Employee Engagement is your staff’s freely offered commitment to your organisation and its values, to work with passion and purpose, which goes beyond job satisfaction and motivation.
- Clearly communicate your Company vision and values to everyone
- Provide information on how your Company is performing and how staff can help meet the Company’s targets
- Strive to create a work environment that is open, trusting, fair and fun
- Keep encouraging new ideas, suggestions and initiative
- Provide staff with a sense of ownership in their work, through good delegation
- Give staff specific and frequent feedback about their performance
- Encourage staff to grow, learn and develop new skills
- Recognise and reward high performance, not necessarily in financial terms
- Personally thank staff for doing a good job in a timely and sincere manner
- Provide opportunities for staff to feedback their views to the Company, by taking time to meet, talk and listen to them
- Put energy into learning from mistakes, rather than punishing them
- Celebrate business successes with everyone
Keep this list nearby and refer to it daily – you’ll be surprised what a difference it makes!
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