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Your Employee Engagement Roadmap - Part 1
2016 engagement statistics released by Gallup revealed that we’re at 69% either not engaged, or actively disengaged(1). That means 2 out of 3 of your team members might be doing just the minimum to get by, or worse yet, showing up and actively working on other things, or even working against you!
Of course, statistics vary by company size. In most cases, the larger the company, the higher the percentage of disengagement. The smaller the company, the lower the disengagement percentage. Regardless - most of us do have employees who are not highly engaged. They are showing up to work, but they’re not really putting themselves into the work.
So what do we do when we realize there are disengaged employees in our department, or on our team, or in our company?
Many leaders fall into one or more of these classic pitfalls:
Get irritated, start pointing the finger and blaming something or someone.
Get really frustrated and start barking more orders.
Resign to the fact and not even do anything.
About 10 years ago I was working with a professional services organization that had what they diagnosed as “minor employee engagement issues.” After some discussions and questions with a few employees, it was clear what was causing employees to disengage. You probably already guessed that it was a person. Yes, it was their direct manager, Tom.
Tom fell into the classic pitfall of frustration and barking orders.
You see, Tom was told by his Sr. Leader that people were not as engaged as they could be, and he needed to do something about that.
So he did what he thought was the best thing to do.
He did what he had learned was effective - and maybe it’s what you’re doing too...
Tom started barking more orders.
And the situation got worse.
Counterintuitive to Tom (and many leaders in this situation), was a very simple but critical step he was missing. In fact, this step is necessary to avoid any of the classic pitfalls!
We’ll cover this simple and very important step next week in Part 2 of Your Employee Engagement Roadmap - The Single Most Important Step to Improve Employee Engagement. And, we’ll go much more in-depth in a FREE webinar on Wednesday, June 21 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
In this LIVE webinar, Boost Employee Engagement Immediately - Without Spending a Dime you'll learn the secrets to becoming a truly engaging leader within your organization (and in your life!). You can also ask anonymous questions during the webinar specific to the challenges you’re facing with your employees. Sign up to join us here!
Seating is limited so register today!
Cheers!,
Laurie
(1) 2017 Gallup State of the American Workplace Report
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