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S03E17 The Disengaged Episode

Theresa Destrebecq & Vincent Musolino Season 3 Episode 17

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SUMMARY:
In this episode, Vincent and Theresa chat about some Gallup data around employee engagement across the world. Who is actively disengaged at work? Who is not engaged? Who is engaged?

Check-In:

  • What's at the top of your bucket list? 


Big Ideas:

  • professional bucket list 
  • the success race
  • when we buy things to make us happy
  • Connection between engagement and success
  • Company tap into personal engagement
  • Let people be engaged how they want to be engaged
  • Lebanon - highest percentage of active disengagement
  • Actively disengaged, not engaged, engaged 
  • Sweden - lowest percentage of actively disengaged
  • Mali - highest percentage of engagement
  • Italy - lowest percentage of engagement
  • Cultural implications of engagement - social expectations and relationship to success
  • Social media and relationship to engagement 
  • Engagement NOT connected to GDP
  • Engagement levels have doubled in the last decade
  • Covid-19 made people realize the importance of things other than work
  • Choice of 5 day of disengaged employee, or 3 days of an engaged employee
  • Ease in hiding your engagement in large companies
  • Gallup 12 Questions:
  1. I know what's expected of me
  2. I have what I need to do my job
  3. I can do what I do best
  4. I get recognition at work
  5. Someone cares for me at work
  6. Someone encourages my development
  7. My opinion seems to count
  8. Mission and purpose of company
  9. I see commitment to quality to work
  10. I have a best friend at work
  11. Someone talks to me about my progress with me
  12. I can learn and grow
  • When best friends at work keep you from being objective
  • Cultural nuances around "best friends"
  • Use questions like these concretely
  • Engagement of entrepreneurs or in small companies is probably higher
  • Would it make sense to break out large companies to improve engagement?
  • Breaking up companies into pods
  • If you have to make any decision, you have to find 2 other people to back you
  • Create the conditions for collective intelligence
  • A group is not a team
  • Do work that we love and be engaged
  • Are the younger generations less tolerant of corporate BS?


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