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This is where people leaders get sharper — and their teams get smarter.ELE is a peer-powered network of people leaders who accelerate business results through shared intelligence and real-work collaboration. Learn more below about why ELE has been the trusted choice for leaders building high-performing teams for over 20 years.

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Fireside Chat: Inspire Greater Employee Engagement by Connecting to Purpose

In today's fast-paced business environment, employee engagement is more crucial than ever. Yet, as Steve Curtin, author of "The Revelation Conversation," points out, "Most sophisticated organizations make the time and make the investment in articulating a mission or a vision or a purpose statement, core values, corporate ideals, but very few of the employees within that organization even at the senior level can recall them."

This disconnect between organizational purpose and employee understanding was the focus of our recent session, where we explored strategies to inspire greater employee engagement by connecting individuals to their work's purpose.

Key Takeaways:
1. Job Purpose and Essence: Understanding the distinction between job functions (what you do and how you do it) and job essence (why you do it) is crucial for employee engagement. Managers should help employees connect their daily tasks to the organization's higher purpose.
2. The Revelation Conversation: Regular, informal conversations between managers and employees about job purpose can significantly improve engagement. These conversations should focus on helping employees understand their role's essence and its connection to the organization's mission.
3. Aligning Values and Behaviors: Organizations should not only define their core values but also create value statements that explain how these values translate into specific behaviors. This helps employees understand how to embody the organization's values in their daily work.
By focusing on these areas, organizations can bridge the gap between their stated purpose and their employees' day-to-day experiences, fostering a more engaged, motivated, and purposeful workforce.

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Fireside Chat: Inspire Greater Employee Engagement by Connecting to Purpose

Case study: <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/book/the-revelation-conversation-inspire-greater-employee-engagement-by-connecting-to-purpose/">The Revelation Conversation</a> by Steve Curtin argues creating an environment for employees to do work that matters rather than simply checking boxes and going through the motions, employers will reap the benefits of higher employee engagement, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

<a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/book/the-revelation-conversation-inspire-greater-employee-engagement-by-connecting-to-purpose/?author=steve-curtin"><img class="size-medium wp-image-36891 aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Revelation-Conversation-Book-Cover-200x300.jpg" alt="The Revelation Conversation (Steve Curtin, 2022)" width="200" height="300" /></a>

Nearly every organization has a mission, vision or purpose statement displayed on its website or framed and mounted in the executive corridor. Yet employees often struggle to articulate how their company’s purpose relates to their daily job tasks.

Join this ELE discussion on Zoom with Steve Curtin, author of The Revelation
Conversation, and Andrew Savikas, Chief Strategy Officer at getAbstract, to learn about tools and best practices to inspire greater employee engagement by connecting job function to company purpose.

In the fireside chat, we will discuss:
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 	<li>The benefits of higher levels of employee engagement</li>
 	<li>How leading companies link their corporate ideals to employees’ daily job
responsibilities</li>
 	<li>How L&amp;D leaders and managers can involve employees in the discovery of their total job role and connect job duties to job purpose</li>
 	<li>How to create an environment for employees to do work that matters</li>
</ul>
ELE produces this Learning Circle: Retooling Talent Development for the New Normal.

ELE's <a title="ELE's Idea Exchange" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-exchange/">Idea Exchange</a>: Collaborate online with your peers.

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Nearly every organization has a mission, vision, or purpose statement displayed on its website or framed and mounted in the executive corridor. But it is largely unknown to employees and seemingly unrelated to their daily jobs.

As a result, while employees may possess the knowledge and skills to do their jobs, they are unaware of what bestselling customer service author Steve Curtin calls job purpose: how their specific tasks contribute to the organization’s reason for being. They understand what to do and how to do it, but not why they do it.

Curtin offers a fresh tool to overcome this challenge. The Revelation Conversation is a one-on-one exchange where leaders and managers involve employees in discovering their total job role, connect job duties to job purpose, and inspire greater employee engagement. Instead of just having assignments to work on, they now have a purpose of working toward. Service quality goes from transactional to exceptional.

The book contains dozens of examples of how leading companies link their corporate ideals to employees’ daily job responsibilities. By creating an environment for employees to do work that matters rather than simply checking boxes and going through the motions, employers will reap the benefits of higher employee engagement, productivity, and customer satisfaction.