Engagement

The emotional and intellectual commitment of team members to their work, their goals, and their organisation, resulting in enhanced collaboration, productivity, and overall satisfaction.

What is Engagement?

Employee engagement is the level of enthusiasm, commitment, and connection an employee feels towards their job.

Involvement: Employees are enthusiastic and involved in their work and workplace.

Commitment: Employees are dedicated to their employer and the organization’s goals.

Connection: Employees feel an emotional connection to their organization, work, and team.

Why is Engagement important?
According to an analysis by Gallup, organizations with high employee engagement report a 22% increase in employee productivity.
Note that disengaged employees can still perform but over the long term it can lead to an unhappy workplace and staff turnover.

Free resources on Engagement

Tips for improving Engagement in your team

To truly engage people requires a personal approach, Different people will feel engaged for different reasons so take time with each team member and use the proved ‘Self-Determination Theory’ as a guide:

Purpose: discuss the purpose of the team (why does it exist?) and how that connects to what is important to the team member

Autonomy: explore the level of freedom that the team leader has to make decisions and how comfortable they are with it. A simple guide to avoiding micromanagement is to be clear on the ‘what’ but let them decide the ‘how’

Relatedness: how does the team member connect with others in the team? This is a basic human need and while friendship is not needed, people feel more motivated and engaged if they get on with those around them. This requires investing in 1:1 connection between team members, not just for people to encounter each other in a team meeting.

Squadify will give a read-out on these three factors in Engagement for the whole team. See below for options to get started.

Squadify Connects, nano podcast episodes for personal development with practical tips to build engagement and accelerate performance.

We Not Me, a popular podcast all about how humans connect
to get stuff done together. Packed with great guests who lead teams and communities.

How can Squadify help?

Wouldn’t you like to know what your team members think about the Engagement in the team? Explore a Squadify Accelerate Workshop – ‘an hour of team power’!
Use a full Squadify Team Tracker to understand this issue more deeply and then track and improve the conditions that will build Engagement.
If you’d like coaching to close this gap and accelerate your team, talk to us about the Squadify Power Bundle. Click the “Book a call button” for a no-strings chat.

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