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Engagement. Strategies to Improve Your Employee’s. What Is Engagement?. Are they appreciated? Is the work meaningful? Is the support in place to make sure it works?. How Do Your Employees Feel About the Work They Do?. Why Engagement?. Benefits to you. Benefits to the employee.
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Engagement Strategies to Improve Your Employee’s
Are they appreciated?Is the work meaningful?Is the support in place to make sure it works? How Do Your Employees Feel About the Work They Do?
Why Engagement? • Benefits to you. • Benefits to the employee. • Benefits to the organization.
How is Engagement Measured? • I know what is expected of me at work. • I have the tools and equipment necessary. • I have the opportunity to do what I do best. • I have received praise or recognition. • Someone cares about me as a person. • Someone encourages my development.
How is Engagement Measured? • At work my opinions seems to count. • Mission or purpose makes my job seem important. • My co-workers are committed to quality work. • I have a best friend at work. • Someone has talked about my progress (6 months). • I have had opportunities to learn and grow.
Barriers to Engaging Employees • Time • Higher Priorities • Don’t Know How to Engage • Motivation
Rethinking Engagement • Tie engagement into what you are already doing. • Ask yourself “what am I most focused on improving” • Engagement is just how you will involve the team in accomplishing that.
Talking Engagement With The Team • First: • What is going right? • What is the best thing about working in your department? • What should we continue doing that is going well? • Second: • What is one thing we can fix, do better, improve? • How can we make it better? • Define what success will look like? • Agree on next steps.
Steps to Take • Talk one on one with your employees. • What do they like to do. • What have they learned (or would like to learn). • What suggestion would they make to improve. • Employees always want to know how they are doing…..Have frequent conversations.
More Steps to Take • Talk about improvements…constantly. • Return back to things that were brought up previously. • Talk about how improvements have made things better.
Even More Steps to Take • Tie it to the success of the organization. • Use the language of engagement. • Praise, then praise again and when all else fails praise some more.
Put it in Writing • Come up with two things to work on: • Something that is done right that you can continue. • Something that we can improve up and how it should be improved. Then write it down and keep it in front of you
And Finally • Engaging your employees is one of the most important and satisfying thing you will do. • Always look for ways to involve them in their work. • Remember, ownership is the key.