Employee Engagement Tips and Benefits

Employee engagement is all about how we create the conditions in which employees offer more of their capability and potential”.

How would you explain the concept of Employee Engagement!!!

1. Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization.
2. It helps employees to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
3. Its based on trust, integrity, two-way commitment and communication between an organization and its members.
4. It is an approach that increases the chances of business success, contributing to organizational and individual performance, productivity and well-being.
5. It can be measured.
6. It varies from poor to great. It can be nurtured and dramatically increased; it can be lost and thrown away.
7. Disengaged employees at scale can have a significant impact on the business they work for.
   Turning this around? Not as hard or complicated as it seems

1. Encourage Employees to Speak Up

Every employee should get the same and equal opportunity to open up, speak up. Bring out his/ her ideas or views on the product he/she is dealing with. This help to bring out the best in them and lead to company growth.
Creative Social Intranet Solution provides features such as one to one chat, group chat, live video conferences, etc which enhances further communication factors in a large organization.

2. Help Your Employees to Get to Know Each Other Better

Employee interaction with each other is a must in today’s fast-growing multinationals having a huge employee base.

Creative Social Intranet helps employees to know each other better both socially and personally, interact, share ideas and views. This will help build out new friendship goals as well.

3. Serve as a Mentor

Mentoring enhances your professional life as well as protégés. It sounds like an obligation, but serving as a mentor has its benefits too. Here are some of the benefits.

1. Learn new things.
2. Share your knowledge with young professionals.
3. Build additional professional relationships.
4. Develop leadership and management skills.
5. Giving back to your industry.

4. Only Reward Employees for a Job Well Done

Appreciation in any form is always overwhelming and welcomed by employees. Even a small recognization and reward for a job well done can help to bring out the best in them. It also assists in healthy competition.

5. Focus on Collaboration & Working Together

Professional Interaction is defined as a mutual or reciprocal action or exchange. To interact is to act together towards others or with others. Interactions are a key component of professionalism.

6. Encourage Positive Health & Wellness

Company Intranet has been forefront in conducting and directing employees to impactful camps and driving numerous workshops for different sections of the company.

7. Clarify Goals and Responsibilities

You won’t be able to understand what is going right or wrong in the organization unless you ask about it. To check the functioning of the company conduct an anonymous survey related to satisfaction of the employee on a regular basis. Ask the employee what they want less of and what they want more of.

8. For New Hires, Start on the First Day, Perfect the Onboarding Process

Start it on day one: Most organizations do have clear new talent acquisition strategies. However, they lack employee retention strategies. Effective recruitment and orientation programs are the first building blocks to be laid on the first day of the new employee. Managers should be careful in pooling out the potential talent of the new employee through effective recruitment.

9. Help Employees Move Forward in Their Career and Education

Every organization looks for entrepreneurial-minded workers who can move the business forward.
In order to move ahead in your career, you have to generate a lot of energy,
Creative Social Intranet has been time and again honored for its commitment to excellence and innovation. We have not only won accolades but also the trust of our customers, partners, and employees.

10. Hire Based Upon Traits and Attitude

Give employees appropriate training: Help employees update themselves increasing their knowledge and skills by giving appropriate pieces of training. Generally, it is understood that when employees get to know more about their job, their confidence increases thereby being able to work without much supervision from their immediate managers which in turn builds their self-efficacy and commitment.

11. Hold Fun in High Regard

Entertainment also plays an important in boosting the morale of employee engagement.
Creative Social Intranet features such as BLOGS, Employee QUIZZES, Daily Quotes and tip of the day etc are good options for fun element.

12. Let Your Employees Focus on What They Do Best

Employee engagement is a vast construct that touches almost all parts of human resource management facets we know hitherto. If every part of human resources is not addressed in an appropriate manner, employees fail to fully engage themselves in their job in the response to such kind of mismanagement.

13.. Encourage Networking

Strong networking in multinationals leads to a strong and firm relationship between employer and employees, between employees and employees, between owners and customers.

15. Give Your Employees Visibility

Employees tend to be more loyal when the managers keep them informed about the key issues. Whether it is a major expansion or corporate merger in working the employee would prefer hearing it from you rather than hearing it from evening newscast.

16. Allow Time During the Day for Personal Enrichment & Development

Adhering to the brand values of Integrity, Accuracy, and Empathy, Creative Social Intranet always strives hard to make a difference in the lives of its customers.

17. Celebrate Your Staff: Birthdays, Accomplishments, etc.

Celebrating special days and making them important for the staff can work wonders and motivate employees in the best possible ways.

18. Take Your Team Out for Ice Cream

Occasionally boosting the staff by a simple gesture is important in today’s busy hectic life. Such as a small ice-cream treat, a get to gather at a coffee shop, lunch or dinner.

19. Let Employees Work in Other Departments on Occasion

Encourage independent thinking through giving them more job autonomy so that employees will have a chance to make their own freedom of choosing their own best way of doing their job and work experience in other departments as long as they are producing the expected result.

20. Hold Regular Brainstorming Sessions

Giving back to the society is embedded in the value system of Creative Social Intranet and we believe and aim higher to bring about a positive change in the nation.
Regular brainstorming sessions are a good way to assist and help in enhancing the focus of employees.

21. Hold an Awards Night

Have a strong feedback system: Companies should develop a performance management system which holds managers and employees accountable for the level of engagement they have shown.
Conducting a regular survey of employee engagement level and holding an award night to reward the winners helps to make out factors that make employees engaged.

22. Bring in Motivational Speakers Every Month / 3 Months

Enhance employee engagement through two-way communication: Managers should promote two-way communication. Employees are not sets of pots to which you pour out your ideas without giving them a chance to have a say on issues that matter to their job and life.

23. Have Occasional Photo or Video Contests

Creative Social Intranet has features such as Employee profile, MEDIA GALLERY, and its many features help connection between employees. Here they can upload photos, events, videos, etc