Gallup | By: Jim Harter | December 20, 2017:

According to our recent State of the Global Workplace report, 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work.

The economic consequences of this global “norm” are approximately $7 trillion in lost productivity. Eighteen percent are actively disengaged in their work and workplace, while 67% are “not engaged.”

This latter group makes up the majority of the workforce – they are not your worst performers, but they are indifferent to your organization. They give you their time, but not their best effort nor their best ideas.

They likely come to work wanting to make a difference – but nobody has ever asked them to use their strengths to make the organization better.

In a nutshell, this global engagement pattern provides evidence that how performance is managed, and specifically how people are being developed, is misfiring…

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