The more often you ask employees about their engagement, the more opportunity you give them to engage. They engage in thinking about their engagement, if nothing else.
The more use you make of their answers to your questions, the more momentum you give your company’s employee engagement efforts. Hearing and seeing attention paid their answers inspires further engagement.
Why not make use of a series of interview questions to uncover your employees’ views of engagement, especially their own individual engagement?
Consider interview questions such as:
- What are specific ways you engage in your work?
- Does your engagement extend beyond your specific job? In what ways? To what areas?
- What are the positive results of your engagement for our company?
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You can use these questions in a variety of ways. How about:
- Use one question as an ice-breaker for a staff or department meeting. Repeat with different questions for subsequent meetings.
- Circulate the questions among employees. Based on the quantity/quality of answers received, initiate task forces to generate employee engagement actions.
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You can derive a variety of engagement generators from the answers you receive. For instance:
- Use especially enticing answers (kept anonymous) to stimulate follow-on discussion in small groups or via e-mail.
- Initiate a blog that targets employees’ views on employee engagement.
- Repurpose the interview Q&A as part of your new employee orientation program.
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The above sample questions (and more) and the above applications for employees’ answers (and more) are downloadable in a one-page pdf. Click here.
Tags: Communication, Employee Engagement, performance improvement
