employee engagement Archives

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

10 Meaningful Ideas For How To Improve Employee and Team Engagement

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Team engagement is the affinity for employees to have a mental and emotional attachment to their work or workplace. Simply put, how many people are there for more than just a pay check? When it comes to how engaged your employees are in their work, it is a huge factor for overall team performance. Here are 10 ideas for how to improve team engagement in a meaningful way.

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

How To Engage Employees Close To Retirement

A trend was emerging in my office during performance review time. When I asked employees who are winding down their career to retirement what their learning goals were, they didn’t have any, and seemed to be satisfied with that. They both said the same thing, “at this stage of my career, I’m not interested in taking on large new projects”. As a manager, I do not want people on my team who feel that they can just coast for the next few years until retirement. As a leader, how do you encourage a knowledge transfer from one generation to the other and engage employees close to retirement?

February 23, 2020March 3, 2020

Why You Should Care if Employees Think Decisions Are Fair

If you have ever had employees grumbling about the fairness of work assignments, distribution of work, vacation approvals, or amount of shift work then you are not alone. Unfortunately for middle managers, this is not an exhaustive list of complaints that can lead to the perception of unfairness.

An employee’s perception on what is fair is all that matters, not your attempt as a manager to make things equitable. Human brains are wired to perceive the fairness of how financial rewards are distributed. It’s not much of a stretch to apply this brain function to decisions that occur around them in the workplace.