When Gallup came out with its study on employee engagement, the statistic that caught our attention was: 70% of employees in the United States are either disengaged or actively disengaged which left us with the sad statistic that only 30% of our employees are engaged.
In their 2013 State of the American Workplace Report there is some very good news. According to Gallup, '..... the highest employee engagement level by far, 42%, was in companies with fewer than 10 employees.' If you are a small growing business you can relate to this. There is a certain amount of camaraderie that exists as you build a team. Conversations come easy. The work is new and exciting and people enjoy the challenge of 'figuring it out'.
As businesses grow beyond ten employees, yes, things get more complex and it's harder to keep a pulse on what is going on. Maintaining employee engagement should be an outright strategy that a business owner embraces. What worked when you were smaller? Write those attributes down. Talk about them. Communicate the magic of collaboration and make that formula a must for every new employee that comes on board as well as a training issue for new managers.
Because of the emphasis now put on 'employee engagement' (and rightly so) we should see that term becoming just as critical as 'emotional intelligence' has become and our training and our values should begin to reflect this critical thinking in all our organizations, no matter their size.
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