Thanks to all of our fellow Agents in Engagement for an amazing year! We are making an impact through our focus on employee engagement. As 2016 comes to a close, take some time to reflect on how you can better engage in 2017.
Engagement is a choice
“[O]ne important factor of engagement that most companies tend to overlook: Unless employees assume some measure of responsibility for their own engagement, the efforts of their organizations, leaders, managers and teams may have a limited effect on improving engagement.”1
To assist you in your reflection, review this curated list of previous Agent In Engagement posts.
- Proactively Manage Your Career with a Simple List
- The Importance of Networking in the Workplace
- When is Your Personal Fiscal Year?
- An Employee’s Guide: 6 Ways to Better Engagement in the Workplace
- The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
- The Engaging Questions
- 10 TED Talks Relevant to Employee Engagement
- Employee Engagement: Where to Start?
- An Employee’s Guide: 6 Ways to Better Engagement in the Workplace
- Employee Engagement: I Just Don’t Have Time for That!
- 3 Ways to Learn the Latest About Employee Engagement
Take some time to read these posts and think about how they apply to your situation. After you’ve identified some ways in which you can better engage, start by focusing on improving one thing within your power. Evaluate your progress after 30 days (January). Once you feel that you are making progress, slowly add another of the options you identified. Keep practicing and applying each of them until they are second nature. By the end of 2017, you’ll have established a new practice around employee engagement and you will have reaped the benefits all year!
Which of the Agent In Engagement posts was most interesting to you? In what ways will you better engage yourself in 2017?
1 Royal, Ken, and Susan Sorenson. “Employees Are Responsible for Their Engagement Too.” Gallup.com. Gallup, Inc., 16 June 2015. Web. 26 May 2016. <http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/183614/employees-responsible-engagement.aspx>.
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P.S. First contact? Welcome to the Agent In Engagement community. Explore and join fellow employee engagement operatives in targeting a known thief – alias: Disengagement. Together we can bring this thief to justice and make the world a better place for all companies and their employees.
Other recent Agent in Engagement data/reports by Agent Gregory F Simpson:
- Employee Engagement Intelligence Briefing: 2016.12.19 – 2016.12.23
- Veteran Operative Employee Engagement Insights: 2016.12.19- 2016.12.23
- Do You Treat Your Employees Like Dogs?
- Agent In Engagement Gives Thanks – Happy Thanksgiving 2016
- Did You Fall Down the Pyramid?
- Advice on How to Win in the Politics vs. Employee Engagement Campaign
- What Scary Creatures Haunt Your Workplace?
