Did you know that studies show that only 30% of employees are engaged? Read the latest on employee engagement.
In Gallup’s latest survey of 1.4 million employees across 34 countries, some pretty surprising results emerged around employee engagement. Let’s liken it to a boat with 10 people in: The results stated that 3 were rowing, 5 were sitting doing nothing, and 2 were drilling holes in the bottom!
The impact on workplace performance is alarming – companies with an engaged workforce outperformed their competitors by 147%, with higher engagement affecting such factors as absenteeism, staff turnover, customer metrics, productivity and profitability. According to Gallup, there are 12 key considerations for measuring the level of employee engagement – mainly focused around expectations management, growth and recognition, and community.
An employee engagement programme affords you the opportunity to not only improve staff retention and morale, but also encourages innovation and identifies future leadership potential. It removes silo mentality and increases accountability, all of which clearly benefit organisational performance and leverage what for most organisations is their largest overhead.
How engaged are your team right now, and what would be the impact on your business’ performance of a highly engaged team?
The relief is that employees can become more engaged. Through certain processes and development you can build into your business you can develop a culture that increases employee engagement and performance. If you would like to find out more then be sure to review other helpful blogs on employee engagement in our blogs section.
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