Culture of engagement doesn’t just grow on trees.

A true culture of employee engagement is anything but low-hanging fruit. In fact, you’re not likely to find it growing from any tree. To build a business culture that truly promotes employee engagement, you need a culture of engagement meeting checklist.

Here’s why.

First Reason. Business culture deserves talk and elaboration.
You may already know the culture (values, norms, standards) you want your company to hold. But expressing it clearly to those in your organization requires focus, effort, and testing. For your culture to have greatest impact, it must be expressed in your formal business culture. A formal culture deserves attention from the heads of business. The business and its stakeholders deserve a culture that’s been given such attention.

Second Reason.  A business needs its very own definition of Employee Engagement.
Employee engagement has become a buzz phrase in the past few years. That means it goes by many definitions. All the definitions I’ve read have a common theme. Yet, they do have major differences. You want to ensure that your culture’s engagement is customized to your organization’s wants and needs. Ownership of your culture and its engagement depends on your people helping shape its definition.

Third Reason. In-depth focus and effort need time.
Reasons 1 and 2 need in-depth focus. Efforts to piece together a statement of culture, an agreement around employee engagement, and a combination of the two, are just that: piecework. E-mail discussions and 60-minute team meetings get you to consensus way too slowly, if ever. Ample time (full day or more) for the purpose of incorporating employee engagement into your business culture delivers much greater results.

If you’d like more information about what your ‘engagement culture meeting’ needs, check this.

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  1. [...] we looked at why you want a special meeting. If you missed that post, here’s the link. Tomorrow we will distinguish the three types of meetings for your three types of engagement [...]

    Pingback by Employee engagement | Business culture | Wright Results — April 28, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

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