The employee experience
Subtitle: how to attract talent, retain top performers, and drive results
By: Tracy Maylett, EdD, and Matthew Wride, JD
Contributors: Wride, Matthew, author
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781119294184
Subjects: Employees; Employee motivation; Attitudes; Corporate culture; Job enrichment
Description: "Ever notice how companies with the best service also have the happiest employees? That's no accident. Do you want to build a strong, successful organization? Start by ignoring your customers. Really. Instead, focus first on creating a better employee experience, or EX. Your employees interact with customers, make them smile, and carry your brand message from the warehouse to the front lines. If your employees are having a great experience, so will your customers. In The Employee Experience, employee engagement pioneers Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride reveal the secrets not only to attracting and retaining top talent, but to building a deeply engaged workforce--the foundation of organizational success. With deep insights into the dynamics of trust and mutual expectations, this book shows that before you can deliver a transcendent customer experience (CX), you must first build a superlative EX. With real-world examples and more than 24 million employee survey responses, Maylett and Wride reveal a clear, consistent pattern among the world's most successful organizations. By establishing a clear set of expectations and promises--collectively known as the Contract--and upholding it consistently, employers can build the trust that leads to powerful engagement. Whether in business, healthcare, education, sports, or nonprofit, these organizations are consistently more successful and more profitable, enjoy sustainable growth, and win the battle to keep today's rarest resource: talented people. Blending rigorous research, detailed case studies, in-depth interviews and expert insights, The Employee Experience will teach you to: Make the employee experience a core part of your strategy, Understand employee expectations and bridge the "Expectation Gap", Establish rock-solid Brand, Transactional, and Psychological Contracts that breed trust and confidence, Build an employee-employer partnership in creating something extraordinary, Turn employee engagement into fuel for customer satisfaction, profit, and growth, Attracting talent, retaining top performers, and creating an environment in which employees choose to engage drives results. The Employee Experience shows you where truly extraordinary organizations begein...and how to build one" -- From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Great expectations; title: You're digging in the wrong place; title: The expectation gap; title: Ask your doctor about expectation alignment dysfunction; title: An intentional framework; title: Three contracts; title: The brand contract; title: The transactional contract; title: The psychological contract; title: Trust; title: Moments of truth; title: Magic; title: Building the extraordinary.