Our 6th President John Quincy Adams once said that if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Those are powerful words. Notice that he didn’t say dream or learn or do, he used the word "and". Another sign of a good leader is one who can create leaders. For any business, this is the first step toward creating a more valuable and sellable business.
Good leadership develops an engaged team. Today employee engagement is the new leadership. Employee Engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. Without developing engaged employees, you’re trying to move your business forward with an anchor hanging out the back.
How much is employee disengagement costing your organization? Here are 5 anchors of poor employee engagement that are costing your business growth, profitability, and your free time.
- Poor Employee Engagement Creates a “ME” Culture. Instead of working together towards the company’s common goals each employee is looking out for their own best interest. You hear “it’s not my job” a lot and you get a lot of finger pointing. They lose the perspective that when we work together as a team we all can achieve more: Together Everyone Achieves More.
- Poor Employee Engagement Creates Wasted Time When employees are not fully engaged they are not helping the company move forward. They are doing things the way they think is best instead of looking out for what is in the best interest of the organization and what you strategically decided is best. Without being focused on the company’s common goals, you get a lot of chaos and frustration which causes a lot of wasted time and money.
- Poor Employee Engagement Creates More Missed Work
When employees are working in an environment of chaos and frustration it takes toll on one’s personal energy and health. This additional stress causes us to not get to work on time, to take more breaks, to leave early or just take unplanned days off. This consistent interruption of work flow causes loss of productivity and profits - Poor Employee Engagement Creates Poor Quality of Work If your employees don’t have their heart into it, they lose focus, they make mistakes and quality of output suffers. The cost of this is enormous; loss of customers, wasting time doing work over, more overtime to cover the extra work involved, and increases in COGS. These are the small hidden holes in your business that is sinking your ship and you don’t even realize it.
- Poor Employee Engagement Creates Higher Employee Turnover Good employees are looking for worthwhile work.. They want to be part of something big. It’s hard to get motivated and engaged when you just feel that you are just a clog in a wheel. The way to keep good employees is not always about the money
You can’t train employee engagement but the first step is to determine how engaged your employees are.
Take our free employee engagement survey. We will send an anonymous survey to your employees and provide you with a free employee engagement report.
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If you would like to learn more about you too can get an "actionable" business education to improve your business's operations, sales,& bottom line contact ActionCOACH Steve Goranson at 904-739-0200. www.actioncoachjax.com
Steve Goranson has owned and operated the Northeast Florida of ActionCOACH since 2014. ActionCOACH is the World's #1 Coaching franchise with of 1000 offices in 50 different countries. They coach over 15,000 business each week.
Steve's commitment is to assist small business owners, to spend less time working "in" their business and more time working "on" their business so they can build a more valuable and sellable business. In the end, you’ll be spending less total time working, will be making more money and will have truly created the company and team you always dreamed of. In addition we will help you put the FUN back in your business and your life.
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The trick to winning the big game is to get all the players running in the same direction downfield. If not you don;t have a team. You have a gaggle.
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