Keep Your Employees Up To Date

Good, bad, or ugly, transparency is key. Employees are your company’s best asset, and your bottom line is heavily dependent on how productive and engaged they are. Share successes, setbacks, and other challenges your business faces so they can intuitively connect their engagement with overall business performance. By offering this information you’re also allowing them to find their own ways to boost productivity or offer ideas for improvement. 

Conduct Regular Evaluations

If they don’t know how you think they are doing, they will fill in the gaps themselves. Employees want to know where they stand and what they need to work on to improve. But they have to be told. Make sure you provide balance, honest feedback. You trusted your employees enough to fill the job role when you hired them, so why would it be worth your time as a leader to hover and micromanage? Reduce their stress and improve their connection with their position (and the company) by offering encouragement and appreciation without nit-picky intervening. If you do have a difference of opinion, find constructive ways to deliver feedback that makes them want to keep trying instead of giving up. 

Don’t Undermine Your Management Team

With organizations that have various tiers of management, there’s a clear chain of command when it comes to reporting on the job. Every employee on every level will eventually face a tough situation on work that requires managers to mediate or even referee. Support a culture of engagement by supporting the hierarchy of authority granted to employees in question. 

It’s intrinsically human to feel a sense of pride for a job well done. This was as true in grade school as it is in the workplace, and rewards that work for your staff and business helps build positive attitudes and a healthier culture. Something as simple as a “good job” or even employee recognition “holidays” can offer a push forward to employees who may feel stuck or stagnant — and definitely not engaged.   

Remember the last time your sports team won a big game? Wasn’t the air of success contagious? The same concept can be applied to the workplace. There is a reason that people flock to team sports. Facing the same wins (and losses) as a collaborative, cohesive team boosts morale, interpersonal connections, and ultimately, employee engagement.

Employee Recognition Is Rewarding

Your organization would take customer feedback seriously, so why wouldn’t the same be true for what your employees are saying? Touch base with your team regularly to hear what they’re facing on a daily basis and use what they say to improve workplace culture and engagement. Lead by example; when you care about them, they care about their jobs.

Let employees know you’re present and available for conversations about improving workplace culture, even the tough ones. Fear of speaking up can leave workers stressed and detached from their role, unwilling to take risks that could help move the company forward. Keep a positive approach and don’t punish them for mistakes if you want to keep employee engagement up. 

Oftentimes, executive leaders and managers can be so wrapped up in daily business processes that they miss out on the signs showing engagement is down. When that happens, it’s important to bring in outside help that can find these opportunities to help capitalize on your organization’s best asset — your employees. 

It’s time to start taking action. We will help you determine what steps you need to take to build employee engagement and show you how to take those steps to the next level of success in your life and business.