
how to create a climate of engagement
When they did their research around the Power of Full Engagement, Loehr and Schwartz found that most people reported they are partly or largely disengaged at work. Gallup estimates a cost to US businesses in excess of $300 billion due to employee disengagement. Companies often rely on employee engagement surveys to guide their development efforts, but those efforts often miss important areas or don’t go far enough.
With so much at stake, how can you ensure that you are creating a climate of engagement for your employees? We gain some insight from Daniel Pink’s whiteboard animation video on Drive, where we learn that the 3 factors that lead to higher performance and personal satisfaction are autonomy, mastery, and purpose. In other words, people want to have some control over their job, be great at the work they do, and know that their work matters. The Harvard Business Review further synthesized the research and discovered that in order to create a climate of engagement, 4 basic needs must be met:
The need to acquire
The need to bond
The need to comprehend
The need to defend
We also tackled this topic in the chapter E is for Engagement, in The
To help you discover if your climate is currently meeting the needs required for engagement, download the engagement worksheet. You can also learn about other applications of the energy patterns with The ABCs of Energy-Based Leadership.
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Published on Jul 24 2013
Last Updated on Dec 11 2019
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