Greg Flickinger

Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group

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The Business Case for Workforce Engagement

Businesses today are experiencing the most competitive, global environment we’ve ever seen – and the key to current and future business success lies with engaging our workforce. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, discusses the current state of engagement.

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Workforce Engagement Defined

The OpX Leadership Network’s Workforce Solutions group set out to define the conditions that create an environment to allow and support engagement. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, highlights how companies can remove the barriers that stop employees from deciding to become engaged in an organization.

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The Importance of Effective Leadership

Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, highlights the various elements of an engagement framework, starting with the importance of effective leadership. Without it, your engagement framework will not have a solid foundation.

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The Three Pillars of Engagement

Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews the three pillars of an effective engagement framework: empowerment, enablement and connection.

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The Pillar of Empowerment: Desire

The pillar of empowerment is an essential element of the OpX Leadership Network’s workforce engagement framework. While you can’t give your employees the desire to be engaged in their jobs, you can remove the barriers to their motivation through meaningful work, team contribution, recognition and emotional equity.

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The Pillar of Empowerment: Authority

Authority is very easy to understand, but is often difficult for leaders to surrender. Engagement requires the ability to distribute authority across all levels of the organization. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, discusses how to achieve organizational flexibility, the ability to adapt and enable innovation through the distribution of authority.

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The Pillar of Enablement: Skills

To create the conditions for engagement, it’s important to support the opportunities to build and acquire the skills employees need to succeed. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews functional and interpersonal skills, and how learning acquiring new capabilities leads to a more engaged workforce.

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The Pillar of Enablement: Resources

Once people have skills, they need resources to use these capabilities to add value in the organization. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews resources – including tools, processes, technical support and more – that are crucial for an engaged workforce.

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Ensuring Your Employees are the Right Fit

Leaders should evaluate if their employees are in the right roles and have the right skill sets to provide value to the organization. The OpX Leadership Network’s Workforce Engagement framework outlines how to determine if an employee is a good fit for your organization.

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Effective Communication in Workforce Engagement

To establish connection, organizations should not only ensure their employees are the right fit, but they are also providing effective communication channels and pathways. Greg Flickinger, Chair, OpX Leadership Network Workforce Solutions Group, reviews the attributes of communication and how they lead to internal information flow, awareness and decision-making.