The Real Truth Behind Why Your Team Might Be Suffering From Low Employee Engagement.
A lot of leaders know it’s vital for their teams to be and remain engaged. In fact, you may be one of them. You may really strive for a culture in which there’s amazingly positive employee engagement—an environment where people feel happy, and morale is both up and highly collaborative. A place where performance and productivity soar. Goals get hit. Great results happen.
Yet in spite of knowing how important employee engagement is, you might also be struggling with this aspect of your leadership. It’s a common issue. Gallup polls show 66 percent of employees in the United States are either disengaged (51%) or actively disengaged (15%).
So what can you do? How can you turnaround the negativity that undermines your culture and its people? For 60+ years, MAP has been successfully coaching clients on this very challenge. Here’s what we believe leaders must do, three vital steps you’ve got to take if great employee engagement is truly your goal:
- Face the hard truth. When struggling with employee engagement, many leaders, managers and HR departments don’t realize they are a big part of the problem. They don’t understand how their own leadership pitfalls, blind spots and oversights contribute to a dysfunctional, disempowered workplace. However, with the help of objective feedback, insightful tools like the DiSC® assessment, a strategic plan for change, and an accountability coach to help drive execution, we’ve seen many such people not just “see the light” but move well beyond the struggles and succeed.
- Believe in your people. If you’ve got the right people on board (and in the right roles), it’s critical to trust in their potential and demonstrate that you do. This means communicating to them that they are valued and honoring their worth on a regular basis. How? For starters, celebrating and reward their wins in meaningful and appropriate ways. But also empower them with challenges, backed by whatever motivators, training or upskilling they’ll need to experience and achieve success.
- Use an accountability system. A lot of leaders waste time simply hoping things will get better with their workplace cultures. But as we always tell our clients, “Hope is not a strategy.” So what is a solid strategy, or one you can use, execute against and trust? A proven accountability system. Specifically, one that creates disciplined, consistent action around what’s vital and gets you the results you need around employee engagement and empowerment.
With the MAP Management System®, you can make 2022 the year you finally build and boost employee engagement in your organization. Start now, contact MAP today!
