Workforce Recognition and Employee Engagement

Published: May 21, 2013, 11:30 p.m.

b'#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). \\xa0 Doesn\'t everybody love their job? \\xa0 Unfortunately no. Too many are not happy, disengaged and feel they just aren\'t being recognized. At all. Major shifts in technology, social media and management strategy (or lack thereof) have drastically changed how we work, and not for the better. In fact, lost productivity of actively disengaged employees costs the US economy $370 billion annually according to Gallup research. \\xa0 But when employees are recoginized and rewarded, they are more engaged and emotionally connected to their work, sometimes upwards of four times more so than their unrecognized counterparts. \\xa0 How should we do that today? Well,\\xa0#TChat co-creators and hosts Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman\\xa0welcome this week\'s guests, Stan Phelps, founder of 9 INCH Marketing and author of "What\'s Your Green Goldfish," and S. Max Brown, Principal at Rideau\\u2019s Recognition Management Institute and keynote speaker and keynote speaker. \\xa0 This will be another great "world of engagement" show, so we hope to see you here! \\xa0**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We\\u2019re thrilled to announce our first \\u201cworld of work\\u201d partnership \\u2014 with Achievers.\\xa0Read about it here!'