Engaging Employees

Our research shows that only 24% of people in organizations can link what they do on a daily basis to their organization’s key results (key results are what matter most to the organization in terms of must deliverables). Moreover, 74% of business leaders feel that their organization’s key results are not clearly understood or actively pursued throughout the organization.

Here’s the problem. When people cannot make the connection between performing their daily work and advancing the cause of the organization, they become less invested in the organization’s purpose and priorities. To increase the personal engagement of your people, begin by clarifying the results they 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, engaging the hearts and minds of your people is about harnessing the power of their individual and collective ability to get things done.

By engaging the heart and creating a deep sense of personal accountability for the success of the team or organization, you engage the most vital part of a person’s conviction to get things done. By engaging the mind, you ignite their most creative thinking, as they devise solutions that may never have occurred to you or them. The power of gaining people’s hearts and minds in getting things done may seem obvious, but the price you pay when they only apply their hands and feet to a task can be enormous. People that invest their hearts and minds, take accountability, and go beyond the basic requirements of their jobs often make things happen in ways that surpass our wildest expectations.

To learn more about how Partners In Leadership’s Training and Consulting Services can help you more fully engage your employees, 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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