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 Post an interesting article about customer service » Employee Engagement

 0 Comments- Add comment | Back to Praise & Grumble Written on 27-Jan-2010 by servsci

A recent Gallup survey reports that only 29% of employees are "engaged". I.e. wholly committed to their organisation, customer-focused and enthusiastic.

17% are actively-disengaged. Most staff canteens have, what I call, a "negative table" at lunch time. This is them. The report talks about them as "Toxic Employees" and I guess you'd be wasting your energy trying to change them.

But the majority (54%) are defined as "not-engaged". These are the people you need to spot and get to work on to drive your profitability and customer service forward.

Interesting statistics which reminded the author of an old joke: A customer asks a chief executive "How many employees work here?" which prompts a response, "about half of them"

Source: Article by Richard Parkes Cordock, in the journal of the Institute of Customer Service "Customer First" Vol 9 No 5 2009.

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