Employee engagement – sounds very scientific, doesn’t it?
However, it really isn’t that complex. It is how your team feel working for you, and how engaged and motivated they are.
The main benefit of engaged employees is easily reflected in their performance and productivity at the workplace. This improves your employee turnover and their commitment to the company and its values and their willingness to help out colleagues.
Here are five proven ways to improve employee engagement.
Encourage autonomy
Nobody likes to work in an environment where their managers are always breathing down their necks or always having to check with their supervisors for approval for every solution to an issue.
You should encourage autonomy by giving your employees the freedom to make their own decisions and just get back to them to find out the solution they decide on.
Offer career development
Career development are one of the factors contributing to employee satisfaction in the workplace. When employers continuously invest both time and money in their employees’ development at the workplace, employees will realize that the company is also interested in the progress in their career.
Start providing employees not only with formal learning programs, but also with the opportunity to practice their newly acquired skills and knowledge on the job.
Offer fair pay packaging
Yes, salary can be a sensitive issue to talk about, however this is a conversation that nobody can easily avoid. Explain to your employees how your company’s pay structure works and what they look for when a certain employee deserve a promotion.
By you being more transparent and educating your employees about this sensitive issue, employees will understand better and even work harder to prove to you that they deserve their next promotion.
Encourage open communication
When there is miscommunication among you or your employees, there will always be problems either in the project or within the company.
Try to prioritize regular face to face meetings, as a critical part of your communication, and employees should be abler to offer their views on how to improve communications both within their departments and in the company.
You should also regularly assess the various business software tools that you use, especially when it comes to communication software.
Regularly recognize your people
Great companies know that the employees are the heart of the business. Satisfied and engaged employees would bring in not only positive energy to the workplace but also increase the company’s profit and sales.
Employees who feel they have a positive personal rapport with their management are more likely to be engaged. Not only that, employees would feel appreciated when they or their work gets noticed and this encourages constructive employee engagement.
Employees feel appreciated when they or their work gets noticed.
In Summary
Employee engagement is about all about genuinely valuing your employees.
Remember, an engaged employee is productive, active and disciplined. It is about time to invest in engagement as an integral part of the workplace.