Succeed Through Your Employees

According to Gallup daily, only 31.6% of employees are engaged at work. That's a pretty low number. Ok, it's a REALLY low number.

Engagement in the workplace revolves largely around your company's values. Are your values based on trust, cooperation and enthusiasm or is it the complete opposite? You can't reside somewhere in the middle because it is impossible to have more than one culture within your company.

Choose one. Choose wisely.

You should strive to have employees that cannot wait to come to work every morning. That level of enthusiasm alone is contagious to other employees, and it will show in the quality of work being produced. When employees are excited about the company, their job, their work and they are giving their absolute best, businesses thrive. Period.

It all starts with your investment in your employees. Are you making sure they are achieving greatness?

There are significant negative effects if you aren't.

1. Morale and loyalty will drop. As a result, employees will dread coming in each day, they will only do the bare minimum, and they will not produce the best results.
2. Turnovers will increase. Let's face it, nobody wants to work for bad management or a bad boss. Employees want to feel like a company has their best interests in mind too.
3. The company's reputation will falter. Good people will not only leave, good candidates won't want to work there.

What are some way you can avoid these negative effects?

1. Make your workplace somewhere employees can learn, grow, achieve and feel empowered.
2. Give them to tools, skills/training and knowledge to succeed.
3. Set clear expectations and boundaries and be consistent about it.
4. Stop being a fault finder. Help employees feel valued by praising them when they do a good job. A simple “thank you” or “nice work today” goes a really long way.
5. Without getting too personal you can show that you care about them and what is going on with them outside of the office.
6. Don't isolate. Keep the lines of communication open.

These are just some ideas. You know your company and its people better than anyone else. Just remember that direct contributions to the success of your employees will directly impact your company's bottom line.

What ways will you ensure your company's success through your employee's success?

Get creative.