After eight years spent advising businesses on how to improve employee engagement, reading hundreds of white papers and studies and leading a research project on what impacts it and how to best measure it I’ve finally figured it all out.

I needed to be away from the ‘problem’ for a few months to really see the wood from the trees.

You cause employee engagement in your business simply by hiring people passionate about life (their own and others) and committed to leveraging their innate and/or learned skill set to be as one employee shared with me ‘good at life’ in ‘the job that I choose’.

You can spend hundreds of hours and millions of dollars articulating a purpose for your business and identifying values to give it foundation and structure but if you hire inappropriately it’s all inconsequential investment and effort.

How they choose a job is up to them……