Employee Engagement
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
Employee Engagement seems self-explanatory but if you look up the definition in 4 different books you will get 4 different definitions. What we know is that if employees are disengaged our businesses are not working at full potential. Gallup has done extensive study in this area and the results show that a fully engaged workforce has a 2.6x greater return of earnings per share. That is a big number and one reason why your business needs to take action. Jack Welch, former CEO and Chairman of General Electric said:
“The best companies now know, without a doubt, where productivity—real and limitless—comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited, rewarded teams of people. It comes from engaging every single mind in the organization, making everyone part of the action, and allowing everyone to have a voice—a role—in the success of the enterprise. Doing so raises productivity not incrementally, but by multiples.”
Employee engagement is an achievable goal. If your employees are engaged you will experience less turnover and less absenteeism. You will have higher productivity and customer service scores.
We Can Help…
Our consultants will help you measure your current employee engagement. We will help you determine initiatives to improve engagement and implement those initiatives. Leigh Branham & Mark Hirschfeld, who authored Re-Engage which is about companies that were nominated as one of America’s Best Places to Work, identified six universal engagement drivers that we can help you achieve. These drivers when engrained in the culture of the organization will produce highly engaged employees.
- Caring, competent, and engaging senior leaders
- Effective managers who keep employees aligned and engaged
- Effective teamwork at all levels
- Job enrichment and professional growth
- Valuing employee contributions
- Concern for employee’s well-being
