SXSW 2025

Employee Engagement – Story of Unrequited Love

Description:

Motivation, Passion and Commitment are intrinsic to us. We have created a ONE sided burden for leaders, HR, and managers to drive them for an individual(s) to create "workplace engagement". An entire billion++ dollar industry further corroborates this approach through "employee engagement tools". It's time we EDIT the construct to replace employee engagement with “Employee Alliance”. Employee alliance being defined as: A mutually beneficial alliance that holds both employee and employer responsible for a committed and impactful relationship.

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Takeaways

  1. We have to hold our team members EQUALLY responsible for driving a mutual commitment to growth
  2. A truly empowered environment needs to be co-created for employee alliance to thrive
  3. Measurement is key to establish a meaningful employee alliance

Speakers

  • Priyanka Gupta, Head of People, Ownwell

Organizer

Priyanka Gupta, Head of People, Ownwell

Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Short Form
  • Track: Culture
  • Track 2
  • Level: Advanced
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