Organisations barking up wrong tree with employee engagement strategies
By Liz Hall
Many employers and coaches are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to the hot topic of employee engagement.
Employee engagement remains critically low because although it is employers’ number one concern, many are getting their strategies wrong. Employers need to shift the focus in their employee engagement strategies away from big-picture issues such as charismatic leadership and work/life balance towards rebuilding employees’ trust both in their employer and immediate manager, and the relationship between manager and direct report. These were...
Thanks for your comments, Victor. Absolutely- trust is so important. And feeling listened to and heard too. Employee engagement is going to be even more important in the wake of the Comprehensive Spending Review too, I imagine.
Very well put. When working with clients interested in engagement surveys, I spend a lot of time talking about trust. If a client is not willing to act on the results, no matter what they are, I recommend they not do the survey or at least limit the survey items to areas they are willing to act upon. My former employer spent $150,000 on a survey then trashed the results saying it wasn’t anything they didn’t already know (of course that was incorrect). Imagine what that did for trust in the organization!