September 2, 2009

Today I offer 3 more tactics to increase your employees’ engagement in their work, your business, and the ultimate success.

We’ve been looking at the power that comes when key players — executives, leaders, managers — make a stand for engagement in their business culture.

Let’s take that specifically to how managers, leaders, and executives can take a grip on involving

employees…and so engaging them.

Managers can involve employees in deciding to engage or to increase their engagement. By providing information about customer issues, project progress, approaching due dates, managers help their people make more relevant, timely decisions. Do your managers meet to build a common, consistent communication plan for their employees?

Leaders should design communication paths and procedures that enable managers to show employees the direct links between their work and customer satisfaction, product quality, earnings increases, and more. Does your leadership team sit down regularly to test ways employees are told they make vital contributions to business success?

Executives must voice commitment from the business culture level that employees can engage in improving how work is done. This means executives’ voicing that resources are available for learning and development. IT means executives constantly assuring that employees be given time and freedom to use the resources, to generate the ideas, to find better ways to do their work. Do your company’s executives confer on frequently on such imperatives in your business culture?

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Tags: Employee Engagement, Executive, Leadership, Management