Often you see managers or companies throwing benefits at employees in the hope that one of them will work. They may in the short term but in the long term it is often the things you take away that matter most. Just think of ground breaking products like the Walkman (showing my age!) it's value was the LACK of speakers - the convenience, what about drive thru's - it was taking away the waiters that was the breakthrough, think iPOD - it was the taking away of the storage of 1000's of CD's.
My point is that in companies we often need to take things away to gain employee engagement....I have gathered a list of what people have said they want TAKING AWAY to help employee engagement, here are a few
- Confusion
- Mixed messages
- One rule for them another for us
- Them and us mentality
- Bureaucracy
- Email overload with the cover my **** sticker attached
- Strict working hours - 9 to 5 or nothing
- Constantly changing strategic plans (that are actually more day to day tactics!)
- Stress
- Promotion for people who do not portray the values
Powerful list. To add to the employee experience it is often not adding but removing!
