What does employee engagement have to do with intuition? Simply this, trusting your intuition to put focus and energy on your employees’ engagement is likely worthwhile. But let’s get there one step at a time.
What is intuition? In a business context, intuition is the power to select from opposing alternatives (yes/no) based on one’s experience and subconscious, without intellectual or analytical investigation. Some business leaders trust it a great deal; others are more skeptical.
What does intuition have to do with employee engagement? Leaders have the opportunity to make employee engagement a key component of their business culture and thus of their business strategy. Increasing evidence shows employee engagement benefits a company in many ways. Yet there remains a sense that employee engagement is a “soft concern”. Consequently appreciation of employee engagement often comes more from hunch (intuition) than from fact.
So, how can I make engagement and intuition work together? There is more and more hard data on the advantages of engagement. However, if you still rely on intuition that more employee engagementwill be good for your business, check these steps:
- Gather situation awareness. How engaged are your employees? What desired improvements do you wish to see that engagement might generate?
- Evaluate your intuition consciously, deliberately. Laid against the current environment, does your intuition’s answer make sense?
- Examine your intuitive history. How reliable has your intuition been in the past?
You can wait for more detailed, statistical proof that employee engagement is a cause and source of business success. But if you’d rather not delay, a little intuition may serve you well.
Wright Results’ Culture of Engagement Retreats afford how to build engagement into executive, leader, and manager levels of your business culture. Intuition is no small part of the process.
