Keeping Your Best Employees By Keeping Them Engaged

Getting your best employees involved and engaged is a matter of respect and trust. You’ve got to be comfortable with their knowledge, skills, abilities, integrity, and interest in their work in order to feel as though you are staffed by engaged employees who are doing their best every day.

Typically speaking, if you are dealing with disengaged employees your issues are not “on the floor” but rather in the offices. Management and Leadership need to do their part to bring employees to a level of engagement if your initiatives are to succeed.

Is there anything you are doing, whether easily defined or not, that is keeping your employees from being properly engaged in their work? What are the obstacles you are dealing with right now, and what can you do to remove them?

Together with other leaders set aside time to review and debrief the following concern areas, using a whiteboard or flipchart can assist with listing and fleshing out your ideas. Discuss and create your list one item at a time. Do not allow any of the items to go without at least 2 responses. Once listed you should begin to formulate steps to remedy any roadblocks:

1. Policies that might be preventing employee engagement:

2. Practices that might be preventing employee engagement:

3. Procedures that might be preventing employee engagement:

4. Systems that might be preventing employee engagement:

5. Expectations that might be preventing employee engagement: