There’s a lot of information and alternative theories about how to improve employee engagement and most company owners and senior HR leaders already have some experience working on strategies to improve the morale and motivation of their employees.

However, many organisations are still operating without complete clarity about what good employee engagement should look like and where their employees sit in terms of their levels of engagement.

Here, we explore a few fundamental aspects of employee engagement and how to categorise the engagement of your employees so you can build a more targeted strategy for making lasting change within the context of your organisation’s culture and values.

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Employee engagement is a powerful asset and, when it is unleashed effectively within an organisation, can offer huge long-term benefits ranging from increased motivation and output, better customer satisfaction levels and overall integration across your workforce.

You may not have the worst employee engagement levels in the city, but it’s quite possible that a few key barriers still exist in your business that prevent your employees from truly connecting with your brand and embracing their roles.
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Having accountability and performance tracking in the workplace is a vital part of all successful organizations, but companies will do well not to focus too much on the role of extrinsic motivation.
While reaching set targets is important and can encourage people to push harder for certain milestones and objectives in the hope of various rewards, intrinsic motivation that is aligned with company values is a much more powerful driver of productivity and employee engagement.
To do this it is necessary to focus on the acts and behaviors that warrant recognition within the context of a brand’s values and ethos, as well as rewarding people for reaching commercial targets. A good recognition program should therefore be aligned with the core values of the organization and not just sales targets or other such indicators of success.
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It is important that the experience your employees have working in your company accurately reflects your organization’s distinct brand values. The attitude they have when interacting with customers and clients will be heavily influenced by the way they have been treated by managers and leadership individuals.

Employees will also emulate the way their colleagues behave, so ensuring that the employee life cycle is consistent for all your employees is important in building a business with strong organizational alignment and employee engagement.
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As lockdowns and restrictions around the world start to ease and more people are allowed to head back to their offices, there has been a somewhat understandable confusion in many companies over how to approach work from home arrangements.

Some organizations have stressed the need to have their workforce back at desks as soon as possible, while others have fully embraced virtual working, allowing employees to make their own decision about where (and even when) they want to work.
While the circumstances might be very different depending on your business type and sector, the reality is that accepting this massive shift in work culture and finding ways to adapt your systems and employee experience strategy is crucial for maintaining productivity and employee engagement.
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Having opportunities to learn and grow is a major driver of employee satisfaction and a key selling point for organizations in the global jobs market. Despite having a grasp of this concept, many businesses are hesitant to invest in employee training and development programs.

This might be due to fears of costs, impact on productivity when employees time is taken up by non-essential work activities, and the risk of employees upskilling and leaving you for a role in another company. However, while there are some careful considerations to be made about how you integrate development opportunities in the workplace and how to achieve a good return on investment, the data shows that companies that invest in their employees perform better.

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