Professor William’s webinar explains why ‘best practice’ engagement practices are not working

Less than 25% of employees worldwide are actively engaged, says Professor William Scott-Jackson, Chairman of Oxford Strategic Consulting. According to the Professor, companies are trying to engage their employees in all of the wrong ways.

Companies across the globe are looking towards more engaged employees to compete in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Our research found, for example that the top 25% of companies with the most engaged people produced twice as much profit and 22% higher shareholder returns than the companies with the least engaged people.

We found that engagement is mainly impacted by three factors: work environment and conditions, the immediate leader/team and the individual’s innate enthusiasm and positivism. Interestingly, an employee’s work environment is the least important factor in determining high levels of engagement.

Companies can do more to increase employee engagement by focusing on new ways of helping leaders and helping their people to become more positive in their whole lives. Current leadership development is often too much, too late and the webinar will demonstrate radical new ways to help leaders to lead – critical for boosting engagement levels. At the individual level, Then Professor will outline the latest advances in helping people to become more positive – in and outside work.

Professor Scott-Jackson’s upcoming webinar lecture, ‘Precision Engagement: A Continuous Process’, will explain how these new techniques can really help organisations to achieve world-beating engagement levels. The lecture is part of the Employee Engagement Webinar: Predictive Analytics & Metrics webinar on Wednesday, September 10.

The Oxford-based professor also serves as Chairman of Oxford Strategic Consulting, an Oxford and GCC based Consultancy with an enviable track record in helping to build human capital across the GCC and in Europe. OSC carries out advanced research and high–impact consultancy, working with major private and government organizations to help them achieve their key strategic objectives, such as employee engagement issues.