How To Have High Performance Conversations That Boost Engagement, Productivity and Profit

05/01/24 • 5 min

FROM:TODAY

87% of employees feel they are being productive.
Only 12% of employers would agree.

This is a huge gap in perceptions.

Are our leaders doing enough to communicate that their expectations are not being met?

Are our employees being left entirely in the dark?

It’s a horrible feeling when you suspect that someone doesn’t think that you’re doing a very good job. It’s worse, when it remains a feeling and isn’t addressed openly, transparently and with care.

In this week’s episode of with INTENT: we discuss how leaders must lead in cultivating the right conditions for high performance conversations - keeping teams engaged and driving productivity.
With INTENT: our 5 minute deconstructions of the current trends to inspire healthy rethinking and reconstructive action.
by Chris Wickenden, Chief Creative Officer at FROM:TODAY

Get in touch with your thoughts and comments.

87% of employees feel they are being productive.
Only 12% of employers would agree.

This is a huge gap in perceptions.

Are our leaders doing enough to communicate that their expectations are not being met?

Are our employees being left entirely in the dark?

Get in touch with your thoughts and comments.

Previous Episode

Driving Productivity Whilst Staying Human

We’re busier than ever.
We’re struggling to keep up with our workloads and we’re feeling more and more stressed because of it.

64% of people say that they don’t have enough time or energy to do their work.
70% of people say that they would delegate as much of their workload as possible to AI.

In this week’s episode of with INTENT: we delve into the challenges of this drive for productivity and the impact that it could be having on employee engagement.

As this drive intensifies, how do we ensure that we keep what’s essentially human, brilliant and life-affirming at the core of our organisations?
How do we make empowered, value based decisions about AI?
How do we ensure that we don’t delegate our essential meaning and connection to each other in service to a rather narrow definition of productivity - more, more quickly?
With INTENT: our 5 minute deconstructions of the current trends to inspire healthy rethinking and reconstructive action.
by Chris Wickenden, Chief Creative Officer at FROM:TODAY

Get in touch with your thoughts and comments.

Next Episode

Why No Survey Will Solve Your Engagement Problem

No Survey will solve your engagement problem.
Certainly not alone.
After all, only 8% of employees really believe that their organisation will actually do anything as a result of engagement surveys. And only 1 in 4 employees feel that their opinion matters in their organisation.
If leaders aren’t engaging with their teams in a meaningful way on a day to day basis, why would we expect those teams to engage in a survey in any meaningful way? - however well it might be positioned.
In this week’s episode of with INTENT: we delve further into what it takes to have the all important high performance conversations with your team, every day - keeping them engaged - keeping you productive.

With INTENT: our 5 minute deconstructions of the current trends to inspire healthy rethinking and reconstructive action.
by Chris Wickenden, Chief Creative Officer at FROM:TODAY

Get in touch with your thoughts and comments.

FROM:TODAY - How To Have High Performance Conversations That Boost Engagement, Productivity and Profit

Transcript

[00:00:00] Hi, Chris here from FROM:TODAY. We need to have more high performance conversations in our organisations. To borrow the terminology of Kim Scott and radical candour, conversations where people both care personally and challenge directly. Now, what drives me towards this conclusion is this. Currently, whilst 87 percent of employees believe that they are being productive, Only 12 percent of employers would say the same thing about those workers, and it's this massive gap that leads me