ENGAGE
Models for Employee Engagement
The ENGAGE Campaign has developed a number of models for engaging employees and companies to promote more employee engagement. These include:
ENGAGE Week
Imagine in one week engaging thousands of employees in communities around the world. ENGAGE Week events aim to achieve this.
ENGAGE Weeks aim to:
Give national and international visibility to employee engagement activities
Kick-start new employee engagement programmes and partnerships
Recognise companies with established, committed programmes
Mobilise and inspire thousands of new and active corporate volunteers
Celebrate the contribution employee engagement makes to sustainable community development
Support employees already involved in local communities and encourage more to get involved
Provide companies with an easy way to organise projects and develop community partnerships
In April 2004 Volunteering Australia - with support from the Australian Prime Minister's Business Community Partnership, and in collaboration with Volunteering Victoria, Volunteering New South Wales and Volunteering Queensland – organised ENGAGE Week in Australia. The Week featured a series of six seminars on employee engagement. Approximately 400 leaders from the private and non-profit sectors participated, including representatives from Whitbread, National Australia Bank, Esso, Boston Consulting Group, Energex and Ford.
For information on how to participate, email: engage@iblf.org
ENGAGE Fellowships
ENGAGE Fellowships are 100-hour projects designed to provide professional and personal development opportunities for employees and at the same time bring practical skills and resources to communities around the world. Contact: amanda.bowman@iblf.org
ENGAGE Awards
In 2004 ENGAGE launched ENGAGE Awards in Poland and Bulgaria to recognize companies promoting employee engagement for community development. In 2005 ENGAGE in partnership with Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum awarded the ENGAGE Award for Bulgaria to Danone – one of the leading dairy companies in the country. More