Employee Engagement Quotes:

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

- Seth Godin

topic: Appreciation, Culture, Employee Engagement, Urgent

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Mean, Whole Person, Employee Engagement

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it...

- Jack Welch

topic: Running, Appreciation, Believe, Motivate Employees, Drive And Success

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

- Douglas Conant

source: Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

topic: Appreciation, Winning, Firsts, Top Management, Motivate Employees

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

- Simon Sinek

topic: People, Return, Want, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

- Timothy R. Clark

topic: Break, Employee, Customer Experience, Motivate Employees, Employee Engagement

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Creativity, Heart, Hands, Top Management, Motivate Employees

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

- Ian Hutchinson

topic: Leadership, Engagement, Privilege, Employee Engagement

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

- Sam Walton

topic: Leadership, Praise, Sincere, Inspiring Business, Leadership Teamwork

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

- Marilyn C. Nelson

topic: Appreciation, People, Strive, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

- Frances Hesselbein

topic: Unmotivated, World, Employee, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

- Paul Hawken

topic: Lines, Bottom, Employee Engagement

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Appreciation, Business, Opportunity, Employee Engagement

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Appreciation, Jobs, Interesting, Motivate Employees, Employee Appreciation

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

- Peter Senge

topic: Appreciation, Focus, Snapshots, Learning Organization, Systems Thinking

Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

- Ian Hutchinson

topic: Numbers, People, Looks, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Work, Kind, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

- Jack Welch

topic: Winning, Healthy, Doubt, Employee Engagement, Customer Satisfaction

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

- Sam Walton

source: Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

topic: Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building, Inspiring Business, Walmart

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

- Mary Kay Ash

source: Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

topic: Life, Friendship, Thank You, Employee Engagement, Employee Recognition

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Friendship, Making Friends, Influencing People

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

- Charles R. Schwab

topic: Leadership, Encouragement, Appreciation, Love And Appreciation, Employee Appreciation

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Jobs, Organization, People, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Being Bored, Motivate Employees

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Real, Decision, Rebel, Supervisors, Cascade

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Leadership, Style, Engagement, Leadership Style, Organizational Structure

This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

- Marco Rubio

source: Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Country, World, Employee Engagement