{"id":1300,"date":"2016-03-14T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:22:27","slug":"top-performer-or-simply-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Top performer or simply engaged ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1300 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1300' data-nonce='3e49a96320' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1300 lc'>15<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-1300 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motivation-03-110x110.jpg\" alt=\"Motivation 03\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motivation-03-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motivation-03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motivation-03.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was recently attending a business event and I was conversing with a gentleman who happened to be the head of human resources of his company, he was sharing with me that among his employees 15 percents were top performers. \u00a0I happened to have in mind the statistics by Gallup<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/span> of the level of\u00a0 employees engagement worldwide (13 percents) and I was struck by how similar these two figures were &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Could it be that top performers are not always exceptionally skilled but simply more motivated individuals ? Could motivation be the main lever to efficiency\u00a0 ? It is commonly agreed that a motivated person performs better but then why are on average four-fifths of employees not engaged worldwide ?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may partly lie in the fact that when hiring or evaluating employees the focus is mainly on skills. Simply think about a typical hiring process assessing diplomas, past experience, professional references, trainings, knowledge, abilities, mental preferences, IQ<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/span> and sometimes EQ<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/span>, &#8230; Same type of things for the yearly evaluation with the &#8220;what&#8221; and the &#8220;how&#8221;. Motivation is rarely in scope, here is why: if skills assessment is (relatively) factual and tangible, assessing motivation is not.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the answer lies in the fact that the proportion of disengaged people &#8211; a staggering 85 % ! &#8211; is too high\u00a0for the causes to be specific\u00a0 to each individual, there necessarily exists some company historical and environmental causes. Increasing a company \u00a0overall efficiency implies to accept\u00a0this idea.<\/p>\n<p>Employees engagement has a direct and substantial influence on a company overall efficiency and consequently one of the paths of choice to improve\u00a0a company functioning\u00a0is to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Evaluate the level of motivation of its employees<\/li>\n<li>Understand the historical and environmental causes responsible of this high proportion of disengagement<\/li>\n<li>Identify who is engaged and who is not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What is important to\u00a0remember is that a minority of a company&#8217;s employees is actually motivated and that these individuals are the foundation of company&#8217;s efficiency. It is crucial to keep and empower them so they can\u00a0influence and motivate others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">[1]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/165269\/worldwide-employees-engaged-work.aspx\">Worldwide, 13% of Employees Are Engaged at Work, www.gallup.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">[2] <a title=\"Intelligence quotient\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence_quotient\" target=\"_blank\">IQ, wikipedia<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">[3] <a title=\"Emotional Intelligence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emotional_intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">EQ, wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 I was recently attending a business event and I was conversing with a gentleman who happened to be the head of human resources of his company, he was sharing with me that among his employees 15 percents were top performers. \u00a0I happened to have in mind the statistics by Gallup[1] of the level of\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisation","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}