Thursday’s here. We’re offering Creative Encouragement. A look at what that is and how it increases engagement among employees.

Creative Encouragement keeps your employees’ fires burning: their creative fires and their engagement fires. (Note: as you engage in creating encouragement opportunities, you keep both those fire burning in you also!)

Creative Encouragement can be either one of two factors.

Creative Encouragement 1: encouragement that creatively motivates employee engagement. The evidence affirms that recognition and appreciation contribute to a business’s level of employee engagement. Consider the connection between using your Creative Self/Intelligence to encourage employee engagement. If you wish your encouragement to be noticed and to have a continuation effect on employees, be creative. Celebrate their engagement and performance in new and different ways.

Bonus Tip: Ask your employees, “What are some different types of recognition and celebration you would enjoy?”

Bonus Tip 2: Invite your employees to orchestrate their own recognition celebrations. (How’s that for engagement!?)

Creative Encouragement 2: encouragement that motivates employees’ creative engagement.
Employees given opportunities to use their creativity and creative intelligence are more likely to engage. Build creativity into your business culture as correlative to employee engagement. Here’s how:

• Allow teams to “go creative.” Give permission for new ideas, different perspectives.
• Provide opportunities for them to synergize ideas, brainstorm beyond the box.
• Provide situations that take advantage of a relaxed, fun, unconstrained environment to stimulate creative intelligence.

Both Creative Encouragement 1 and 2 pay off. Both keep the engagement churning by keeping it part of your business culture.

Find us Friday: Tomorrow will give a quick summary and links regarding this weeks 3-part look at creativity and employee engagement. Hope to see you here.

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