Tips for how you can improve and measure the Employee Engagement💎

"Employees who believe that engagement is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability."

Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals.

It’s not about everything being perfect. No job, no company, and no team ever will be.

However, it’s important that people feel like there is momentum in the right direction.

As a leader, if you can help your team see positive outcomes and progress from their hard efforts, you’ll teach them to be gritty. This will help you deliver great results and prevent them from giving up and slipping into learned helplessness.

How will you understand the needs of your customer, if you are not able to understand your employee?

 How have you helped your teams (or yourself) overcome feelings of helplessness in hard work environments?

Do you know that highly engaged employee leads to:-

• Better profitability and productivity for businesses
• Higher sales
• More customer satisfaction, loyalty, and engagement

But before started you need to understand all about engagement

In simple terms, we can say that employees can get bored of doing the same repetitive jobs, which will lead to them being less productive, or they might look for other job opportunities outside and leave your organization. Whatever the case, it would be a loss for your organization. This is the situation where employee engagement comes into the picture, by keeping the employees engaged, you can make sure that the employee continues to be productive and stays with your organization. You can understand employee engagement importance by reading the following points:-

1.     Boosts Productivity - When you engage your employees you are giving them a challenge that boosts up your enterprise productivity. Companies with engaged employees are 21% more productive.

2.     Increases Customer Satisfaction - Employees who are passionate about their work are often the best people to interact with your customers. Those who believe in helping customers, feel valued by their enterprise will provide better customer service.

3.     Retains Best Employees - When people are involved and invested in their roles are less likely to leave the job.

4.     Enhances Company Culture - Create a workplace culture where you check in with your employees to ensure the company's mission aligns with the way people are currently working and the ways they want to work.

5.     Symptom Of Success - When employees feel engaged, valued, and recognized, they feel that they have succeeded in making a meaningful impact at work.

 Few tips that can be useful for you in the important mission of improving employee engagement:

👉Collaborate with Employees when setting Goals.

👉Engage on progress updates on a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly basis.

👉Real Feedback between colleagues and 1:1 conversations on Goals & Values between managers and employees

👉Build a strong and fun corporate culture

👉Enable Dashboards to identify areas of work and make an immediate impact

👉Applaud your employees when they want to work with other departments

👉Employees are allowed to introspect and review their performance.

👉Put your employees first

👉Ask for suggestions before implementing new projects

👉Take them out whenever you will get opportunities

👉Allow Employees to provide their feedback, and opinions and discuss with managers on factors that impacted their performance

👉Plan team activities

👉Employees are empowered to seek training and development opportunities to upgrade their skills and help in their career

👉Give them opportunities to learn and grow with your company

👉Give employees the opportunity to look into the ratings and reviews provided by the management and give their feedback on the same.

👉Provide feedback to their seniors.

👉Appraise them for their work no matter how small it was.

👉Invest in your employee’s health.

👉Give them space to maintain their work-life balance

👉Mapping and Identifying strengths, development areas, hidden strengths, blind spots, etc. to help them perform better.

👉Start Peer to peer recognition program

👉Create a Psychology safe workplace for your team to thrive

 Now the question arises of how you will get to know whether they are engaged or not for this you need to measure the

Strategies to Measure Employee Engagement are below:

1) Establish clear employee engagement goals.

2) Take advantage of email.

3) Use pulse surveys.

4) Calculate your eNPS.

5) Set up one-on-one virtual meets.

6) Set up a focus group.

7) Check employee retention.

8) Look at employee productivity.

9) Check your employee absenteeism rate

10) Use an exit survey.

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