When active talk about a hot topic begins to ebb, the action that topic warrants ebbs too.
IOW, one sure way to keep engagement on your team’s action list is to keep it on your team’s short list of conversation topics.
Here are e easy to implement tips to keep Employee Engagement on your people’s lips:
1. Set immediate engagement goals. If you challenge your team to find, practice, or observe engagement on the extreme short-term, it moves to the front of their mind. That makes it talkable. Examples:
- Observe a co-worker actively engaged today.
- Increase positive customer feedback by 1 “point” today.
- Share an employee engagement how-to from another company or another industry.
2. Distribute a short, relevant engagement article. Make an extremely short (and so, quickly readable) story about engagement or list of engagement tips available for everyone to see. Then bring it into conversation during the day:
- What did you think of those 5 ways to improve customer engagement?
- Do you see similarities between our situation and the one in that article I sent out?
- How do you think we could adapt that article’s suggestions to fit what we have here?
Hint: there are plenty of blogs providing stories, suggestions, tips, etc., concerning employee engagement.
3. If you begin each day with an Instant Meeting, make employee engagement a regular item on the agenda. These meetings are no more than 15 minutes, so the time given to engagement must be short and focused. Some suggestions:
- A specific engagement-focus for the day. [Share your daily engagement focus ideas via the Comment box below!]
- Around-the-group individual affirmations: “Today I will engage by ______.”
- An engagement quotation you read and invite quick, short responses to.
Keep in mind, the immediate purpose of the above suggestions is to get and keep your people talking about engagement. That’s because talking means thinking and thinking can lead to doing.
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Tags: Communication, Employee Engagement, Management, performance improvement
