Tip #462: 3 Steps For Motivating Disengaged Employees

According to the Bureau of National Affairs, businesses lose $11 billion each year due to employee turnover and loss of productivity. If you wish to avoid some of this financial burden, you must combat many issues with your employees. 

All Is Not Lost With A Disengaged Employee.

You can re-engage your employees by simply doing the following:

1. Build a fun, rewarding and challenging corporate culture.
2. Offer recognition for jobs that are well done.
3. Play into an employee's strengths

Two Other Ways To Engage Your Staff.

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Work On A Shift In Attitude 

 -If an employee feels that the organization supports his or her personal and professional goals, he or she is more likely to put in at least as much effort as the job requires.    

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Embrace Trust And Control 

 -If you give an employee more trust in their job function, you will make more employees become engaged in their work, job functions and changes in their overall mental health. As you do this, remember to:   

• Set specific expectations on projects but allow an employee to meet them in their own way.
• Reward someone who performs beyond your expectations.
• Know that each employee is motivated in a different way.
• Try coaching in place of criticism.

Other Suggestions If You Are A Leader Within Your Business.

We recommend that you listen closely to your team about what would be helpful to them in creating a more engaged place to work.  Additionally, make sure that you follow up on anything that you commit to do. Period. 

Read More About Our Employee Engagement Survey:

Dale Carnegie surveyed 1,500 employees and found demographic trends among those who felt disengaged:   

• Ages 31-39
• At an organization for less than a year
• Earning less than $50k per year
• Highly educated, often with postgraduate certifications

Executive Summary: Engaged employees increase productivity and create greater profits for a company. Not only that, engaged employees must feel motivated to work above and beyond what is required, and they will only do so if they are given the freedom to feel as though they positively impact the organization. 

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