Employee engagement should be every leaders number one priority because when you have an engaged, highly motivated team then everything becomes that much easier and it helps to achieve amazing results and drive customer satisfaction.
With employee engagement lagging at less than a 33 percent in the US it's clear that there is a lot of room for improvement in this area.
We shouldn't look to overcomplicate this, it doesn't always need to a major program, we can significantly increase engagement by following these 65 simple tips:
1. Keep Your Team Informed
2. Set Clear Goals and Expectations
3. Don't Bullshit
4. Be Authentic
5. Don't Sugar Coat Unpleasant Assignment
6. Be Consistent
7. Be Complimentary
8. Be Patient
9. Set a Good Example
10. Ask for Input
11. Show You Care
12. Reward Creativity
13. Challenge Them By Give Them Challenging Assignments
14. Offer training
15. Discuss Their Career Goals
16. Give Them Opportunities to Shine
17. Don't Micromanage
18. Give Constructive Feedback Rather Than Constructive Criticism
19. Offer Help
20. Be Humble
21. Give rewards and recognition freely
22. Encourage Worklife Balance
23. Be Transparent and Explain Decisions
24. Involve Them In Decision Making
25. Promote engaging managers
26. Give Credit
27. Be Generous With Your Time
28. Create an Environment You'd Want to Work In
29. Keep Meetings to a Minimum
30. Be Seen
31. Listen
32. Have fun
33. Give the work meaning, a sense of purpose
34. Don't overload people, set them up for success
35. Delegate interesting work
36. Empower people
37. Smile
38. Make Every Encounter an Opportunity to Inspire People
39. Share Power
40. Reduce control
41. Encourage collaboration and cooperation, rather than competition
42. Act as a mentor
43. Play to peoples strengths
44. Be a Boss You'd want to work for
45. Ask Questions
46. Celebrate Birthday and Anniversaries
47. Be Non-Judgemental
48. Use Influence not Power
49. Say Thank You
50. Ask, Don't Command
51. Apologise For Your Mistakes
52. Be Flexible
53. Be supportive of mistake and failure
54. Focus on solutions, not who's to blame
55. Be Accountable
56. Promote From within where possible
57. Be realistic
58. Celebrate success
59. Let your team decide on the rewards they want
60. Encourage the teams to recognise each other
61. Be Inclusive
62. Be Open To Different Ways of Doing Things
63. Be Engaged
64. Be on First Name Terms
65. Be Happy
Many of these habits cost little to nothing to implement but the return on investment can be very high.
What habits are you going to adopt to drive help engage your employees?