FOREWARD

What is employee engagement ? As per David Zinger, a prolific author and a world expert on engagement “Engagement is all about the work and the benefits for both – The individual and the Organization”.

When we look at overall statistics and surveys, hardly 15 percent of employees are engaged in the workplace which reflects the complexity of the subject but also that majority of managers, team leaders and organizations do not understand fully the domain.

This may sound harsh but is true and one of the key reasons is that most of us don’t go through proper training or certification for the subject, so only natural leaders are able to succeed. When an individual is assigned the responsibility to lead or manage a team in most of the cases there are no structured guidelines or tools assigned to them, which make it challenging and impose some risks for the organization.

In my professional career for the last 30 years across different sectors and industries in Europe, Middle east I have had the opportunity and privilege to lead highly successful global teams from diversified cultures and experiences. Though there is no single secret formula for success, one thing that I can share with utmost clarity is that the most important dimension to succeed for any leader is to have vision and effectively communicate, and to bring and engage the right team together for this common objective.

I am very pleased to introduce and recommend this book, HIGH FIVE – 100% “proven recipe” for a highly successful and engaged team, authored by Jatin Sahni. I have known Jatin since 2014 and I can say that he has been an amazing individual delivering results across various roles he has been assigned. Team engagement comes naturally to Jatin and I am not surprised that he is authoring this initiative leveraging more than 28 years of corporate experience across organizations and cultures and leading high engage and performance teams.

HIGH FIVE is written as a corporate “COOKBOOK” that offers a recipe for organizations and line managers to tackle very complex and dynamic aspects of “employee engagement” and is presented in a simple and structured manner that can be easily understood. I’m confident that this book will prove immensely valuable to emerging individuals aspiring to steer teams or organizations towards a path of engagement and accomplishment.

Let’s HIGH FIVE.

 

Salvador Anglada

CEO e&enterprise