A lot of the operations and business outcome rely on how the management of a company deals and engage with their employees.
No matter how prominent or powerful a company may seem; without a proper employee engagement strategy, everything will turn sour and problems will take over. If you are a smart owner, you already know that it is a must to put light and give value to employee engagement. You should consider it and give focus on it as a part of achieving success for our business.
Failing to do this brings in unwanted consequences. Breaks employee-employer relations and takes away trust and loyalty which can also lead to misunderstanding. But first of all, you must recognize that employee engagement also includes knowing and considering your employees’ happiness. Your role on this is to be able to effectively and fairly manage and administer policies while they operate and work in your business.
Employee satisfaction, motivation or retention numbers are things that you should deal with. One of the main problems is caused by the owner’s mistake because of deciding not to attend to this matter on the right time. Most owners decide and think to delay providing solutions and addressing the matter until it’s too late because they think that when they let their employees become distressed and save them in the end, that’s when the employees would be thankful and would be more eager to work. This is wrong because dealing with employee engagement cannot be done overnight. So, deciding to wait can only bring in the worst until it is unsolvable anymore.
On the other hand, successful engagement program needs not only good leadership but also the rest of the entire management team to be actively involved, whether it is in educating program managers on the greater vision or guiding them on execution aspects and taking strategic calls. But, proper and effective means of communication is also important. Without it, the essence of great leadership vision and culture would be lost, watered down or misinterpreted as it passes down the levels of hierarchy. This is also the same with kick-off ideas and objectives which are not properly disseminated and instilled within the organization.
Functional Managers play a big role in employee engagement programs. Without them implementing and handling it, it would absolutely fail. The point is there should be a proper and effective organizational and operational functioning to give way to a successful employee engagement. This would also lead to the harmonious employee-employer relationship which is essential to a business.
This could be met by providing training to those who are in managerial positions and making sure that they are not only well-skilled but also they are equipped and capable of dealing with employees as well as their needs. It is also important that they know how to sympathize with their constituents. Making sure of these will make employee engagements completely successful. It only shows that everything about employee engagement starts with you as a company owner. So, now make your move.
