How to create an Engaging Workplace and Increase engagement among people for success!

According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs, 67% of the workforce not engaged and 18% actively disengaged.

Employee engagement profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. It is one of the foundation elements of success in Business Strategy, Team Collaboration and Innovation results. So, what are the practical steps to ensuring people are engaging and they feel their work matters?

• Define, agree and refer to a VALUE that gives a sense of purpose to individuals and bring people together. The power of WHY in the core of business purpose.
• The Strategy execution  Success and Challenge are about how well people adapt it and work together to achieve objectives
• Set up a team for success not just creating groups on purpose with right priorities.
• Happy Employees make Happy customers with empathy, care and quality support…
• Satisfy employees will save cost and increase ROI as a result of high productivity and performance.
• People need leaders, not managers - Moving from Boss to Coach mindset.
• It is not about hiring the best people, it is about building up and supporting an individual with the right capabilities and mindsets.
• Think Big, Start Small, Learn Fast. Learning makes unknown, known so it takes a risk to learn.

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• Communicate Business Principles, Value Proposition, Value Statement, Business constrains… 
• Engage employees in initial strategy development, review and execution process not just communicate the final result
• Checking with employees to ensure that the business strategy aligns with the ways that employees currently work and the ways that they want to work.
• Asking them to set up their desirable objectives and growth path in their KPI.
• Encourage people to have an internal or/and external Coach to assist an individual at their work growth.
• Set up a Community of Practice to discover, learn and experiment together such as Co-Lab
• Build up a Social Club where people build a personal relationship out of their workplace. Playing a team game is key.
• Communicate the expected work quality and results with individuals.
• Ensure people are working on a meaningful Work that they believe it is essential for team or business success.
• Phycological safety; to raise their concerns and voice to challenge their managers or decision-makers.
• A set of Meetings on purpose:
  • Regular 1:1 Meeting between Manager & Employee- Build up trust, personal concern, understand perspectives and feeling
  • Regular Voice of People Meeting: People raise their insights, ideas, needs, concerns, problems BUT their Manager just LISTEN without any response during the session, just takes notes and fill out the table and make it transparent to follow  up on the next meeting

• Daily or Weekly Scrum Meeting  for 15 mins in the morning: Increase team collaboration and focus
• Regular Group Learning meeting - Share knowledge, ideas and lesson learned through a structured conversation.
• Ad-hoc Virtual Team Open Meeting- An Online continues session where everyone works at the same time together.

The next coming articles are

• How to Build up a Volunteer Team to co-create together.
• How to Build up a High-Performance Team to provide knowledge and innovation assistance to others.

Bobak Zamani

T-Shaped Idea Transformer | LIFE OF THOUGHT Pty. Ltd.

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