How to Improve Employee Engagement

Staying engaged in the workplace is important for all employees of your company. However, several factors can decrease employee engagement — notwithstanding a pandemic. Regardless of the external circumstances, employers are responsible for creating positive cultures within their companies that allow their employees to thrive.

But how can this culture be made? Important means of improving culture and engagement is through wellbeing, morale and mission. To learn more about how to implement these aspects to improve employee engagement, read on.

Wellbeing

If employees have physical, mental and financial wellbeing, they will likely be more engaged in your company. So, advocating for and supporting these aspects of wellbeing are critical to increasing employee engagement.?

Perhaps your company can offer gym memberships, or ensure your insurance includes mental health services. Further, financial education can help employees best utilize their wages and savings. Offering wellbeing initiatives is just one strategy to implement for morale-building.

Morale

Improving morale is central to improving engagement. Some basic yet foundational ways to improve morale include (but are not limited to) the following:

●?????Recognition. Acknowledging your employees’ achievements is very beneficial for morale. Whether one-on-one or presenting accolades of an employee/team’s work to the company, recognition can be very encouraging and promote future engagement.

●?????Feedback. Employee engagement is predicated on employer engagement. If you can provide feedback on your employees’ performance they know you care. Further, feedback can improve trust.

●?????Empathy. Another aspect of engagement that can improve trust is empathy. If you can empathize with your employees/teams, then employees feel like they are being heard — and it offers you the opportunity to gain more insight, as well. Feeling like one is heard improves trust.

●?????Physical workspaces. Setting up the physical space in which employees work in an optimized manner can improve morale. Inefficient workspaces — or even ugly/dimly lit — spaces can be frustrating and discouraging. This applies to remote work, as well.

●?????Zoom breaks. “Zoom fatigue” is a real phenomenon, especially in the pandemic age. Make sure employees are taking sufficient breaks from Zoom and encourage them to balance use of different communication technologies, such as the phone.

While all of these initiatives can help improve morale, morale should ultimately be centered around a central purpose for best employee engagement.

Mission

Understanding the goal of a company and one’s role within the endeavor allows employees to understand their roles and further engagement. Using branding strategies to create a mission, along with reinforcing this mission through encouragement and storytelling, helps engagement thrive.

●?????Value-setting. Crafting and establishing a central company story and mission is a key element for employee engagement. If employees know their goal and it is meaningful to them, they are more likely to engage with said goal.

●?????Encouragement. Reinforcing the idea of a mission is also important for engagement because it brings the goal to light in the day-to-day. But use the mission in light of morale-boosting activities, such as recognition and initiatives.

●?????Share stories. Another aspect of recognition and feedback is sharing stories. If employees can share their experiences, everyone can learn and engage — while improving empathy and trust.

Now that you have an idea of how well-being, morale and mission can help your business, you can determine how to implement such strategies in your organization.

Engagement In Your Company

Employee morale and engagement are important in any season — but especially in these times. If your team is navigating low morale and/or engagement, implementing some of the above can help revive your team’s efforts and wellbeing.

We would be happy to help your company improve employee engagement practices. To get started, contact us at Boston Business Growth.