The Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement

Engaged employees have pride in their organization and its mission and are deeply committed to organizational success. As a result, engaged employees provide “discretionary effort,” going above basic job requirements to help the organization achieve its mission. Engaged employees find their work meaningful and rewarding and, in turn, they deliver for the organization, its leaders, their coworkers and the public.

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Employee Engagement Insights

How to Develop an Effective and Supportive Employee Retention Strategy

Retaining employees has many benefits for organizations and employees alike. Read this article to learn how to create a good retention strategy that works.

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February HR Webinar Series: The State of Employee Engagement - Research and Trends

Join us for this one-hour webinar to explore research methodologies and key trends that are reshaping the way organizations connect with their workforce. 

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5 Smart Innovative Employee Recognition Strategies for a Happier Workforce

Are you looking for employee recognition strategies for your public sector organization? Read this post to learn creative ways to recognize your employees.

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Innovative Employee Hiring and Retention Strategies For The Public Sector

The public sector is experiencing a talent shortage. To improve employee hiring and retention in the public sector, you need a fresh approach.

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Strategies for HR Professionals on Building Resilient Teams in the Public Sector

Public sector organizations are complex and see much adversity. Read this post to learn strategies for building resilience for agency success.

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How Public Sector Managers Can Better Engage Their Employees

Employee engagement levels have dropped. What employee engagement strategies can public sector managers implement to ensure disengagement doesn't take root?

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What Do Employees Really Want in a Workplace This Year

Do you want to learn how to overcome recruiting and retention challenges in your organization? Discover what employees want from employers in 2023.

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How to Attract and Retain a Younger Workforce

How can public sector organizations attract and retain a younger workforce? Here's what millennials and Gen Z want at work.

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Managing Employee Mental Health During a Recession

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Developing Relationships in a Hybrid Workplace

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to rebuild a community within your team, identify and overcome proximity bias, and balance “we” work with “me” work‍.

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Four Proven Steps for Attracting and Retaining State and Local Government Workers

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Why Public Service and Public Servants Should Be Celebrated

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How to Manage Staff Ideological Differences

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Employee Mental Health in the Workplace

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How to Build a Strong Hybrid Workplace Culture

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Attracting and Retaining Talent in the New World of Work

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Work: The Future Is Now

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Tracking and Mitigating Staff Burnout in the Public Sector

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Squash Burnout and Thrive Instead

Burnout is a special type of work-related stress. Join us for this webinar and learn 3-tips for to make work “work for you again”.

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Best Practices for Building a Culture of Appreciation in Remote Workplaces

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"The Great Resignation" Impact on the Public Sector Explained

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How the Public Sector Can Build on Opportunities Presented by COVID-19

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Employee Engagement in a Hybrid Work Environment

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Supporting Employee Wellness Post-Pandemic

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Employee Engagement: Applying Lessons Learned to the New Workplace

Free pizza and Coke on a Friday afternoon is not an engagement strategy! What is employee engagement and why does it matters in the new world of work? How can organizations build engagement and a engagement culture in a hybrid or remote workforce. In this session Bob Lavigna will discuss how your organization can increase performance through measuring and improving employee engagement.

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Why Workplace Culture Is Key to Maximizing Employee Performance

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Redefining Public Sector Employee Experience

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Retaining Talent in the New World of Work

COVID-19 has permanently changed the world of work, including in the public sector. What does this mean for the ability of government to engage and retain talent? Join us in this informative session to explore the challenges and opportunities in rethinking how and where work is done, in order to retain talent, government’s most valuable resource.

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Culture Change Takes Time - and the Right People

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Employee Engagement -- Why It Matters (Part 2)

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Employee Engagement -- Why It Matters (Part 1)

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Building World-Class Employee Engagement

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Onboarding: Did Your Organization Have You at Hello?

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Harnessing the Power of Employee Engagement

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Leading Through a Pandemic: Panel Discussion of HR Directors

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COVID-19: Applying Lessons Learned to the New Workplace

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How to Keep A Remote Workforce engaged

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Celebrating Public Service and Public Servants

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And Now Another Word With ... Bob Lavigna

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And Now a Word With ... Bob Lavigna

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The COVID-19 Workplace: Employees Want to Be Heard

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It's Time to Reform the Public-Sector Workforce

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COVID-19's Lessons for the New Government Workplace

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‘Fresh Ideas’ About Employee Engagement? Not so Fast

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Improving Employee Engagement: It Takes Leaders With Courage

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Engaged Employees Drive Innovation

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Employee Engagement—Cutting Through the Babble

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The Business Case for Employee Engagement

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The Roadmap to Engaging Government’s Employees

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Employee Engagement – Is It Really A Priority?

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Creating an Awesome Culture

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is one of my favorite Peter Drucker quotes, attributed to him in 2006. Yet, it remains as powerful today as ever, with a more recent publication in 2013 by Curt Coffman and Kathie Sorenson titled Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch. Is dinner much further behind? Indeed, culture transcends all meals and has emerged as a key factor in organizational performance, go

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Building World-Class Employee Engagement

"Building World-Class Employee Engagement," features Brooke Stream, Manager of Organizational Effectiveness, City of Henderson, Nevada; and Bob Lavigna, Director of the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement.

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Six Keys to Maintaining the Engagement of a Remote Workforce

As a result of COVID-19, millions of employees, including in government, are now working from home full time. In this webinar, you will learn what engagement drivers are, and how to focus on them to maintain the engagement of employees working remotely.

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Onboarding – Did Your Organization Have You at Hello?

Join us for this insightful session on how impactful onboarding can be. We will discuss why it is worth it to invest in onboarding, what the most successful onboarding programs include, and what you need to consider when onboarding remotely. Walk away with an onboarding guide that you can use for the first year.

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Leading through a Pandemic - The Impact of Covid-19 on the Public Sector Workforce

A panel of human resource executives from the City of Detroit, City of Fairfield and the County of Monterey discuss lessons learned, insights and practical take-aways from the 2020 Employee Connection Survey

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Why Government Workers Are Harder to Motivate

It’s no secret that managing in the public sector is different from managing in the world of business. Often the environments in which government managers operate can actually make it more difficult to succeed.

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The Power of Employee Recognition

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Building Employee Engagement – A Roadmap & Lessons

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Why Employee Engagement Matters

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Employee Engagement Webinars...

Employee Engagement - A Roadmap and Lessons Learned
Building World-Class Employee Engagement
Six Keys to Maintaining the Engagement of a Remote Workforce

Surveys

We designed our surveys to be comprehensive and specifically apply to government. In addition, we offer services such as customized survey design, paper-based options, language translation and more detailed reports.

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Benchmarks

Institute-developed benchmarks, available exclusively to our clients, allow participating organizations to compare their results to the engagement levels of both public and private sector organizations.

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Analysis & Implementation

We use key driver analysis to reveal which workplace factors, based on the Institute employee survey, have the biggest impact on employee engagement. We provide support after the survey to help organizations identify and implement actions in response to survey results.

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