5 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement in Your Organisation
This is the third part of a series titled ‘A Guide to Employee Engagement in 2021’. Check other articles from this series:
- In the first part of the series, we discussed the importance of employee engagement in today’s competitive business world.
- In the second, we followed up with the three key components that every organisation must implement to keep their employees engaged, motivated, and productive.
In this piece, we conclude our series by answering one of the most important questions — how to improve employee engagement. Based on our experience of building highly engaged global tech teams, we’ve discovered that 360-degree engagement can be achieved in the following ways.
1. Measure employee engagement
You cannot improve employee engagement if you don’t know what your starting point is. That’s why it’s essential to measure the current rate of engagement in your organisation.
The simplest and most effective way of doing this is to collect data through a survey to understand how your team feels, what areas you need to improve, and create a benchmark for the future. You can either design a custom, relevant, and actionable survey for your business or simply use a pre-existing online survey.
For instance, Gallup’s Q12 survey is one of the best questionnaires to help you improve employee engagement. Through a series of 12 carefully crafted questions curated after studying over 2.7 million workers worldwide, Gallup enables you to understand precisely what your employees need to perform to their maximum potential.
Pulse surveys: the key to increased employee engagement
One of the common mistakes that companies make when conducting surveys is to do them infrequently, sometimes even once a year. Unfortunately, annual surveys fail to capture an employee’s current engagement levels and do not provide a complete understanding of their thought process.
Instead, conduct pulse surveys — frequent, short surveys that accurately capture an employee’s day-to-day thoughts. This also allows you to receive actionable feedback all year round, in turn, helping you improve employee engagement.
And last but certainly not least, review the data, share the outcomes with your team, and dedicate resources to address the ideas that result from the surveys.
2. Prioritise employee wellness
Wellness, both physical and mental, is one of the most overlooked factors in employee engagement. In fact, according to a study, only 62% of employees feel their work positively affects their physical health. Others attribute their stress and anxiety to the negativity of their workplace.
And so, as an organisation, it is important to keep regular tabs on the health of your employees. Does your company encourage a healthy work-life balance? Do you promote a psychologically safe work environment? Does your company culture create a welcoming space that is built on trust? Do your employees have access to healthy foods at work? Addressing these critical questions and implementing practices geared towards promoting employee wellness will significantly improve employee engagement.
Some simple ways to promote employee wellness include sponsoring workout classes, offering fitness subsidies, encouraging a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and fitness talks, offering access to meditation classes, and urging employees to take mental health days to focus on themselves.
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