Human Resources
The Great Engagement: How HireLevel Helps
Oct 27, 2021
The Great Resignation.
Whether you roll out the red carpet for your team or your employee experience has never been top of mind, your people can leave and they will.
I’m here today to tell you that it’s not just you. Employee experience is in HireLevel’s Top 3 Focuses, and our people are leaving too. Depending on what source you read, 40-50% of our workforce is thinking about quitting and over 4 million people have already followed through on that, according to the Department of Labor.
What’s behind this mass exodus that the world is now calling The Great Resignation?
Sure, everyone’s enemy, Covid, was the trigger but…
What’s really going on that is giving people the confidence to JUST QUIT?
—> There are 9.2 million jobs open. It’s the simple concept of supply & demand.
—> No more geographic barriers. Companies that only hired where they had physical locations are now hiring the best talent and they can sit anywhere.
—> People who didn’t thrive in an office, social setting perhaps due to different abilities now have new doors open for them.
—> Companies have new roles that they’ve never had before.
—> More companies are offering what I like to call extreme flexibility to meet the demand of talent they want to attract and retain, from schedules to PTO and child care assistance benefits are becoming individualized.
—> Money! Pay rates are rising rapidly across the board and the biggest companies are just saying yes when it comes to negotiations.
People are leaving for skill development and opportunity. They are seeking fulfillment and flexibility. Now more than ever, they are less and less attached to their companies.
45% of our teams feel disconnected and therefore not invested. Lack of connection is making it easier to move on to the next thing.
“Here’s my notice” can be a very contagious phrase but so can “I got promoted!” and “HiFive Team! Great job today!
I would argue while The Great Resignation is a very real thing so can be The Great Engagement.
Where we invest our focus is what will thrive. So I propose, let’s stop wasting time talking about the Great Resignation and start focusing on turning it into the Great Engagement.
HireLevel will roll out the red carpet to help you take your team from Recruitment to Retirement as you employ, enable, and empower them.
To be able to meet the needs of today’s workforce, we must focus on engaging them by intentionally driving connections! It’s all about experience and how you make them feel.
What does the Great Engagement look like?
—> Empowering employees to expand relationships across the organization
—> Growing careers
—> Fostering transparency and fairness in opportunities
—> Creating shared moments and celebrations.
It’s interviewing from wherever they are, skills development, career pathing, flexibility at the individual level, and opportunities to know and to collaborate with team members and goals across the organization, outside of their team. When people are closely connected, they are invested.
Traditionally, we collaborate with those we are around the most. We are naturally exclusive. Today’s workforce is calling us to be geographically inclusive! By doing so, we can increase efficiency and drive results as diverse skill sets and perspectives come together toward the same goal. This is the Great Engagement that will put the Great Resignation to bed.
So, how do we do it? How do we get there?
One of my team members was at a conference this week and sat in a Keynote with Erica Dhawan on the concept of Connectional Intelligence to get “big things done,” regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you do.
Where you are with your people technology will determine whether you are able to keep up with today’s demand to create physical and digital spaces that engage and promote connectivity and simultaneously, productivity!
Instant messaging, digital timekeeping, virtual meetings, and document sharing are not enough to put you on the path to The Great Engagement.
We are rolling out the red carpet on the path to The Great Engagement.
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How We Help
HireLevel’s Human Capital Management Solution allows you to put people not paperwork at center stage. Our engagement platform equips your team with the tools they need for easy, on demand employee self-service beyond time & pay and onto cross-team collaboration.
Do you have the people technology in place to end the Great Resignation and drive engagement and performance?
Will you be able to reach your goals if you don’t?
Having one solution and one partner for your entire employee experience is possible. At HireLevel, we unify recruitment and applicant tracking, onboarding, benefits administration, learning management, engagement and performance management, expense management and much more to stop the Great Resignation and help our clients grow from the inside out.
Whether you have 5 or 500 team members, we can tailor a solution to ENGAGE & RETAIN YOUR TEAM!
People power your business, and we are here to power yours.
