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How to Increase Employee Engagement

Are managers clear around how to best engage their employees? Maybe they too suffer from lack of full engagement. Gallup’s most recent research finds that only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work.

I found at Dale Carnegie Training an infographic on “The Importance of Employee Engagement.” If you look at their stats:

$11 BILLION is lost annually due to employee turnover
Companies with Engage Employees outperform others up to 202%
71% of all employees are not fully engaged

The site also provides drivers of disengagement, traits of an engaged employee and guidelines to help lead the way to increase employee’s engagement with the company.

Mindful Management

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What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose, accepting our thoughts and feelings without judgment and becoming aware of what is happening around us.

Mindfulness has its roots in spiritual communities, though is integrated more in the business world as a tool to build healthy work environments. It helps managers pay attention to what is occurring in the present and to make corrections that support team members and the business goals.

How to Be an Effective Manager

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Managing employees takes time and energy to build a healthy working relationship with each person. With daily business and employee demands, it’s challenging to focus on what is a priority as both can be important at the same time. Business and employees are integrated into any successful company as one will not operate without the other. Since people are critical to the success in meeting your deliverables, how can you best manage your team?

Do You Hold Your Employees Accountable?

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Do you have team members that don’t meet deliverables? If so, how can you keep them on track with their performance?
Accountability!

What is accountability?
The basic definition is to account for one’s action. Take responsibility for one’s performance and the overall success of the result.

Where is the Manager’s Accountability?
In managing employees, you are responsible for you team’s results. How can you instill accountability in them and decrease your need to macro manage the details of their work? Here are some ideas:

Do You Empower or Micromanage?

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When managing employees, it’s tempting to want to manage all the details of an employee’s work in the guise of helping them be more productive. Does it actually help? Rarely. Instead what you manage to do is create frustrations for you as well as the employee. Managers who need to micromanage usually have a large dose of anxiety which propels them to control everything that is happening.

Managers are not trained in coaching and counseling so they use the tool they know best – control.

Instead clear direction and expectations allows the employee to engage and contribute in a more effective way to meet business goals.

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