see our client John Neal, Lloyd's CEO, meeting with the UK Prime Minister yesterday at The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), discussing how the private sector can work with governments to accelerate the transition to net zero. Over the past couple of years, through our work around leadership and engagement with Lloyd's, we've been lucky enough to learn a lot about how much both the organisation and the wider insurance industry is doing to help safeguard climate-vulnerable nations and act as capacity providers. Great to see our clients spearheading on such critical issues. #CHOGM2024 #Lloyds #Insurance #Netzero #PrimeMinister

Less than one week to go until our webinar with Sara Gomez, Chief People Officer at Lloyd's of London! When there is clear alignment in the way an organisation defines engagement, and the business outcomes it is trying to deliver, employee engagement becomes one of the most valuable, strategic business tools available to leaders. We have worked with Sara at Lloyd's, Direct Line Group and Moss to: - Redefine engagement by asking business leaders three key questions - Support leaders in tackling their engagement priorities - Deliver improved business outcomes Register now to reserve your place for our webinar next week on Thursday 31st October, 2PM GMT to learn how ENGAGE has worked with Sara on utilising engagement as a strategic business tool through a tailored approach, smart analytics and meaningful, actionable insights 👇 Event Link: https://lnkd.in/epZFJXfv Zoom Registration Link: https://lnkd.in/eFaKgEgQ