One of the Top 10 Tips to Keep Yourself Engaged was that you select a scoring scale and rate your own engagement–in your work, your department, your company–every week.
I want to make that as easy for you as possible because it will make your own engagement improve. And that will improve the engagement among your employees.
This series of suggestions is available for download.
And here it is now:
Select your scoring scale:
1-5, A-F, 100 points….
Whatever you select, be consistent. And stick with it for at least 1 month before you switch.
Follow a scoring process:
At week’s end, reflect on your overall engagement and give yourself a score. Keep in mind all the types of engagement, all the opportunities for engagement, all the small and easily-overlooked engagement items. Score fairly.
Date: Your Score:
Ask and answer these questions:
- Which occurred more often: conscious engagement or natural (re)action?
- What one activity received most of my engagement during the week?
- What one activity did I tend to avoid, to skirt engaging in? Why?
- How much, how often did I discuss employee engagement (maybe not in those exact terms) during the week?
- What did I learn new about my engagement this week?
- What did I learn new about managing others toward engagement this week?
With those several answers in mind, review your score. Change it if you wish:
Date: Your Score:
Reserve these score sheets in their own folder. Over a period of time, review how your score progress. What conclusions do you draw?
Tags: Employee Engagement, Management
