What is Employee Engagement?
Employee Engagement is not a game you play on Fun Fridays or a team outing once a month or “lunch with the CEO” once in a quarter. Employee engagement is a consistent effort to create a workplace that can sustain a winning work culture.
Employee Engagement must have clear objective – create a work environment that employees will be motivated to get up every morning and head towards with a purpose in mind.
What does Employee Engagement mean for an Employers?
Employee Engagement is the emotional intelligence that you showcase towards your employees.
Employee Engagement is what makes your organization a “human workplace”.
Employee Engagement is to figure out ways such that employees are motivated to be their best and work at their best.
Employee Engagement is to understand and figure out the loopholes in your work process that only the employees can tell you. Just like a customer is the best person to provide feedback for a service or product, your employees are the best people to provide feedback on your workplace.
Employee Engagement is to get your employees aligned with your organizational goals in the most seamless and positive way.
Employee Engagement is to let your employees know that “you are listening” and that “you are there” for them.
Employee Engagement is NOT about deceiving employees into believing something that there isn’t just to get them motivated. They are smarter than you might expect and can sense a lie when they hear one. Remember, there are far more employees than there are senior managers and their collective understanding alone will bust-open any such efforts, causing severe harm to your organization.
Employee Engagement is NOT about learning what other employees are saying about other employees. Again, this will self-implode as it always does.
What does Employee Engagement mean to Employees?
Employee Engagement is what makes you “feel at home” when you enter your office space.
Employee Engagement is what makes you realize that you are an integral part of something big.
Employee Engagement is what gives you that sense of purpose everyday morning when you head to work.
Employee Engagement is what creates that healthy environment that keeps you motivated even when the going gets tough but you still remain focused on the organization’s goals nonetheless.
Employee Engagement is what creates that work environment where you can put in the right effort and receive the right rewards and recognition.
Employee Engagement is the sense of significance in your work no matter how big or small it might be. It is where individual contributions hold their importance in the bigger picture.
Employee Engagement is what makes you feel you are doing something that is having an “impact”.
