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A relatively new concept known as Brand Personality potentially can help organizations create enhanced branding and engagement strategies. ... [ read more ]

Barb Hendrickson, incentive industry veteran, is selected by the Enterprise Engagement Alliance to create the industry's first "Brand Manual: A Guide to the Leading Brands Active in Gifts, Rewards & Recognition," designed to help companies select the most appropriate brands to better tell their stories through gifts, rewards, recognition, loyalty and affinity marketing programs.... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance will create a new education track on Enterprise Sales Engagement for Selling Power, the world’s leading sales management media platform, and the Engagement World Expo will move to Selling Power’s 3.0 Conference and Expo along with a new Brand Experience Pavilion, April 1-2 in San Francisco, followed by the EEA’s Enterprise Engagement in Action Conference: ISO Annex SL and ISO 10018 Quality People Management systems on April 3. ... [ read more ]

Despite huge expenditures for motivational speakers, employee engagement and executive coaching on leadership, U.S. levels of customer and employee engagement remain stuck at historic low levels. This begs the question: What type of ROI do organizations achieve in their executive coaching and motivational speeches if nothing fundamentally changes in the way they conduct business? ... [ read more ]

Snacknation.com, a provider of healthy snacks for employees, uses a comprehensive white paper on employee engagement to push its search engine rankings to the top, demonstrating how all types of companies can contribute to educating the marketplace. ... [ read more ]

Toronto-based CarltonOne Engagement recently announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Luis Miguel Díaz-Llaneza, Founder of Recompensas de Lealtad S.A. de C.V. (RDL). ... [ read more ]

EEA and RRN Launch New Brand Experience Coalition to Promote Use of Customized Brand Experiences in Promotional Products, Gifts and Rewards ... [ read more ]

Founded in 2016 in Salt Lake City, Xvoyant has developed a unique technology that aims to transform the cloud-based Salesforce CRM platform from a 'system of record into an Enterprise Sales Engagement platform to drive action and engagement,' explains CEO Rob Jeppsen. ... [ read more ]

The Employee Engagement Awards recently published its first eBook, Creating the Best Workplaces: Insights from Global Employee Engagement Influencers. It contains Top Tips identified by... [ read more ]

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, 'Engaging Employees Starts With Remembering What You're Your Company Stands For,' brand consultant and author Denise Lee Yohn argues that engagement has little value unless it connects employees to the brand. Her article adds to the growing number of experts arguing for a need to connect employee and customer engagement and contains an excellent case study for what she calls Brand Engagement - what the EEA calls Enterprise Engagement. ... [ read more ]

Sixty ISO standards now include new Annex SL people management requirements that 80% or more organizations would not meet if thoroughly audited now. Companies were given time to adapt to these major new requirements, but that time is running out, say the authors. ... [ read more ]

Shelby, NC-based C.A.Short recently announced that it is partnering with ProcessMAP, a leading data intelligence cloud platform provider in the Risk, Health & Safety Management field... [ read more ]

The first organization of companies committed to human capital disclosures gains the support of four international organizations focused on human capital management and announces a new technical committee to develop reporting protocols.... [ read more ]

A reminder to register here for the next Social & Human Capital Coalition (SHCC) webinar on September 4th to get an overview of progress to date, feedback from the public consultation on the draft Protocol and to share your own views on the field... [ read more ]

Next Level Performance has named Paul Ruddy as its new Vice President of Information Technology. ... [ read more ]

A new organization has been created to address the long-overlooked issue of the human factor in safety. ... [ read more ]

The addition of the first course on Enterprise Engagement to the Coggno.com online training community of 2,000 companies provides further proof that this field is taking hold. ... [ read more ]

ITA Group recently announced its acquisition of Hartmann Studios. With offices in San Francisco and Atlanta, Hartmann Studios is a full-service experiential design and production studio whose specialty lies in conceiving, creating and executing a ... [ read more ]

Professors from five universities will head up a new ICEE Task Force to prepare business management and academics worldwide for new ISO Annex SL requirements and Enterprise Engagement practices, which are now required in 60 ISO standards and by investors with over $15.7 trillion in investment capital. The announcement was made Aug. 13th at the first symposium on Enterprise Engagement at the Academy of Management annual conference in Chicago. ... [ read more ]

Next Level Performance (NLP) has named Steve Okabayashi as the company's new Business Development Manager. ... [ read more ]

Why are a number of organizations embracing the term 'employee experience'? Maybe it's because they aren't achieving tangible results from their employee engagement efforts. A new study helps explain why there's so much skepticism surrounding employee engagement.... [ read more ]

If James Smith’s LinkedIn posts have an edge, he says, it's because he believes the lack of measurement and proliferation of platitudes is hurting the cause. ... [ read more ]

Over the last several years, ESM has focused on the growing pressure from investors on Chief Executives to implement formal human capital strategies that address all stakeholders, as well the potential impact of the growing number of ISO human capital standards. Deann Desai, convener for the ISO Technical Committee than manages the Annex SL management standard, believes it's only a matter of time before CEOs get the message that today’s organizations need a strategic and tactical focus on all their stakeholders that ISO and many others have overlooked for many years. ... [ read more ]

In 2011, ISO came up with a new standard for management systems to make it much easier for all ISO management standards, including ISO 9001 quality management, ISO 45001 occupational health and safety (OH&S), and all other management standards, to apply the same strategic focus on a systems approach to management that addresses the needs of all stakeholders and a focused approach to fostering awareness, capability, buy-in, and inspiration. ... [ read more ]

As ISO standards clearly emphasize, the best organizational results come from sensible, evidence-based decision making focused on achieving agreed-upon goals, rather than from the desire of leaders to acquire power. ... [ read more ]