Finding Your Sweet Spot: How Power, Passion, and Priorities Spark Engagement
Employee Engagement•
Tina Robinson
•Nov 14, 2019
Do you want to feel more engaged at work?
Do you want to work with more engaged colleagues?
Do you want both?
You’re in the right place.
Let’s start with the obvious. We've been approaching engagement all wrong. Because the statistics continue to prove it.
Only one-third of US employees are engaged at work - and this number has barely moved in 15+ years. More than half are looking for that next job right now. 70% of the variance in team-level engagement is influenced by the manager. And turnover costs organizations costs 30-200%+ of the departed employees’ annual salaries
Organizations spend countless hours and dollars trying to make their people fall in love with their brand (and their cool floor plan, funky logo, and kitchen full of kombucha) instead of encouraging them to love what they do. While free swag and bringing my pets to work might buy a bit more time and a higher score on the latest ""pulse"" survey, it's not going to shift my deeper engagement.
As humans we have a need and a creative drive to enjoy life. When we love what we do we stand in our own power and are in more harmonious relationship with everything and everyone. This translates to more effective interactions, more productive output, and stronger business results. When we love what we do we're more likely to love doing it for those who celebrate us. THIS is engagement. And for most organizations, this is RADICAL engagement.
Together we will explore “radical engagement” from three angles - individuals finding their professional 3Ps sweet spot (powers + passion + priorities) and identifying what they love to do, managers encouraging and rewarding the sweet spot, and organizations hiring for and nurturing engagement.
As founder of WorkJoy, Tina builds on 20 years of corporate operations, technology consulting, sales advisory, and HR experience to provide innovative facilitation, coaching, and consulting solutions to organizations ready to unleash the potential of their people. From personal branding to leadership development, from executive coaching to cross-functional global training, Tina co-creates talent development programs that drive business outcomes and deliver human results. Tina has worked with leaders and teams from prominent organizations, including Fabletics, FOX Sports, Frederick Fisher and Partners Architecture and Design, National Wildlife Federation, SAP, Savage X Fenty, Spin Master, and Spotify. Tina is an engaging and sought-after speaker, having graced the stage at the SHRM Talent and International Expo conferences, ATD's International Conference and Expo, LinkedIn's Talent Connect, Disrupt HR, and past Bamboo HR Virtual Summits. She is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia (BA) and University of Michigan (MBA) and business school faculty at Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Los Angeles with her writer husband and two beloved pet parrots.