Employee Engagement

What is Employee Engagement?

Employee engagement is the emotional commitment employees’ have to the organization and its goals. This emotional commitment means engaged employees actually care about their work and their company. They don’t work just for a paycheck, or just for the next promotion, but work on behalf of the organization’s goals. With an engaged staff of employees, you lower your risk of turnover, boost customer satisfaction, and increase your company’s overall chance of success. Engaged Employees lead to higher service, quality, and productivity, which leads to higher customer satisfaction, increased sales, repeat business and referrals, and higher levels of profit.

How Can Strategic Workforce Innovations Help?

Neither you nor your employees can force workplace engagement. It has to be ingrained in your business and within each individual employee. Strategic Workforce Innovations can help by measuring employee engagement within your company. This can be accomplished through an engagement survey tailored specifically for your business. An annual survey can be a very useful and organization-changing tool if used correctly. But such surveys often try to capture too much data all at once. Moreover, organizations sometimes take months to analyze and formulate a response to extensive survey findings. By that time, the lengthy silence may have already left employees wondering if anyone cares.

Strategic Workforce Innovations will create a readiness assessment, partner with you to communicate the reasons for conducting the engagement survey to your workforce, analyze the data and communicate the results to leadership, and take action on the survey results to make improvements in areas that yield low engagement scores. Aside from an annual survey, there are multiple methods that can also be used to measure engagement and improvement the workplace culture.  Not only can SWI help your business to implement these methods, but we can develop a program to help you understand culture change techniques and know how to build an environment of trust.

Organizational culture is among the factors most closely linked to employ engagement. In today’s work environment, people are looking for a great culture.  If you want to attract and keep the best employees, you need to be purposeful about developing and nurturing a company culture that ensures “who you are” as a company is aligned with “who you want to be.”