Employee Engagement: A Survey Is Just The Beginning - A Conversation with Olivier Aries

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The principals at A Leadership Beyond are Predictive Index practitioners precisely because we are passionate about putting people at the center of leading change at the global and local level. Putting people first is the right thing to do, but we need to establish the business case as well as the moral case. Without a framework (Talent Optimization and tools (Predictive Index Assessment), even the most well-intentioned people initiatives fall short. In our latest conversation we spoke with Olivier Aries Co-Founder/Talent Optimization Implementer at Thrive Collective . Our conversation focused on the Diagnose component of Talent Optimization, which is a tool to measure engagement of the people that leads to strategic action to fill any identified gaps. Here are a few of the highlights of this dynamic conversation: The importance of pulling people data in at the start of the change initiative. Engagement defined as the amount of discretionary effort employees put into their work above and beyond what is necessary to stay employed. You can't directly impact engagement. Instead, we must focus on what drives engagement, and what causes poor engagement.