Benefits of Engagement

Hello Doctor e here again and wanting to chat for a minute about the benefits of engagement. What do I mean by engagement? Whether it's staff, whether it's leadership, whether it's organizations as a whole. Why is engagement important? Well, two reasons why and here's why I will define engagement in this way. Engagement relates to the passion and the participation of whomever it is that you're involved with, whoever it is that you're leading. If you can make sure folks are passionate and participatory, chances are the engagement level is really high within your team, within your organization, within your community members, and so on and so forth.

So if you're looking for a definition of engagement or you're looking at ways around how to gauge engagement, find a way to measure your people's passion and their participation. Three reasons why I think engagement is important first of all, obviously the biggest reason is productivity. When folks are actually engaged, their productivity increases and jumps through the roof, not just from some of the quantitative aspects of what you do, but the qualitative aspects. Folks relate to one another better folks connect with one another a little bit better.

Folks are actually thinking about what ways to shift and change and contribute to the organization's not just bottom line, but culture as well. So productivity is a huge aspect. The second aspect is satisfaction. One of the biggest things that companies are really thinking about right now is retention. How do I keep the great folks that I have? How do I build upon the great strides that we've made in shifting and changing culture? A big reason behind that, or a big component of that, is satisfaction.

How loyal are folks to your organization, to you as a leader, to your culture? How satisfied are folks in their roles and the work that they do, and what are they looking for to increase that satisfaction? Great ways to really think about engagement is how satisfied are my people? How satisfied am I as a leader? How do I push? How do I nudge? How do I prod to make sure I'm doing some of those little things as well as the bigger things to keep folks satisfied and stay loyal to the company, to the team, to myself as a leader.

The last piece is involvement. How are you? How are folks connected to what you do? What are their attitudes around and about what you do? Are you creating space for innovation and allowing folks to be creative? Involvement is a great way to measure engagement. So if folks aren't really involved, chances are there are reasons why, cultural reasons why they aren't necessarily seeing or being connected. Attitude or morale might be low, not being as creative or innovative. So think about how involved are people within your teams and your organizations, where and how you can either shift or change or create more aspects and more ways for folks to become involved.

So when you think about engagement, passion and participation, great way to measure, great way to gauge. Three other things to keep in mind, productivity, satisfaction and involvement. So when you want to know are folks engaged, think about some of those areas, some of those criteria, some of those variables, and you will be able to look and see how engaged folks are within your organization. Doctor E. And I'll see you next time.