It's rather curious how earnestly Enbridge conducts these employee surveys, all in the name of showing it cares about its staff, and yet the results never change, year after year.
We dutifully attend the meetings about what might be improved, and watch leadership do nothing whatsoever about it.
One begins to suspect the surveys were never meant to produce change at all. They can’t be that daft, can they?
So what, precisely, is the point?
It’s simple.
They really don’t care about the employee.
Only the STIP and their own advancement up.
@f5 They do actively take action on the results — the action is a deliberate decision to ignore them.
It never ceases to amaze me how much leaders try to spin things. You're not going to convince us you're being truthful by dancing around a topic — we see through that. And every time you dodge a simple, straightforward question, you lose a little more credibility.
That's actually one of PM's strengths — he won't dodge. But he'll say "we should have a way to deal with that so it isn't a problem," and then let his own team do nothing about it. Walk the talk. Show us you'll reward the people who do the same, and hold accountable the ones who don't.
I'd be nice if any VP+ leaders did anything with the feedback. Maybe next decade!
I've been in enough of these meetings now to see the pattern clearly: senior leaders reviewing engagement survey results with HR, genuinely concerned about the numbers, genuinely committed to "doing something about it." And yet the obvious answer is somehow always the one thing off the table.
Whatever you do, don't forget to report each and every survey request as phishing!
88% (probably) of employees call for higher compensation, Leadership responds with “we’ll provide training to explain your total compensation package”
I know what my package is a--holes, 2% raises with 5% inflation doesn’t work.
Well, you don't want the employees too happy because that means you're overpaying them/not working them hard enough.
If it's getting worse then you aren't paying enough/wlb is too bad.
It's a monitoring tool