Connecting the Dots to What Matters Most

When employees don’t make a clear connection between performing their daily work and advancing the cause of the organization, they become less invested in the organization’s purpose and priorities. Eventually they become either passively or actively disengaged in their work. Reengaging them is first and foremost about helping them reconnect the dots between what they think and do everyday and what the organization needs them to think and do everyday to achieve the desired organizational results. If they can’t connect the dots, they won’t engage.

Our research shows that only 32% of people in organizations link what they do on a daily basis to their organization’s Key Results—the results that matter most to the organization in terms of crucial outcomes. Moreover, 74% percent of business leaders feel that their organization’s Key Results are not clearly understood or actively pursued throughout the organization.

To increase employee engagement, begin by clarifying the results your employees need to achieve as a team or organization. Then make your best case for why people should sign up, buy in, and invest in getting it done. In the end, employee engagement is about harnessing the power of individuals and teams within the organization to get things done. When people in organizations are actively engaged in tying what they think and do every day to the organization’s Key Results, they develop a deeper sense of personal accountability and ownership for the success of their team and organization. They also bring to bear a whole new level of creative thinking as they devise solutions that may never have occurred to them or to you. In fact, highly engaged employees go beyond the basic requirements of their jobs and often make things happen in ways that surpasses our wildest expectations.

To learn more about how Partners In Leadership’s Accountability Training and Culture Change services can help employees connect the dots between what they do everyday and what matters most to the organization, we invite you to join the Accountability Community at www.partnersinleadership.com, where you can review actual client case studies that illustrate the impact of employee engagement on organizational results.

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