Ways to Enhance your Employee Engagement

Ways to Enhance your Employee Engagement

For business owners and those in the HR world, making commitments that ensure your employees are happy, motivated and engaged even through the most challenging of times and beyond are vital.

Some businesses will be embarking on an employee engagement strategy for the first time while others will be looking for some inspiration to take their engagement to the next level, so here’s some helpful tips to give your strategy a boost.

There is no point embarking on an employee engagement journey if you don’t genuinely care about your employees. Employee engagement endeavours whether a benefits programme, rewards scheme or wellbeing strategy, need to be tied to some sort of emotional anchor rather than solely being driven by a quest to be more profitable as a business.

Engaged workforces have financial benefits, but a successful engagement strategy that has a genuine impact on employees puts them first, rather than profit.

Basically, avoid doing anything just for the sake of it.

Employee benefits, for example, should not be treated as a tick-box exercise. While implementing an employee benefits programme is a positive step, it won’t drive engagement across your business if it’s not aligned to the interests of your employees.

A genuine drive to save your employees money on their everyday shopping through your benefits platform, however, will make your employees feel valued, appreciated and supported by your business. As times change, discounts at cinemas, theme parks, days out and restaurants are great but should be considered part of the story.

Think about how you want to have a positive impact on your employees’ lives whether that’s creating job satisfaction, supporting their wellbeing, rewarding their hard work or driving them to develop.

You can then devise an employee engagement strategy that will make a real impact.

Productivity is not always a reliable indication that your employees are engaged. Communicating on an ongoing basis will give you a consistent insight into how engaged your employees are and whether your activities are hitting the mark or not and makes them feel valued.

While there isn’t one magic solution to employee engagement, you’ll put yourself in a much better position by making sure all of your actions contribute to a positive employee experience.

As a general rule of thumb, happy and healthy employees are more motivated, productive and engaged. If an employee is dealing with a physical, emotional or financial challenge, for example, it’s unlikely that they’ll be able to work at their best and, in some cases, they might not even be fit to work at all.

Wellbeing support is therefore a necessary aid that gives your employees the ability to thrive both at work and in life but shouldn’t be delivered on an ad-hoc basis, it should be delivered as a holistic programme that’s tailored to the needs of your workforce.

Your wellbeing programme should give your employees the tools to manage their day-to-day lives better, both in work and at home. A balanced solution focuses on the three main areas of wellbeing: emotional, physical and financial.

Whether you support wellbeing through advice and resources from external providers, your benefits, your reward programme or simply by creating an environment with employee wellbeing at its heart, it’s all about improving the quality of your employees’ lives so they can feel and function their best at work and beyond.

Another important thing you can do to motivate and retain employees is to invest in their personal development. To unlock your employees’ true potential and help them be more efficient, productive and, in general, better at what they do, Learning and Development is the key.

A good Learning and Development programme will inspire and motivate your employees to do their job to the best of their ability. This kind of investment in your employees will encourage them to invest in your business too through their loyalty, commitment and performance and reward them on a personal level too feeling valued and appreciated.

So, if we appreciate our staff can be our biggest asset, appropriate rewards are a great way to do this.

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