The Bottom Line: Reliable Talent Strategies for Business Success

Leveraging in-depth findings and key insights from the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services research, this series will help you successfully integrate employee engagement, performance, and business success. Explore all 7 of our carefully crafted lessons on your own time and download each lesson's strategic planning guide to help you design your 2021 talent initiatives.

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LESSON 1

DEFINING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Do you know what really matters to your employees at work? If not, you might have a murky definition of employee engagement. Without a clear understanding of what engagement means in your organization, it will be hard for your initiatives to make an impact.

LESSON 2

BUILDING BUSINESS VALUE FROM ENGAGEMENT

A new generation of talent leaders recognizes that increasing employee engagement can improve how well employees perform at work and bolster business results.

LESSON 3

CONNECTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

Connecting engagement and performance requires more than just improving one and then shifting to the other. They should build off of each other and your organization's goals.

LESSON 4

UNDERSTANDING THE MANAGER'S ROLE IN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Managers are on the front lines of the employee experience, so they’ve become positioned as a critical role to drive engagement. Yet, they’re expected to excel without effective coaching.

LESSON 5

USING THE RIGHT TOOLS TO PRODUCE ROI FROM YOUR TALENT INITIATIVES

By this point, you’ve established a strong definition of employee engagement, built an integrated strategy to boost engagement and performance, and empowered your managers to help you link the two to drive better business outcomes.

All of these components are key to business success, but you need the right tools to help you get there.

LESSON 6

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Businesses today are fast-paced, complex, and tackling challenges in unique ways. As a result, performance has shifted from productivity to strategic innovation and creative adaptability. To drive business success, you need to apply a forward-thinking approach to performance management.

LESSON 7

ACHIEVING ONGOING GROWTH AND SUCCESS

Organizations maximize employee potential when they build strategies that engage, leverage, understand, and retain top talent throughout the employee lifecycle.