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Ways to Sustain Employee Engagement at your Workplace.

Every organization puts in the required efforts to adopt a mission, vision, and a set of goals for itself. But they will have no meaning unless its employees align with them too. Only employee engagement can provide the sense of purpose needed to make such alignment possible. Employee engagement determines many things such as employees’ performance, absenteeism, productivity, and even profitability for any organization.

Employee engagement needs to be sustained overtime to ensure that the organization can reap the benefits of such engagement. Some strategies to ensure this include:

  1. Empower your employees to navigate their own growth.

Career growth doesn’t have to mean simply developing skills relevant to a current position. It can also mean finding opportunities for personal growth or developing skills that will allow them to take on a new role in the future. Ask your employees to assess their current strengths and passions. After that, you can work with your employee to make the career path useful to the company’s goals and targets.

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2. Eliminating anxiety and stress

Energy alone is not sufficient to motivate someone to stay committed to a specific behavior. Companies today expect a lot from their employees, but companies committed to employee engagement implement policies and practices which help their employees not suffer from any work-related stress or anxiety. They look for ways to increase their energy and ways to inspire and motivate them. Employees have the freedom to choose the toughest of projects without feeling overwhelmed. They have the flexibility needed to balance work with life and manage both without any pressure from either of them.

3. Improving the role of leadership at the workplace

Leadership has a role to play in creating a sustained employee engagement, by showing interest in employee well-being and performance with the necessary expressions of appreciation. When companies have leadership teams that are committed to ethical values, it becomes easier to develop sustainable employee engagement. People perform better when they are motivated to do so out of their own volition rather than from any fear or stress about negative consequences for non-performance. Leadership needs to focus on winning the trust and confidence of employees through establishing an organizational culture that reflects their interest in the employees.

4. Your company should have the right way to manage performances.

This strategy includes the ability to communicate better and to ensure that a task is assigned to people who have the skills and capability needed to cope with its demands. Workplaces need to encourage people to support each other and work in teams. Collaboration to achieve their targets together helps employees to go beyond the need for individual achievement alone.  Such workplaces are less stressful and more conducive to sustainable employee engagement.

5. Fair treatment to all employees

Fairness to everyone does not mean giving an equal number of tasks to everyone. It is more about understanding their capabilities, personality, and confidence levels before assigning any work to them and them providing them the necessary help when they need it. People are all made different and they all have different skills and needs. Understanding them and meeting these needs is an essential requirement for any performance management program. Such support is what will create a sustainable model for employee engagement with a clear path to career growth for the advancement of each employee.

6. Developing self and other awareness assessments

This strategy helps in improving team communication and collaborations at the workplace. These assessments can help employees generate self-awareness so they can better understand how they are needed to work and how to best interact with others. When employees are made aware of others’ results, they can better tailor communications and interactions with one another. This increased self and other awareness can contribute to higher-performing work teams and a collaborative work environment.

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Managers who want sustainable employee engagement in their performance management systems can use these strategies in their operational and behavioral processes. They help to create an engagement with employees, motivate them to identify with organizational goals, motivate them to strive harder to deliver on their assigned tasks well, and keep them committed and proud to be working for the organization.

Mombasa, Kenya.

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